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Why Nasal High Flow Stands Apart
Nasal High Flow (NHF) therapy delivers benefits that go beyond conventional methods—offering dynamic airway pressure, reducing dead space, and ensuring optimal airway hydration. By heating and humidifying each breath, it preserves mucociliary function for both comfort and care. With mask-free support and reliable interfaces like Optiflow, NHF makes advanced respiratory therapy feel natural, effective, and seamless.
Nasal high flow confers benefits that conventional therapies cannot. It’s a significantly more sophisticated form of respiratory support that includes the provision of dynamic, positive airway pressure, and reduction of dead space. The airway hydration resulting from heating and humidifying the air is critical to facilitating comfortable treatment but is equally valuable in preserving mucociliary function. This is why it’s at the heart (or more accurately, lungs) of this therapy.
As with any treatment, patient comfort is a significant factor. One of the standout features of NHF is the level of respiratory support that can be achieved without the downsides of a mask.
Optiflow high flow interfaces
For high-flow therapy, you need a comfortable interface that stays in place to ensure continuity of treatment.
Tap to explore how each solution supports better breathing, without compromise.
Optimflow Duet TM nasal cannula interface
An Asymmetric TM interface
Optiflow 3S nasal cannula interface Side swappable, Separable headstrap.
Optiflow Junior 2 nasal cannula interface series Designed for neonates, infants, and children.
Optiflow+ Tracheostomy interface Optimal humidification for a bypassed airway.
How does Nasal High Flow work?
This short video explains the key mechanisms of action of high flow, driven by flow and humidification.
How is High Flow therapy?
Watch for an overview of what high flow therapy is and the benefits to your patients.
How NHF Pressure Shapes Every Breath
Dynamic, positive airway pressure increases alveolar ventilation. NHF creates breath and flow-dependent pressure, making inspiration easier and promoting slow, deep breathing on expiration, thereby increasing alveolar ventilation.
Understanding of Humidity
Humidity that is integral to Optiflow therapy enables the comfortable delivery of high flows of gas. Optimized humidity emulates the natural balance of heat and moisture in healthy lungs and may promote physiological stability in compromised airways.
Humidity…
- …prevents desiccation of the airway epithelium and…
- …maintains and improves mucociliary clearance/transport as illustrated in the animation.
- Image. Healthy cilia beating to remove debris (e.g., bacteria) from the airway.
Watch this effect in action.
Watch the effect of low humidity under a microscope (1 min – turn audio on). As the clip starts, you can see cilia beating. The dark spots moving across the left panel are debris (possibly bacteria) removed by effective mucociliary transport.Conversely, debris in the right low-humidity panel stops as cilia slow, the effect of low humidity. After just an hour at 90% RH, the mucosa has dried out.Do you need a refresher on how MCT works – watch this cool animation!
Dead Space Matters—Here’s Why
Dynamic, positive airway pressure increases alveolar ventilation. NHF creates breath and flow-dependent pressure, making inspiration easier and promoting slow, deep breathing on expiration, thereby increasing alveolar ventilation.
How dead space clearance improves oxygenation with just room air.
- Clearance of expired air in the upper airway
- Reduces rebreathing of air high in CO2 and depleted O2
- Increases alveolar ventilation
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This video depicts the clearance of a radioactive tracer from an upper airway model using Gamma camera imaging superimposed on a CT scan.
Flow rates were 15, 30, and 45 L/min.
In this experiment, as the flow rate increases, so does clearance.
This affect is flow dependent/
