Sentences with phrase «into airway»

In collapsing trachea the inner soft portion of the windpipe is sucked into the airway during inspiration - partially blocking it.

When the dog has to increase the effort to breathe, he or she will start to pull additional tissue into the airway, obstructing airflow even more.

Dogs with stenotic nares and / or elongated soft palates must exert extra effort to breathe, which can cause these saccules to turn outwards and be sucked into the airway, further obstructing air flow.

Everted laryngeal saccules look like blue - gray soft tissue masses protruding into the airway just in front of the vocal folds (Figure 4).

Intravenous induction drug is given through the catheter, with the minimum dose to allow the patient's jaw to open to place an endotracheal tube into the airway.

This excessively lengthened soft palate tissue extends back into the airway and obstructs the passage of air into the trachea.

Everted laryngeal saccules — these are pouches of tissue near the voicebox that can be sucked into the airway as the cat breathes.

For more severe cases, a device can help prevent the lower jaw from falling backwards into the airway, Dr. Somers says, or a face mask that delivers pressurized air into the nose (called continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP) can keep the airway open at night.

Once produced, NO is freely diffusible and enters target cells and into the airway and can be detected in exhaled breath of all humans.

«But what we've now shown is that RSV has an increased ability to cause airway obstruction because, during an RSV infection, the virus expresses a specific RSV - encoded non-structural protein, or NS2, in epithelial cells, causing the cells to shed from the airway lining and into the airway lumen.

The hospital staff had already inserted a breathing tube into his airway; throughout the flight we would have to pump air into his lungs manually, usinga device called an Ambu bag.

I was flung forward, my hand jerking up, and the tube, as if ofits own accord, slipped into place cleanly, right between the vocal cords anddown into the airway.

They found that infection of the narrowest airways of the lung by PIV3 alone caused moderate levels of inflammation, but after infection by PIV3 expressing RSV NS2, the epithelial cells lining the narrow airways were shed rapidly into the airway lumen.

If a child bites a balloon and takes a breath, he could suck it into his airway.

When we sleep on our backs, gravity forces the base of the tongue to collapse into the airway, which obstructs breathing and creates oh - so - pleasant snoring noises that keeps the neighbors up at night.

Using your fingers can easily push the balloon further back into the airway.

Don't try to use your fingers to dislodge the object because this could risk pushing it further into his airway.

This is due to aspiration, or when something accidentally gets into their airways or lungs.

There are a number of risks with the bedding, including getting into the airways and blocking them or wrapping around the limbs or neck.

«It's full of aerosolized bacteria, and you're sucking it deep into your airways.»

When permeability is compromised, proteins and nutrients can leak out of the lining and into the airways.

Chemokine receptor 4 plays a key role in T cell recruitment into the airways of asthmatic patients.

A new treatment, developed by Kimmel Cancer Center researchers, delivers radioactive «seeds» into the airways, extending life for inoperable lung cancer patients.

In some cases, the cat's lungs will discharge mucus into the airways, resulting in bouts of coughing and wheezing.

Cats that have eaten just prior to surgery can regurgitate food into their airways while under anesthesia.

Not exact matches

Just before it hits the nice soft carpet, it's necklace catches in the toe of daddy's foot, or some ornamental metalwork on your coffee table leg, or the edge of it's own big pull toy, or the corner of your audio system tweeter, or one of a million other things, and at that moment the necklace is jerked into the infant's larynx, crushing it, and closing the infant's airway.

Allergic reactions can be severe; you can go into shock or your airways can close so that you may suffocate.

Moist or cold air seem to help reduce the swelling of the airways, so the standard course of action is to take your child into a steamy bathroom for 15 to 20 minutes (turn on the hot water in the shower or bathtub and close the bathroom door) or out into the cold night air.

The doll could come loose, posing a suffocation hazard to the baby or the baby could get his / her face trapped against the soft doll pressed up into a crib slat or side and have his breathing airway restricted.

CPAP, or continuous positive airway pressure, delivers air into the upper airway at an optimal constant pressure for your child.

For example, older children are more squirmy and therefore more likely to wiggle themselves into a position where the straps on a carrier device could block their airway.

Doing this will minimize the chances of her inhaling vomit into her upper airway and lungs.

Continuous positive airway pressure; nasal prongs (short or long) provide a small amount of air, oxygen and pressure into the lungs to help the baby breathe on his / her own by keeping the lungs from collapsing.

A car seat is not an appropriate sleeping surface for a child once they are no longer riding in the car, as infants might move into a position that could cause injury or compromise their airway.

As children grow into these more mature postures, the structures in their throats begin to grow and spread apart and it becomes the main job of the epiglottis, a small flap in the back of the throat above the esophagus, to close off the airway and direct food into the esophagus.

Here is a little twist tie that was missed by the cleaning crew — that looks innocuous enough but that could go down into a young child's airway and cause a significant choking event so we need to pick this up and throw that away.

The muscles around his bronchi, the two slender airways that lead into the lungs, are tightening like boas...

But too many can move the immune system into overdrive, evoking coughing, airway constriction, mucus production and other asthma symptoms.

Flu vaccines are designed to prevent infection by eliciting antibodies against HA, which the virus uses to break into cells lining the airways.

Their approach, in which micro-liters of liquid containing a drug are instilled into the lung, distributed as a thin film in the predetermined region of the lung airway, and absorbed locally, may provide much more effective treatment of lung disease.

The tool that the scientists are about to test is known as a bronchoscope, a pencil - thin flexible tube that is fed down the airways and into the bronchi.

But now, a navigation system developed by SINTEF researchers and engineers and pulmonologists at St. Olav's Hospital provides the latter with three - dimensional images of the route into the patient's lungs and airways, in which the examination will take place.

Top series: Images show the elongated shape of cells transforming into a ball shape before they shed from the lining of the airway to cause obstruction, a key reason why RSV leads to bronchiolitis.

By turning the pathway off, she guided the immature lung cells into becoming airway cells.

Thwarting this shedding effect wouldn't stop infection or stifle the typical symptoms of RSV infection, but it might limit the virus's ability to spread into the tiniest airways, which are the most likely to be obstructed by cells shed during infection.

For people with moderate or severe OSA, doctors usually recommend using a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device, which consists of a small pump that delivers pressurised air into the nose through a mask, stopping the throat from closing.

When she was two, a sting put her into anaphylaxis, a severe reaction of the body's immune system that can include swelling, nausea and narrowing of the airways.

When a person with asthma comes into contact with something that irritates their sensitive airways it causes the body to react in several ways which can include wheezing, coughing and can make breathing more difficult.

Oral appliances and nasal continuous positive airway pressure (nCPAP) devices are mechanical apparatuses that act to prevent the tongue and soft palate from collapsing back into the upper airway.

One type fanned out into candelabra - like endings on the surface that lines the airways.