How to Use continuous positive airway pressure in a Sentence

continuous positive airway pressure

noun

• The treatment of choice for sleep apnea is the use of a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP.
  — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
• The device, known as a continuous positive airway pressure machine, pumps air through a mask to keep breathing passages open.
  — Emma Obregón Dominguez, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
• The leading therapy for apnea is the use of a CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) machine to force air into the throat, keeping the airway open.
  — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2020
• The most common is the continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machine, which keeps airways open during sleep.
  — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2023
• Among the most common and effective forms of treatment is a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device.
  — USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
• While continuous positive airway pressure machines help thousands of people, many thousands more are not helped by them.
  — Eric Kezirian, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2019
• This therapy, called continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, ensures that the brain gets enough oxygen.
  — Ronald Schouten, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2014
• If a sleep study reveals OSA, patients are typically treated with breathing devices such as a continuous positive airway pressure machine, which blasts a steady stream of air into the nose and mouth during sleep.
  — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
• The devices are called continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machines.
  — Matthew Perrone, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2022
• The only way mouth taping is useful is for sleep apnea patients being treated with a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine.
  — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 22 Sep. 2022
• Treatments often include bulky continuous positive airway pressure devices that pump air into a person's throat to keep their airway open.
  — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 15 Sep. 2017
• Of the 75 children analyzed in the study, four needed intensive care, with one child requiring continuous positive airway pressure.
  — Serena Coady, SELF, 21 Mar. 2022
• Despite smaller, lighter and quieter designs, as many as half of patients prescribed a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device to control sleep apnea stop using it within a year.
  — Lisa Marshall, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2016
• Traditionally the only way to prevent this would be to use a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machine, or a similar device.
  — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 27 Mar. 2018
• Many are treated successfully with continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machines that allow them to breathe by keeping their airways open.
  — Eric Kezirian, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2019
• Its manufacturer, ResMed, says the $700 device solely functions as a continuous positive airway pressure machine used to treat sleep apnea.
  — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 14 Apr. 2020
• These pillows are specially designed for people that use a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine.
  — Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping, 18 Feb. 2021
• Her parents use continuous positive airway pressure, known informally as a CPAP machine, as a preventative form of therapy on her lungs, her father said.
  — Faith Karimi, CNN, 31 Mar. 2021
• He was given a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine.
  — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 16 Feb. 2020
• If you’ve been diagnosed with obstructive sleep apnea, investing in a high quality CPAP machine—or a continuous positive airway pressure machine, for the uninitiated—is probably one of the first treatment options on your to-do list.
  — Sarah Bradley, Verywell Health, 23 Feb. 2023
• The doctors said that the most critical items needed were mechanical ventilators and continuous positive airway pressure machines, or CPAPs.
  — David Waldstein, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020
• Kramer hadn’t taken his snoring seriously until he was diagnosed with sleep apnea and began sleeping with a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine.
  — Sarah Gantz, Philly.com, 6 June 2018
• Most covid patients are now first given noninvasive respiratory support instead, such as high-flow nasal oxygen or continuous positive airway pressure, known as CPAP.
  — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
• Vang suffers from asthma and other respiratory problems and uses a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, sleep machine.
  — NBC News, 9 Apr. 2020
• With a diagnosis of sleep apnea, a patient is typically prescribed a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine.
  — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 24 Feb. 2020
• Its continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machines help people breathe consistently while sleeping.
  — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2023

Last Updated: 10 Oct 2024