BACKGROUND Domiciliary assisted ventilation, using negative or positive pressure devices, is an effective treatment for respiratory failure due to chest wall deformity and neuromuscular disease. Negative pressure ventilators have been used with some success in patients with chronic obstructive lung disease in hospital, but attempts to continue treatment at home have been disappointing. This stu...

submitted for oral presentation AUTOMATED RESPIRATORY CYCLES SELECTION IMPROVES THE VARIABILITY OF RESPIRATORY MECHANICS MONITORING. Vincent Rigo, Estelle Graas, Jacques Rigo 1 Neonatal intensive care, CHU and University of Liège, Belgium 2 Nomics sa, Liège, Belgium. Background: The variability of on-line respiratory mechanics (RM) data decreases its use as a tool to monitor ventilated infants....

Neural activity in the brain of parkinsonian patients is characterized by the intermittently synchronized oscillatory dynamics. This imperfect synchronization, observed in the beta frequency band, is believed to be related to the hypokinetic motor symptoms of the disorder. Our study explores potential mechanisms behind this intermittent synchrony. We study the response of a bursting pallidal ne...

provided the original work is properly cited. CC Bronchopleural fistula (BPF) is defined as a pathologic connection between the tracheobronchial tree and the pleural space with persistent air leak for more than 24 hours. It is associated with poor prognosis after pneumonectomy [1], which mainly contributes to the occurrence among elective lung resections despite the outstanding advances in surg...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the feasibility of negative extrathoracic pressure ventilation as a respiratory support following phrenic nerve palsy after cardiac surgery. DESIGN An uncontrolled pilot study. PATIENTS 14 patients aged one week to 30 months (median 5.3 months) with phrenic nerve palsy diagnosed by phrenic nerve conduction tests and diaphragmatic electromyograms. Four had bilateral ...