Abstract
AbstractCough is a protective respiratory reflex used to clear respiratory airway mucus. For patients with cough weakness, such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, neuromuscular weakness disease and other respiratory diseases, assisted coughing techniques are essential to help them clear mucus. In this study, the Eulerian wall film model was applied to simulate the coughing clearance process through a computational fluid dynamics methodology. Airway generation 0 to generation 2 based on realistic geometry is considered in this study. To quantify cough effectiveness, cough efficiency was calculated. Moreover, simulations of four different coughing techniques applied for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and neuromuscular weakness disease were conducted. The influences of mucus film thickness and mucus viscosity on cough efficiency were analyzed. From the simulation results, we found that with increasing mucus film thickness and decreasing mucus viscosity, cough efficiency improved accordingly. Assisted coughing technologies have little influence on the mucus clearance of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease models. Finally, it was observed that the cough efficiency of the mechanical insufflation-exsufflation technique (MIE) is more than 40 times the value of an unassisted coughing technique, which indicates that the MIE technology has a great effect on airway mucus clearance for neuromuscular weakness disease models.
Funder
National Natural Science Foundation of China
China Postdoctoral Science Foundation
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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