CPAP is an airway treatment of using gentle positive pressure
during inhalation to keep the upper air passages open, to increase
the volume of inspired air, and to decrease the work of breathing.
Review Date: 12/22/2010
Reviewed By: Harvey Simon, MD, Editor-in-Chief, Associate Professor of Medicine,
Harvard Medical School; Physician, Massachusetts General Hospital.
A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)
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