Decrease the flow setting to improve trans-nasal pulmonary aerosol delivery via "high-flow nasal cannula" to infants and toddlers.

Jie LiLingyue GongArzu AriJames B Fink

Published in: Pediatric pulmonology (2019)

Trans-nasal pulmonary aerosol delivery was significantly improved when gas flow was below patient's inspiratory flow, aerosol deposition increased with decreased nasal cannula flow, with greatest deposition at 0.25 L/kg/min.

Keyphrases

chronic rhinosinusitis
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case report