conclusions treatment of neonatal respiratory failure with high rate mechanical ventilation may reduce some complications. results intraventricular hemorrhage (ivh) and air leak (e.g. pneumothorax) were less in hfppv group than conventional group (p = 0.012 and p = 0.038). the mean time needed for mechanical ventilation was lower in hfppv group, but this difference was not statistically signifi...

background: paraquat poisoning is a medical emergency challenge due to its inherent severe toxicity and unavailability of specific antidote for it. in this paper, a series of patients who were treated according to a commonly used treatment flowchart are presented. methods: this prospective observational study was carried out on paraquat poisoned patients admitted to district hospital, chamaraja...

background: gastric lavage (gl) is one of the most commonly used decontamination method for cholinergic insecticide ingestion in developing countries despite lack of supporting evidence. this study was designed to evaluate the outcome of patients with cholinergic insecticide poisoning treated with gl in regards to timing and frequency of the procedure. methods: in this prospective observational...

respiratory failure is a serious complication of h1n1 influenza that, if not properly managed, can cause death. when mechanical ventilation is not effective, the only way to save the patient’s life is extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ecmo). a prolonged type of cardiopulmonary bypass, ecmo is a high-cost management modality compared to other conventional types and its maintenance requires sk...

BACKGROUND This study aimed to investigate the risk factors and outcome of critically ill cancer patients with postoperative acute respiratory insufficiency. METHODS The data of 190 critically ill cancer patients with postoperative acute respiratory insufficiency were retrospectively reviewed. The data of 321 patients with no acute respiratory insufficiency as controls were also collected. Cl...

objective we describe three patients with very severe spinal muscular atrophy (sma) presented with reduced fetal movement in utero, profound hypotonia, severe weakness and respiratory insufficiency at birth. in all infants, electrodiagnostic studies were compatible with a neurogenic pattern. in genetic studies, all cases had homozygous deletions of exons 7 and 8 of survival motor neuron (smn) a...

the case is 43 years old woman referred to emergency department of our hospital with quadriplegia and severe respiratory insufficiency due to c5-c6 injury after falling. she discharged from icu after fixation of the lesion and successful weaning. we evaluated electrical activity of diaphragm signal (edi), respiratory drive (p100) during one month period. we detected increase in level of electri...