PURPOSE OF REVIEW The aim of this article is to describe the physiologic utility, correlation with lung morphology, difficulties in interpretation and current clinical applications of static respiratory system pressure-volume curves at the bedside in patients with acute lung injury or acute respiratory distress syndrome. RECENT FINDINGS Complex interpretation of pressure-volume curves indicat...

BACKGROUND A number of individual risk factors for intimate partner violence (IPV) have been identified in Bangladesh. However, the etiology of IPV, intergenerational transmission, has never been tested in Bangladesh. OBJECTIVE We examined whether witnessing inter-parental physical violence (IPPV) was associated with IPV to identify whether IPV passes across generations in Bangladesh. METHO...

Pneumonia due to Mycoplasma pneumoniae is common, but it is rarely life-threatening. A case is reported in a previously healthy adult whose illness was severe enough to require treatment with intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV) for 14 days and which resolved after treatment with corticosteroids.

OBJECTIVES Evaluate the practice of providing enteral nutrition in critically ill children requiring noninvasive positive pressure ventilation. DESIGN Retrospective cohort study. SETTING PICU within a quaternary care children's hospital. PATIENTS PICU patients older than 30 days requiring noninvasive positive pressure ventilation for greater than or equal to 24 hours from August 2014 to J...

In this issue of RESPIRATORY CARE, Ball and colleagues1 determined the optimal nebulizer configurations and positions for aerosol delivery in vitro with and without CPAP. They determined that with continuous high-flow CPAP, the greatest amount of albuterol delivered to a lung simulator (13.8 4.4%) was when the nebulizer was placed proximal to the lung simulator. Without CPAP, they determined th...

We have investigated the effect of giving two 25 mg doses of dry surfactant powder to the airways of 10 preterm babies with severe idiopathic respiratory distress syndrome requiring intermittent positive pressure ventilation. No useful change in static total compliance or blood gases was seen. We conclude that dry surfactant powder does not have a role in the management of severe idiopathic res...