BACKGROUND Regional weaning centres provide cost effective care for patients who have undergone prolonged mechanical ventilation. There are few published European data on outcomes in these patients. METHODS Patients admitted for weaning to the Lane Fox Respiratory Unit (LFU) between January 1997 and December 2000 were identified. The proportion weaned from mechanical ventilation, in-hospital ...

BACKGROUND Mechanical ventilation is a life-saving intervention for critically ill newborn infants with respiratory failure admitted to a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). Ventilating newborn infants can be challenging due to small tidal volumes, high breathing frequencies, and the use of uncuffed endotracheal tubes. Mechanical ventilation has several short-term, as well as long-term complic...

Introduction Recent trends seem to point out that growing numbers of patients requiring prolonged mechanical ventilation (PMV) and protracted weaning after critical illness with eventually account for a large portion of all Intensive Care Unit (ICU) cost and bed occupancy. Specialized Weaning Unit (WU), may facilitate weaning through focused multidisciplinary expert team, but due to considerabl...

Complications of mechanical ventilation increase with duration. Delayed weaning and premature weaning are both associated with increasing complications. In addition, adverse events and deterioration relating to the ventilator system could happen any time. Therefore, accurate monitoring of the patient’s respiratory condition and adjustment of ventilator settings are essential during mechanical v...

OBJECTIVE Automatic Tube Compensation (ATC) is a newly developed mechanical ventilatory support method. The aim of this study was to compare the ATC and the T-piece as a weaning method. METHODS Patients who were treated in ICU with mechanical ventilation for longer than 24 hours were included in this prospective clinical study. Fifty patients were divided into two groups for weaning, ATC or T...

Growth efficiency-related traits are of economic importance for genetically improving of small ruminants especially in tropics with pastures of low quality and quantity. Data on body weights of Raeini Cashmere goat collected from 1979 to 2012 in Raeini breeding station, Kerman province, south-eastern part of Iran were used for estimating the genetic parameters of average daily gain from birth t...