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J Appl Physiol 67: 749-755, 1989;
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Journal of Applied Physiology, Vol 67, Issue 2 749-755, Copyright © 1989 by American Physiological Society

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Influence of upper airway negative pressure reflex on response to airway occlusion in sleeping infants

B. T. Thach, G. L. Schefft, D. L. Pickens and A. P. Menon
Edward Mallinckrodt Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital, Washington University School of Medicine, St. Louis, Missouri.

Artificially produced upper airway suction inhibits the diaphragm in animals and infants; however, the effects of spontaneously generated suction in humans are unknown. We studied nine tracheostomized infants because separation of the upper from the lower airway allowed us to channel suction created by an occluded inspiratory effort to both upper and lower airways (upper + lower airway occlusions) or to the lower airway only (lower airway occlusion). The tracheostomy airway was briefly occluded at end expiration during quiet sleep. In upper + lower airway occlusions, peak airway pressure of the first occluded breath was less negative and rate of pressure decrease slower than that of lower airway occlusions, indicating that upper airway suction inhibits thoracic inspiratory muscles. The threshold for this response was less than or equal to 4 cmH2O suction pressure. The effect on inspiratory time was variable. A decrease in slope of the inspiratory pressure waveform occurring at approximately 0.12 s after inspiration onset was more marked in upper + lower airway occlusions. We conclude that infants have an upper airway reflex response to inspiratory pressure that alters not only the peak and slope but also the shape of the inspiratory pressure waveform.


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