Knowledge of the fate and behaviour of the respiratory muscles during ventilatory support is important for the guidance of clinical care. Full support facilitates muscle metabolic repletion, but exposes them to the risk of disuse atrophy. The effect of partial support varies according to the selected mode: assisted mechanical ventilation (AMV) and synchronized intermittent mechanical ventilatio...

ABSTRACT: PC-ATOMIC is a PC interface for the ATOMIC LAN. PCATOMIC is implemented as a VL-Bus (VESA) short-form card for Intel i486 PCs, providing an interface for low-cost workstations to a 640 Mbps LAN. This document describes the PC-ATOMIC interface, its design, capabilities, and performance. The board design is public, and a small number of boards are available as government-furnished equip...

news. If you create conditions incompatible with life, the program lets you know your patient is dead, this is the MacMan equivalent of crashing your airplane in a flight simulator, and should this happen you merely start again, because there is no equivalent to reversing the program and resurrecting the dead. Some of the experiment options include: cutting the buffer nerves, resetting barorece...

STATEMENT OF FINDINGS: Varying concentrations of helium-oxygen (heliox) mixtures were evaluated in mechanically ventilated children with bronchiolitis. We hypothesized that, with an increase in the helium:oxygen ratio, and therefore a decrease in gas density, ventilation and oxygenation would improve in children with bronchiolitis. Ten patients, aged 1-9 months, were mechanically ventilated in ...