(1) A description has been given of the use of tracheostomy and IPPR in the treatment of twenty-five cases suffering from respiratory and circulatory complications after open-heart surgery. (2) In patients suffering from respiratory abnormalities, results were good. In those with a derangement of the circulation results were poor. However, it was concluded that therapy in this group is often ju...

BACKGROUND/AIM Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is considered to be the gold standard for laparoscopic surgical procedures. In ASA III patients with concomitant respiratory diseases, however, creation of pneumoperitoneum and the position of patients during surgery exert additional negative effect on intraoperative respiratory function, thus making a higher challenge for the anesthesiologist than fo...

systolic heart failure and concomitant diastolic dysfunction: subanalysis of a randomized controlled trial. Respiration 2014; 87: 54–62. 3 Fietze I, Blau A, Glos M, et al. Bi-level positive pressure ventilation and adaptive servo ventilation in patients with heart failure and Cheyne-Stokes respiration. Sleep Med 2008; 9: 652–659. 4 Kasai T, Usui Y, Yoshioka T, et al. Effect of flow-triggered ad...

It is not known how the angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitor and angiotensin II receptor blocker (ARB) attenuate heart failure (HF) in viable ischemic hearts. To assess HF in a rat coronary stenosis (CS) model, we administered vehicle and quinapril or candesartan (or both) orally for 12 wk. Compared with the sham group, the vehicle group showed impaired myocardial perfusion, impaired c...

In this paper, we propose a completely unconstrained method for automatic monitoring of sleep behaviour and health status in nursing home residents using an Internetbased automatic sleep monitoring system mainly composed of a pressure sensor and a data server. When a nursing home resident lies in bed, his/her pressure variations due to heart pulsation, respiration, and body movement are sensed ...

Anesthetized animals are awakened when subjected to increased atmospheric pressure. Whether all phenomena associated with the anesthetic state are similarly reversed is not known. Since the anesthetic halothane produces a dose-related reversible depression of rat liver mitochondrial respiration, the effect of 51 atmospheres of pressure on the drug's action was evaluated. It is concluded that ap...

The effects of normal respiration upon the heart, blood pressure, and peripheral circulation were studied in normotensive and hypertensive subjects. Changes of right and left ventricular output were measured by the ballistocardiogram and the pressure-pulse method of Remington, peripheral blood flow by plethysmographs. The central and peripheral changes were interrelated and evidence is presente...

The effect of O(2) partial pressure on the germination and the respiration of 12 cultivated species was studied. The reciprocal of the time necessary to observe rootlet emergence in 50% of the seeds was used to approach the germination rate. The maximum germination and respiration rates were reached in most seeds at O(2) pressures close to that of air. Decreasing the O(2) pressure produced a gr...

Objective: The aim of this study was to evaluate the heart and respiration rates, mean arterial pressure, temperature and peripheral oxygen saturation of low-weight preterm newborns, before and after the application of kangaroo mother care. Method: Twenty-two healthy low-weight preterm newborns of both sexes were studied. None of them had neurological, cardiac and/or respiratory deficiencies. A...

Actively growing Escherichia coli cells respond to increased osmotic pressure by increasing their internal pools of K+ (Epstein & Schultz, 1965) and of the amino acids glutamate, proline and a-aminobutyric acid (Britten & McClure, 1962; Measures, 1975). The change in amino acid pools may be brought about either by increased rates of their synthesis or by stimulation of the rate of their uptake....