... Canarias, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain2Department of Microbiology, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, La Laguna, Tenerife, Spain3Research Unit, Hospital Universitario de Canarias, La Laguna, ... causes cilia paralysis, celldamage, and decreased functional residual capacity, and atel-ectasis may develop.Artificial humidification of medicinal gases can be active orpassive. In active humidifiers, ... For statistical analyses we used SPSS 12.0.1 software(SPSS Inc., Chicago, IL, USA) and StatXact 5.0.3 software(Cyrus Mehta and Nitin Patel, Cambridge, MA, USA).Results A total of 120 patients...