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. 2009 Oct 20;103(6):886–890. doi: 10.1093/bja/aep280

Table 1.

Measurements from the 15 participants showing individual nasopharyngeal pressures (cm H2O) and mean nasopharyngeal pressures (cm H2O) with sd generated with NHF and facemask at 35 litre min−1 with the open mouth (NHFMO and FMMO) and closed mouth positions (NHFMC and FMMC)

Participant Mean nasopharyngeal pressure (cm H2O)
NHFMC NHFMO FMMC FMMO
1 1.7 1.6 1.3 0.3
2 2.7 1.7 1.3
3
4 1.5 0.9 −0.2 −0.5
5 1.6 0.2 −0.01 0.02
6 2.2 0.5 0.005 −0.01
7 3.4 2.1 0.02 0.06
8 2.7 1.6 −0.003 0.04
9 3.4 0.7 −0.09 0.02
10 2.2 0.9 0.02 −0.04
11 5.3 2.3 1.7 0.4
12 1.7 0.1 −0.5 0.02
13 2.5 2.4 0.6 −0.06
14 3.0 0.7 0.006 0.04
15 3.7 1.5 −0.1 0.03
Mean airway pressure at 35 litre min−1 2.7 1.2 0.2 0.1
sd 1.04 0.76 0.63 0.39