OBJECTIVE The study investigated the feasibility and potential outcome measures during acute hyperoxia in type 2 diabetes patients (DM2). METHODS Eleven DM2 patients (7 men and 4 women) were included in the study. The patients cycled (30 min at 20% Wmax) whilst breathing three different supplemental oxygen flows (SOF, 5, 10, 15 L min(-1)). During hyperoxic exercise, arterial blood gases and i...

The medical records of 27 patients with hantavirus pulmonary syndrome were analyzed according to the need for invasive mechanical ventilation in relation to the following data up on hospital admission: age, gender, fever, cough, dyspnea, systolic arterial blood pressure, heart rate, levels of hemoglobin, hematocrit, leukocytes, lymphocytes, platelets, creatinine and arterial blood gases. The vo...

The effect of standardized chest physiotherapy and hyperinflation on the blood gases of neonates being treated for tetanus by intermittent positive pressure respiration was investigated. It was found that physiotherapy and suction to remove secretions did not improve oxygen pressures but produced a small drop in both Paco., and Pao2. This was associated with a widening of the alveolar to arteri...

UNLABELLED A challenging aspect of managing patients on venoarterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (V-A ECMO) is a thorough understanding of the relationship between oxygenated blood from the ECMO circuit and blood being pumped from the patient's native heart. We present an adult V-A ECMO case report, which illustrates a unique encounter with the concept of "dual circulations." Despite bl...

Daily dose schedules of 100-200 mg of almitrine bismesylate improve arterial blood gases in patients with hypoxaemic chronic obstructive airways disease (COPD) but dose related side effects are evident. In the present study, daily doses approximately half of those previously used were employed in a randomised double blind manner in 85 patients (age 35-79 years) with hypoxaemic COPD. After a one...

Our patient was a baby boy born term by normal vaginal delivery, without any apparent external abnormality (Weight: 3Kg; Height: 50 cm; Head circumference: 35.5cm), to a 27 year old mother G2 P1, non consanguineous parents, pregnancy complicated by polyhydramnios, with an APGAR score of 0 and 8 at 1 and 5 minutes respectively. He was intubated and ventilated (difficult intubation). However, he ...

This study was supported by the Asthma Foundation of Western Australia and the TVW Telethon Foundation. Lee DA, W(inslow NR, Speight ANP, Hev EN. IPrevalence and spectrum of asthma in childhood. BrMed.7 1983;286:1258-60. 2 McFadden ER, Lvons HA. Arterial-blood gas tension in asthma. N' Et-ngI7 Mtled 1968;278: 1027-32. 3 Burki NK, Albert RK. Noninvasive monitoring of arterial blood gases: a repo...

OBJECTIVE To compare pH and PCO2 values of simultaneously obtained arterial, arterialized capillary, and venous blood samples and also to compare oxygen saturation (ASaO2) measured in arterial blood and oxygen saturation by pulse oximetry (PSaO2). METHODS Prospective study was done in the children admitted in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit of Christian Medical College Hospital Vellore, req...

Prolonged or intermittent asphyxia in utero and during farrowing weakens piglets and renders them less capable of adaptation to extrauterine life. Piglets with lesser viability at birth have increased blood pCO2 and blood lactic acid concentrations and decreased blood pH. Moreover, the ability to thermoregulate during an acute cold stress is inversely related to umbilical blood lactate concentr...