BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Blood pressure monitoring offers a limited understanding of the hemodynamic consequences of spinal anesthesia for cesarean delivery. The purpose of this study was to assess, with the aid of a non-invasive cardiac output monitor based on bioreactance, the hemodynamic changes during elective cesarean delivery under spinal anesthesia in which intermittent boluses of pheny...

leep apnea has an association with various cardiovascular diseases and generally, it is classified as either obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) or central sleep apnea (CSA). OSA is a well-known trigger of cardiovascular diseases, whereas CSA is associated with cardiac pathologies that could further worsen prognosis. CSA, rather than OSA, is common in patients with heart failure. However, OSA and CSA...

INTRODUCTION The use of a system for continuous control of endotracheal tube cuff pressure reduced the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) in one randomized controlled trial (RCT) with 112 patients but not in another RCT with 142 patients. In several guidelines on the prevention of VAP, the use of a system for continuous or intermittent control of endotracheal cuff pressure is no...

Robert Staruch is a Military Foundation Year 2 Doctor, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham; Steven Jeffery is a Consultant Burns and Plastic Surgeon, Royal Centre for Defence Medicine, The Queen Elizabeth Hospital, Birmingham. This paper was originally submitted in October, 2010 The role of topical negative pressure (TNP) in the closure of acute wounds has become a new and dynamic area of ...

BACKGROUND The effects of surgical pneumoperitoneum on lower-limb venous hemodynamics have already been studied; however, the effects of intermittent compression boots are not known in such venous-stasis conditions. METHODS In 12 volunteers and 12 patients, the venous hemodynamic effects of intermittent leg compression were studied under external abdominal pressure or during laparoscopic chol...

Turbulent flows display intermittent pressure drops associated with vorticity concentrations. Using wavelet transform, we characterize these low pressure events and study some of their statistical characteristics in a flow generated between the