Valsalva Experience

The Valsalva Experience is a common technique for conducting additional examination of the cardiovascular system using the passage of air through the mouth and nose. Such a procedure will help the doctor detect various problems in the lungs, bronchi, or in the heart itself. Most often, the procedure is performed during coughing and yawning, imitating these natural processes. Numerous benefits and harms can be identified from this problem.

How does the procedure work? On the day of the procedure, a specialist doctor carefully examines the patient. During this process, the specialist identifies pathologies that may cause additional symptoms. The patient's condition is monitored with a pulse oximeter. At the end of the procedure, the patient may feel a little nauseous due to the fact that he took a deep breath of air. The patient may be asked to take medication or drink a glass of water to neutralize the saliva. Then the specialist conducts an additional interview with a TB doctor.

The Valsalva experience is not a routine procedure. It can also only be performed safely by a specially trained anesthesiologist. Depending on the degree of need, patients are asked to take medication to begin this procedure, and the use of anesthetics may also be required. The duration of the procedure is about 15 minutes.

The positive consequences of using the Valsalva experience is the identification of pathological conditions of the bronchial mucosa. Bronchial asthma and obstructive bronchitis, pneumosclerosis and pneumonia are problems that doctors are increasingly encountering over time. Due to their frequency, the disease often causes the death of the patient, so some studies are carried out to exclude them. When examining the lungs, the most informative are radiographs and tomography. However, neither method shows with