Healthcare, Auckland, New Zealand) and set the NHF at FIO2 0.21 and the
flow rate at 40 L/min. We asked the participants to breathe five times in succession under
each of the following two situations: open mouth during NHF” (condition O) and “open mouth
while wearing surgical face mask during NHF” (condition OM) (
freely. We used large nasal cannulas for men and medium sized ones for women. The procedure
lasted approximately 30 min per person.
We calculated mean values by excluding the minimum and maximum values and
calculating the mean of the three remaining values.