Adjunctive therapy with a positive expiratory pressure (PEP) device may possibly decrease the length of hospital stays for patients with acute exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease ...

The device, PEP Buddy improves breathlessness symptoms and quality of life in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), as well as people who have anxiety and stress. Researchers at ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In more than 70% of patients with COPD, a positive expiratory pressure device improved exertional dyspnea. The ...

A common treatment for the breathlessness experienced by many people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) relies on the use of a positive-expiratory pressure (PEP) device, which sends ...

A large variety of airway clearance devices are commercially available, the two most recent being the Quake® and the Lung Flute®. The Quake is a pipe-shaped oscillatory PEP device that bears some ...

When NHS cystic fibrosis nurses spotted a UK firm's hands-free water bottle they had an inspired Eureka! moment - what if it could exercise patients' lungs too. EXCLUSIVE Article continues below ...

Features common to many of the studies included in these systematic reviews were poor study quality, small sample sizes and the presence of significant diversity across study samples. The potential ...