The primary objective of this book is to present recent research and development on continuous positive airway pressure cpap devices with particular focus on their use for the treatment of the most prevalent respiratory disorders obstructive sleep apnea osa and respiratory distress syndrome rds. The primary objective of this book is to present recent research and development on continuous positive airway pressure cpap devices with particular focus on their use for the treatment of the most prevalent respiratory disorders obstructive sleep apnea osa and respiratory distress syndrome rds. Medical devices for respiratory dysfunction principles and modeling of continuous positive airway along with more current techniques that use pressure oscillations in particular the bubble continuous positive airway pressure cpap system is elaborated on along with clinical studies from the literature that outline the benefits of its use to treat rds topics bubbles continuous . Medical devices for respiratory dysfunction principles and modeling of continuous positive airway pressure requirements of biological and medical device models performance criterion and a typical case study that applies the model of a bubble continuous positive airway pressure cpap device to lung models that represent lungs with respiratory distress syndrome rds to assess device . Medical devices for respiratory dysfunctions principles and modeling of continuous positive airway pressure cpap author ahmed al jumaily published on december 2011 ahmed al jumaily books amazonca