Abstract

The presence of spontaneous breathing (SB) activity may improve gas exchange during mechanical ventilation. Pressure support ventilation (PSV) is one of the most frequently used modes of assisted mechanical ventilation, but little is known about the mechanisms of improvement of lung function during PSV. To shed light into this issue, we evaluated the regional distribution of aeration and pulmonary blood flow (PBF) during controlled and assisted mechanical ventilation with PSV in experimental acute lung injury.

Highlights

  • The aim of this study was to elucidate the impact of ICU-acquired infection on ICU and hospital mortality

  • The goal from this study is to evaluate weaning predictor indexes in patients during weaning from mechanical ventilation (MV)

  • This study aims to evaluate the effects of the threshold in such situations

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Introduction

The aim of this study was to elucidate the impact of ICU-acquired infection on ICU and hospital mortality. Methods A total of 48 community patients (36 men, 11 women, age 50.17 ± 17.974 years, APACHE II score 13.51 ± 6.153) who were expected to stay in the ICU for >5 days were included in this study. Specific examples of feedback are as follows: ‘good update of management plan reinforces need for taking into account concurrent medication when resuscitating patients’, ‘nice simple messages with good starting points for trying to deal with these complicated patients’, ‘useful data on risk of recurrence as this is a question often asked by patients’ This feedback was encouraging as it showed how the primary care professionals planned to change their practice to improve patient outcomes as a result of the learning. The course was considered excellent by 63% of the participants and good by 36%

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