BACKGROUND Intermittent positive-pressure ventilation (IPPV) is the "gold standard" of ventilation during cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR), but continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) is increasingly discussed as an alternative. This study investigated hemodynamics and pulmonary gas exchange applying CPAP enhanced with pressure support ventilation (CPAP(PSV)) during CPR. METHODS AND RES...

Background: Application noninvasive ventilation in the patients with exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) reduced mortality. This case-control study was designed to compare efficiency and outcome of non-invasive (NIV) versus invasive positive pressure ventilation (IPPV) in respiratory failure due to COPD Methods: The patients were assigned to NIV or IPPV intermittantl...

BACKGROUND Application noninvasive ventilation in the patients with exacerbation of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) reduced mortality. This case-control study was designed to compare efficiency and outcome of non-invasive (NIV) versus invasive positive pressure ventilation (IPPV) in respiratory failure due to COPD. METHODS The patients were assigned to NIV or IPPV intermittantly....

OBJECTIVES The decision to provide mechanical ventilation (intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV)) to HIV-exposed infants in resource-poor settings has remained difficult owing to problems in confirming HIV infection and the lack of data on outcome. We evaluated the predictive value of the HIV antibody test in confirming infection in infants requiring mechanical ventilation for acute...

The study was designed to compare the frequency and severity of postoperative vomiting in paediatric out-patients receiving controlled ventilation (IPPV) or breathing spontaneously (SV) during anaesthesia for strabismus repair. One hundred and twenty unpremedicated children (ages 2-12 years) were studied in a randomized fashion. After intravenous induction of anaesthesia and tracheal intubation...

Conservative management of severe tetanus neonatorum is attended by a very high mortality (Tompkins, 1958; Wright, 1960a; Adams, Holloway, and Thambiran, 1964). Tracheostomy in addition to sedation has not been successful in preventing respiratory failure, which necessitated mechanical ventilation (IPPV) in about 90% of the patients described by Holloway (1967). Although IPPV has been shown to ...

Study objectives: To assess the gas exchange and hemodynamic effects of pressure-limited ventilation (PLV) strategies in acute lung injury (ALI). We hy¬ pothesized that in ALI, the reduction ofplateau airway pressure (Paw) would be associated with less alveolar overdistention and thus have better hemodynamic and gas exchange characteristics than larger tidal volume (Vt) ventilation. Setting: La...

The cardiovascular responses, ventilation and pulmonary gas exchanges of 8 treated and 6 untreated hypertensive patients were studied during artificial ventilation under nitrous oxide/oxygen/relaxant anaesthesia, with and without halothane (1%). Mean arterial pressure (m.a.p.) fell to 69% and 62% of the awake values in the treated and untreated patients respectively during hypocapnia (mean PaCO...

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...