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Research
Failure of non-invasive ventilation in patients with acute lung
injury: observational cohort study
Sameer Rana
1
, Hussam Jenad
1
, Peter C Gay
1
, Curtis F Buck
2
, Rolf D Hubmayr
1
and ... ventilator induced lung injury in intubated patients, confers
the same risk in patients receiving NIPPV. Alternatively, the
patients with metabolic acidosis...
... poorly aerated and nonaerated lung areas, which
appear in light gray and red, respectively, on image 2 in accordance with a color-encoding system included in Lungview. Normally aerated lung ... spiral CT
scans of the whole lung were performed at PEEPs of 15 and 0
cmH
2
O in 19 patients with acute lung injury or acute respiratory
distress syndrome. Alveolar derec...
...
and T
1
, suggesting that the
ventilatory strategy adopted by the patients during a T-piece
trial is not the main determinant of weaning success, as
described in more acutely ill patients [4]. No ... included
patients who initially failed a weaning trial and followed them
to the point of successful weaning. Compared with SW
patients, FW patients had greater total resistance,...
... although the
incidence of extrapyramidal AEs may vary among the
atypical antipsychotics [13]. Atypical long-acting antipsy-
chotic therapy, a relatively new treatment modality in
man y sys tems of care, ... of
schizophrenia by using a long-acting formulation of an antipsychotic:
clinical studies. J Clin Psychiatry 2003, 64(Suppl 16):34-40.
5. McEvoy JP: Risks versus benefits of...
... that
changes in metabolic parameters in patients treated with
antipsychotics may, in part, be genetically determined
[17].
MetS is characterized by the coincidence of hyperten-
sion, abdominal ob esity, ... treated with any antipsychotic medication,
though these may differ in grade and type according to
Table 8 Laboratory test: patients with values out of the laboratory...
... from nine healthy subjects, eleven
IPF patients and nine EP patients. We examined the
expression of 42 different cytokines in EBC using a cyto-
kine assay method. The cytokine and chemokine profil-
ing ... T,
Nakanishi M, Yamagata T, Minakata Y, Ichinose M: Airway cytokine
expression measured by means of protein array in exhaled breath
condensate: correlation with physiologic pr...
... Wetegrove S, Zinserling J,
Hoeft A, Putensen C: Kinetic and reversibility of mechanical
ventilation- associated pulmonary and systemic inflammatory
response in patients with acute lung injury. Intensive ... of lung injury.
The results suggest that the institution of a lung- protective
positive pressure ventilation strategy does not worsen the pre-
existing lung injury...
... treatment already
provided and for whom the possibility of surviving or
regaining an acceptable quality of life is nil. Withholding
and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment were
introduced to ... icularities.
Key messages
• Limitation of life-sustaining t reatment is a com-
mon phenom enon in the Greek ICUs studied. How-
ever, in most cases, it involves the withholding of
CPR...
... consequence, inspiratory
plateau airway pressure may increase inadvertently, exposing
the patient to ventilator-induced lung injury. If expiratory
washout is to be used clinically in the future, the software
synchronizing ... optimizing respiratory rate in patients with acute
respiratory failure /acute respiratory distress syndrome. The clinician
should increase respiratory rate...
...
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Commentary
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is devastating with catas-
trophic consequences. Early recognition of injury and
prompt delivery of focused care of the traumatic brain
injured ... brain
injury. Analyses were conducted in all patients and in
subgroups according to severity of traumatic brain injury.
e authors fou...