BACKGROUND The duration of postinspiratory pause prior to forced expiration may significantly influence the peak expiratory flow (PEF) measured during maximal forceful expirations. In comparison with maneuvers without a postinspiratory pause, maneuvers with 4 to 6-s pause at total lung capacity (TLC) result in decreased PEF values. The extent to which brief pauses (< 2 s) similarly affect PEF v...

OBJECTIVE To compare rates of nuisance alarms and disconnection between ionization and photoelectric smoke alarms. DESIGN A prospective cohort study. SETTING Four Inupiat Eskimo villages in the Northwest Arctic Borough region of Alaska, 48 km (30 mi) above the Arctic Circle. SUBJECTS Households in 4 communities with similar populations, number of homes, mean income, size of household, and...

Method: It was performed a cross-sectional study of 120 healthy pregnant women at low risk, including 77 primigravidae and 43 multigravidae. The PEF was measured by spirometry and the body composition by multisegmental electrical impedance. The unpaired t test was used to compare the groups and the Pearson correlation test was used to determine the association between PEF and independent variab...

the effects of pulsed electric field (pef) on the cell disintegration of sugar beet were studied. field strength (0.5kv/cm to 6kv/cm), pulse number (1 to 100 pulses) and capacity of capacitors (0.5 f to 32 f) were evaluated on degree of cell disintegration and consumed energy in pef treatment. the field conditions of 1 and 2 kv/cm, 8 f with 20 and 10 pulses respectively disintegrated the cel...

Pulsed electric field (PEF) and mild thermal pretreatments at 60 °C (T60) may help preserve texture of plant tissue during processing through pectin modification. However, potato starch counteract the adhesive role processing. Furthermore, postharvest storage potatoes result in compositional textural changes. Therefore, effect on composition untreated, PEF treated thermally was studied. The rem...

The kiwifruit processing industry is focused on product yield maximization and keeping energy costs waste effluents to a minimum while maintaining high quality. In our study, pulsed electric field (PEF) pretreatment enhanced facilitate peelability specific peeling process valorization of waste. PEF optimization was applied obtain the best treatment parameters. A 32 factorial design response sur...

BACKGROUND The patients with extremely severe spinal deformity are commonly considered high-risk candidates for surgical treatment because of their underlying lung disease. Currently, little has been reported about the postoperative pulmonary complication events in this population. This retrospective study sought to evaluate preoperative pulmonary function tests in the surgical treatment of ext...

Electroporation is a phenomenon occurring due to exposure of cells to Pulsed Electric Fields (PEF) which leads to increase of membrane permeability. Electroporation is used in medicine, biotechnology, and food processing. Recently, as an alternative to electroporation by PEF, Pulsed ElectroMagnetic Fields (PEMF) application causing similar biological effects was suggested. Since induced electri...

INTRODUCTION Preoperative evaluation of a patient is the fundamental component of anaesthetic practice. Inadequate documentation and record keeping on the preoperative evaluation form (PEF) can be a major obstacle to attaining good practice and improving patient outcomes following operative procedures. AIM The aim of the study was to conduct an audit to assess the quality of the preoperative ...

Pulmonary function loss in patients with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is progressive and leads to pulmonary insufficiency. The purpose of this study in 10-18 year old patients with DMD is the assessment of the inter-correlation between pulmonary function tests (PFTs), their reliability and the association with the general disease stage measured by the Brooke score. Dynamic PFTs (peak expir...