CONTEXT: The outcome of patients receiving mechanical ventilation for particular indications has been studied, but the outcome in a large number of unselected, heterogeneous patients has not been reported. OBJECTIVE: To determine the survival of patients receiving mechanical ventilation and the relative importance of factors influencing survival. DESIGN, SETTING, AND SUBJECTS: Prospective cohor...

provided the original work is properly cited. CC A robotic system is gaining popularity because the tool can overcome the disadvantages of conventional laparoscopic surgery. However, robotic surgery also requires pneumoperitoneum with carbon dioxide, just as in conventional laparoscopic surgery, which can causes various complications, such as air embolism, hypercapnia, subcutaneous emphysema, p...

Objective : We aimed to examine the effect of different intervals end tidal CO2 ( etCO2 ) values on hemodynamics and surgery in endoscopic endonasal transsphenoidal pituitary surgery. Material Methods: Two groups were evaluated retrospectively according maximum at time sellar resection. Group 1: 21 patients, etCO 2 =25-37 mmHg 2: 2=38-50 mmHg. The demographic characteristics, mean arterial pres...

Exacerbation of COVID-19 pandemic may lead to acute shortage ventilators, which require shared use ventilator as a lifesaving concept. Two model lungs were ventilated with one i) test the adequacy individual tidal volumes via capnography, ii) assess cross-breathing between lungs, and iii) offer simulation-based algorithm for ensuring equal volumes. Ventilation asymmetry was induced by placing r...

BACKGROUND Ventilator management for children with hypoxemic respiratory failure may benefit from ventilator protocols, which rely on blood gases. Accurate noninvasive estimates for pH or P(aCO2) could allow frequent ventilator changes to optimize lung-protective ventilation strategies. If these models are highly accurate, they can facilitate the development of closed-loop ventilator systems. W...

BACKGROUND To determine the sensitivity and specificity of the self-inflating bulb (SIB) to verify tracheal intubation in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients. METHODS Sixty-five consecutive adult patients with out-of-hospital cardiac arrest were enrolled. Patients were provided chest compression and ventilation by either ba-valve-mask or the esophageal tracheal double-lumen airway by ambu...

INTRODUCTION The incidence of respiratory depression in patients who are chemically sedated in the emergency department (ED) is not well understood. As the drugs used for chemical restraint are respiratory depressants, improving respiratory monitoring practice in the ED may be warranted. The objective of this study is to describe the incidence of respiratory depression in patients chemically se...

ABSTRACT The metabolic peculiarities of felines favor an intoxication. Fifty healthy female cats were divided into five groups: PG (placebo group), G2 (cefazolin), G3 (ceftriaxone), G4 (enrofloxacin) and G5 (ampicillin) used. parameters evaluated were: total expired carbon dioxide (ETCO2), oxygen saturation in hemoglobin (SpO2), heart rate (HR), respiratory (RR), body temperature (BT), systolic...

Ictal hypoxemia has been reported in small series of cases and may contribute to sudden unexpected death in epilepsy (SUDEP). We sought to determine the incidence and severity of ictal hypoxemia in patients with localization-related epilepsy undergoing in-patient video-EEG telemetry. We examined whether seizure-associated oxygen desaturation was a consequence of hypoventilation and whether fact...

BACKGROUND Cerebral blood flow velocity (CBFV) and sleep physiology in healthy children exposed to hypoxia and hypocarbia are under-researched. AIM To investigate associations between sleep variables, daytime end-tidal carbon dioxide (EtCO2) and CBFV in children during high-altitude ascent. METHODS Vital signs, overnight cardiorespiratory sleep studies and transcranial Doppler were undertak...