Feasibility of a Modified Positive Airway Pressure Device to Treat Sleep Disordered Breathing

Exclusion Criteria

• •Recent cardiac or respiratory arrest
• •Gastro intestinal bleeding, ileus or recent gastrointestinal surgery
• •Coma, decreased level of consciousness or agitation
• •Anatomical or subjective difficulty with airway access e.g. facial surgery, trauma, vomiting upper airway obstruction
• •Cerebrospinal fluid leak, abnormalities of the cribiform plate or prior history of head trauma.