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New organisation for follow-up and assessment of treatment efficacy in sleep apnoea.

2019

Obstructive sleep apnoea (OSA) is a highly prevalent disease, and there is an increased demand for OSA diagnosis and treatment. However, resources are limited compared with the growing needs for OSA diagnosis and management, and alternative strategies need to be developed to optimise the OSA clinical pathway. In this review, we propose a management strategy for OSA, and in general for sleep-disordered breathing, to be implemented from diagnosis to follow-up. For this purpose, the best current options seem to be: 1) networking at different levels of care, from primary physicians to specialised sleep laboratories; and 2) use of telemedicine. Telemedicine can contribute to the improved cost-ef…

Patient-Ventilator Asynchronies: Clinical Implications and Practical Solutions

2020

Mechanical ventilation is a supportive treatment commonly applied in critically ill patients. Whenever the patient is spontaneously breathing, the pressure applied to the respiratory system depends on the sum of the pressure generated by the respiratory muscles and the pressure generated by the ventilator. Patient-ventilator interaction is of utmost importance in spontaneously breathing patients, and thus the ventilator should be able to adapt to patient's changes in ventilatory demand and respiratory mechanics. Nevertheless, a lack of coordination between patient and ventilator due to a mismatch between neural and ventilator timing throughout the respiratory cycle may make weaning difficul…

Prevalence and risk factors for delirium in critically ill patients with COVID-19 (COVID-D): a multicentre cohort study

2021

Background: To date, 750 000 patients with COVID-19 worldwide have required mechanical ventilation and thus are at high risk of acute brain dysfunction (coma and delirium). We aimed to investigate the prevalence of delirium and coma, and risk factors for delirium in critically ill patients with COVID-19, to aid the development of strategies to mitigate delirium and associated sequelae. Methods: This multicentre cohort study included 69 adult intensive care units (ICUs), across 14 countries. We included all patients (aged ≥18 years) admitted to participating ICUs with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection before April 28, 2020. Patients who were moribund or had life-suppo…

Linear extension operators on products of compact spaces

2003

Abstract Let X and Y be the Alexandroff compactifications of the locally compact spaces X and Y , respectively. Denote by Σ( X × Y ) the space of all linear extension operators from C(( X × Y )⧹(X×Y)) to C(( X × Y )) . We prove that X and Y are σ -compact spaces if and only if there exists a T∈Σ( X × Y ) with ‖ T ‖ Γ∈Σ( X × Y ) with ‖ Γ ‖=1. Assuming the existence of a T∈Σ( X × Y ) with ‖ T ‖ X and Y is equivalent to the fact that ‖ Γ ‖⩾2 for every Γ∈Σ( X × Y ) .

Sylow subgroups and the number of conjugacy classes of p-elements

2004

Virtual and arrow Temperley–Lieb algebras, Markov traces, and virtual link invariants

2021

Let [Formula: see text] be the algebra of Laurent polynomials in the variable [Formula: see text] and let [Formula: see text] be the algebra of Laurent polynomials in the variable [Formula: see text] and standard polynomials in the variables [Formula: see text] For [Formula: see text] we denote by [Formula: see text] the virtual braid group on [Formula: see text] strands. We define two towers of algebras [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] in terms of diagrams. For each [Formula: see text] we determine presentations for both, [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text]. We determine sequences of homomorphisms [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text], we determine Markov traces […

Special arrangements of lines: Codimension 2 ACM varieties in P 1 × P 1 × P 1

2019

In this paper, we investigate special arrangements of lines in multiprojective spaces. In particular, we characterize codimension 2 arithmetically Cohen–Macaulay (ACM) varieties in [Formula: see text], called varieties of lines. We also describe their ACM property from a combinatorial algebra point of view.

Local Spectral Theory for R and S Satisfying RnSRn = Rj

2020

In this paper, we analyze local spectral properties of operators R,S and RS which satisfy the operator equations RnSRn=Rj and SnRSn=Sj for same integers j&ge

Banach spaces which are r-uniformly noncreasy

2003

Abstract We consider a family of spaces wider than UNC spaces introduced by Prus, and we give some fixed point results in the setting of these spaces.

A min-max principle for non-differentiable functions with a weak compactness condition

2009

A general critical point result established by Ghoussoub is extended to the case of locally Lipschitz continuous functions satisfying a weak Palais-Smale hypothesis, which includes the so-called non-smooth Cerami condition. Some special cases are then pointed out.