BACKGROUND: The intermittent intrapulmonary deflation (IID) technique is a new airway clearance strategy that produces a succession of very short air depressions in the bronchial tree. In patients with bronchial hypersecretion,the IID aims to decrease viscoelastic properties of sputum and to increase the rate of sputum clearance. [...]
Ribeiro Fonseca Franco de Macedo, J., Reychler, G., Liistro, G., & Poncin, W. (2022). Effects of the intermittent intrapulmonary deflation technique on airway clearance in patients with cystic fibrosis. The European Respiratory Journal, 60(Suppl 66), 2753. https://doi.org/10.1183/13993003.congress-2022.2753 (Original work published 2022)