Results: the Professional Group individuals presented higher occurrence of roughness than Students Group; higher occurrence of use professional voice when are flu, in inadequate respiration and inadequate corporal postures, screaming and remain in place with mold or poor ventilation, closed and dusty, and to perform testing in different place of the show. The habit of drinking cold was higher i...

Facilitation of early spontaneous breathing activity is the most important measure to shorten weaning and avoid ventilator-induced lung injury and diaphragmatic injury in mechanically ventilated patients. However, the optimal degree of spontaneous muscle activity and ventilator support remains to be determined. Furthermore, effectiveness in relation to the pathophysiology of respiratory failure...

Background This prototype, self navigated, free breathing 3D sequence acquires continuous ECG-segmented radial views of the heart with 100% scan efficiency, without a beam-navigator, and without the time expense of scanning within a range of diaphragmatic positions. The reconstructed image is respiratory motion corrected based on the inferior-superior motion of the left ventricular blood pool. ...

Because of metastatic pain resistant to medical treatment after left pneumonectomy for squamous cell carcinoma, a 46-year-old patient underwent a bilateral cervical cordotomy at the C1-C2 anterolateral level, in two phases. The second intervention was followed by severe ventilatory problems requiring mechanical ventilation, and at a later stage, the implantation of a phrenic pacemaker on the ri...

STUDY OBJECTIVES To evaluate the effects of spontaneous breathing at ambient airway pressure (Paw) and during airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) on respiratory work and respiratory muscle blood flow (RMBF) in experimental lung injury. DESIGN Prospective experimental study. SETTING Research laboratory of a university hospital. SUBJECTS Twelve hemodynamically stable, analgosedated, ...

BACKGROUND A study was undertaken to investigate the effects of non-invasive assist-control ventilation (ACV) by nasal mask on respiratory physiological parameters and comfort in acute on chronic respiratory failure (ACRF). METHODS Fifteen patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were prospectively and randomly assigned to two non-invasive ventilation (NIV) sequences in spon...

Diaphragm fatigue may contribute to respiratory failure. (31)P-nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy is a useful tool to assess energetic changes within the diaphragm during fatigue, as indicated by P(i) accumulation and phosphocreatine (PCr) depletion. We hypothesized that loaded breathing during hypoxia would lead to diaphragm fatigue and inadequate aerobic metabolism. Seven piglets were an...