Muffy Invented CPAP!

Actually, she didn't, she's merely trying to clear up some of the disinformation presently being tossed around out there.

The concept was first presented in 1936:



long before the person commonly referred to as "The Father of CPAP" started early "dial wingin'".

Also, "bubble" CPAP generators should not be considered as being able to provide xPAP therapy in the home setting. They were (and still are) used to treat neonates.

Muffy

Muffy wrote:The concept was first presented in 1936

Hi Muffy, FWIW, the reference in that slide has an error - should be volume 228 not 231. Cheers,

Thanks bb.

Next, we have the find the article where they were using bubble-CPAP generators. Data was presented in 1971 in

Gregory GA, Kitterman JA, Phibbs RH, et al. Treatment of idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome with continuous positive airway pressure. N Engl J Med 1971;284:1333.

Muffy

Muffy wrote:The concept was first presented in 1936 (again)

Here's an interesting text I came across:
"In 1936, Poulton and Oxon described their “pulmonary plus pressure machine,” which used a vacuum cleaner blower and a mask to increase the alveolar pressure and thus counteract the increased intrapulmonary pressure in patients with heart failure, pulmonary edema, Cheyne-Stokes breathing, and asthma." (Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine May 2010 vol. 77 5 307-316). Cheers,

Muffy wrote:Next, we have the find the article where they were using bubble-CPAP generators. Data was presented in 1971 in Gregory GA, Kitterman JA, Phibbs RH, et al. Treatment of idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome with continuous positive airway pressure. N Engl J Med 1971;284:1333.

"The...CPAP circuit (i.e. bubbling CPAP) depicted in this article was first described by Gregory et al. (i.e. ref you have given above) and has been used all around the world" INDIAN PEDIATRICS 45 (2008) 942. I couldn't find anything else just now. Must attend to my sleep hygiene. Cheers,

Yup, the most common misconception is that CPAP is a type of machine, it is actually a mode of ventilation. Mr. D who has been granted the title of "The Father of CPAP", did not actually invent CPAP, he MAY have been the inventor of the "Home" CPAP machine, however that is debatable as well.

Thankg, guys!!!

Muffy wrote:

3CP0 STUDY?

Whadda ya know!!! A golden Tin Man! Right outta the new Wizard of Oz. And here I thought Dr Sullivan was the real wizard of Oz. *sigh* I'ze gettin' my eddykashun in these posts.

Slinky wrote:Whadda ya know!!! A golden Tin Man! Right outta the new Wizard of Oz. And here I thought Dr Sullivan was the real wizard of Oz. *sigh* I'ze gettin' my eddykashun in these posts.

Best not to take any claims from golden dyslexic tin men seriously.

LMAO .

okay - where is the R2D2 study?

Oh Muffy, you're getting behind.

We need more cupcakes (gluten free please).

jules wrote:okay - where is the R2D2 study?

Oh Muffy, you're getting behind.

We need more cupcakes (gluten free please).

I heard her say in the thread in contention for MOAT status, that she was going to the salon about her hirs...umm...hirsu...hairiness. Someone's going to have to explain to her that ladies do not frequent barber shops.

Now this is a hoot!

Dr. Victor Chernick in Pediatrics Vol. 52 No. 1 back in July 1973 said:

The report of Gregory et al. at the May 1970 meeting of the Society for Pediatric Research on six infants with severe hyaline membrane disease treated with continuous positive airway pressure now seems ancient history.

http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/c ... t/52/1/114

Muffy

I don't think the question is, ''Who invented pressure?' or, 'Who invented air?' or, 'Who invented breathing?' or, 'Who invented machines?' or anything like that. It seems to me that the question has to be: "Who first scientifically documented the application of pressure to the airway during sleep to stint it open as a medical treatment for sleep-disordered breathing in the form of obstructive sleep apnea?" But maybe that is just a type of medical-machine-chronology gerrymandering, or something. I should have been a patent lawyer! (Except, of course, that I don't know anything about patents, medical machines, or the law. But other than that . . . !)

jeff