How to Use continuous positive airway pressure in a Sentence

continuous positive airway pressure

noun
  • The device, known as a continuous positive airway pressure machine, pumps air through a mask to keep breathing passages open.
    — Emma Obregón Dominguez, BostonGlobe.com, 7 July 2023
  • While continuous positive airway pressure machines help thousands of people, many thousands more are not helped by them.
    — Eric Kezirian, The Conversation, 28 Oct. 2019
  • Treatments often include bulky continuous positive airway pressure devices that pump air into a person's throat to keep their airway open.
    — Ben Panko, Smithsonian, 15 Sep. 2017
  • The treatment of choice for sleep apnea is the use of a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP.
    — Sandee Lamotte, CNN, 17 Feb. 2022
  • Of the 75 children analyzed in the study, four needed intensive care, with one child requiring continuous positive airway pressure.
    — Serena Coady, SELF, 21 Mar. 2022
  • The most common is the continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machine, which keeps airways open during sleep.
    — Linda Carroll, NBC News, 6 Apr. 2023
  • This therapy, called continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, ensures that the brain gets enough oxygen.
    — Ronald Schouten, Discover Magazine, 7 Apr. 2014
  • The devices are called continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machines.
    — Matthew Perrone, BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2022
  • The devices are called continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machines.
    — CBS News, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Among the most common and effective forms of treatment is a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device.
    — USA TODAY, 29 June 2023
  • The standard treatment for sleep apnea is continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, which prevents airway collapse with a stream of air through the mouth or nose.
    — Erika Yamazaki, The Conversation, 6 May 2026
  • He was given a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine.
    — Orion Sang, Detroit Free Press, 16 Feb. 2020
  • The use of a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device is the most common and usually the most effective treatment.
    — Fran Kritz, Verywell Health, 15 July 2024
  • The leading therapy for apnea is the use of a CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure) machine to force air into the throat, keeping the airway open.
    — Claudia Wallis, Scientific American, 29 Mar. 2020
  • The only way mouth taping is useful is for sleep apnea patients being treated with a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine.
    — Erica Sweeney, Men's Health, 22 Sep. 2022
  • It’s often used as an alternative to continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP), which some people find hard to tolerate.
    — New Atlas, 13 Oct. 2025
  • These pillows are specially designed for people that use a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine.
    — Jamie Kim, Good Housekeeping, 18 Feb. 2021
  • If a sleep study reveals OSA, patients are typically treated with breathing devices such as a continuous positive airway pressure machine, which blasts a steady stream of air into the nose and mouth during sleep.
    — Washington Post, 22 Oct. 2021
  • Traditionally the only way to prevent this would be to use a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machine, or a similar device.
    — Shari Rudavsky, Indianapolis Star, 27 Mar. 2018
  • That’s at least in part because the primary treatment for the disorder–a continuous positive airway pressure machine, or CPAP, that forces air down a wearer’s throat–is hated by most who use it.
    — Amy Feldman, Forbes.com, 20 May 2026
  • Its manufacturer, ResMed, says the $700 device solely functions as a continuous positive airway pressure machine used to treat sleep apnea.
    — Dan Goodin, Ars Technica, 14 Apr. 2020
  • Its continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, machines help people breathe consistently while sleeping.
    — Natallie Rocha, San Diego Union-Tribune, 5 Dec. 2023
  • Her parents use continuous positive airway pressure, known informally as a CPAP machine, as a preventative form of therapy on her lungs, her father said.
    — Faith Karimi, CNN, 31 Mar. 2021
  • Despite smaller, lighter and quieter designs, as many as half of patients prescribed a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) device to control sleep apnea stop using it within a year.
    — Lisa Marshall, Discover Magazine, 31 May 2016
  • Vang suffers from asthma and other respiratory problems and uses a continuous positive airway pressure, or CPAP, sleep machine.
    — NBC News, 9 Apr. 2020
  • The standard therapy, called CPAP (continuous positive airway pressure), which uses a machine to keep airways open, can be cumbersome and hard to stick with, but most patients can adjust over time, experts said.
    — Karen Weintraub, USA TODAY, 29 Jan. 2024
  • Most covid patients are now first given noninvasive respiratory support instead, such as high-flow nasal oxygen or continuous positive airway pressure, known as CPAP.
    — Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Kramer hadn’t taken his snoring seriously until he was diagnosed with sleep apnea and began sleeping with a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine.
    — Sarah Gantz, Philly.com, 6 June 2018
  • With a diagnosis of sleep apnea, a patient is typically prescribed a continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) machine.
    — Sig Christenson, ExpressNews.com, 24 Feb. 2020
  • The doctors said that the most critical items needed were mechanical ventilators and continuous positive airway pressure machines, or CPAPs.
    — David Waldstein, New York Times, 7 Apr. 2020

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