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Home Mechanical Ventilation in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Patients Is Not Always a Problem

2000

Peri-Partum respiratory management in neuro-muscular disorders (IT-NEUMA-Pregn study): A proposal by an italian panel and a call for an international…

2023

Advances in the management of patients with neuromuscu- lar diseases (NMDs) have improved patient survival1 3 with increasing pregnancies prevalence.4 NMDs have a broad spectrum of presentation and a subgroup of these women are at risk of developing pulmonary complications (PCs) mainly due to respiratory muscle weakness leading to hypoventilation and ineffective cough

Sequential use of noninvasive ventilation and high flow nasal therapy after early extubation in chest trauma patients recovering from acute hypoxaemi…

2022

Reducing Rebreathing During Noninvasive Ventilation: Bias Flow or No Bias Flow?

2019

To the Editor : We read with interest the article by Signori et al[1][1] that evaluated CO2 rebreathing during noninvasive ventilation (NIV) via a full face mask connected to a double-limb ventilation circuit with 2 different configurations: (1) a single mask connector directly attached to the Y-

Observation of ventilation-induced Spo(2) oscillations in pigs: first step to noninvasive detection of cyclic recruitment of atelectasis?

2010

High arterial partial oxygen pressure (Pao(2)) oscillations within the respiratory cycle were described recently in experimental acute lung injury. This phenomenon has been related to cyclic recruitment of atelectasis and varying pulmonary shunt fractions. Noninvasive detection of Spo(2) (oxygen saturation measured by pulse oximetry) as an indicator of cyclic collapse of atelectasis, instead of recording Pao(2) oscillations, could be of clinical interest in critical care. Spo(2) oscillations were recorded continuously in three different cases of lung damage to demonstrate the technical feasibility of this approach. To deduce Pao(2) from Spo(2), a mathematical model of the hemoglobin dissoci…

Noninvasive oscillatory ventilation (NHFOV) in infants: Another brick in the wall of paediatric noninvasive ventilation?

2016

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Material and Technology: Back to the Future for the Choice of Interface for Non-Invasive Ventilation – A Concise Review

2020

Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) has dramatically changed the treatment of both acute and chronic respiratory failure in the last 2 decades. The success of NIV is correlated to the application of the “best ingredients” of a patient’s “tailored recipe,” including the appropriate choice of the selected candidate, the ventilator setting, the interface, the expertise of the team, and the education of the caregiver. The choice of the interface is crucial for the success of NIV. Type (oral, nasal, nasal pillows, oronasal, hybrid mask, helmet), size, design, material and headgears may affect the patient’s comfort with respect to many aspects, such as air leaks, claustrophobia, skin erythema, eye irr…

Sympathetic activation in patients with heart failure and central sleep apnoea: is it friend or foe?

2023

This sub-study of the SERVE-HF study found unchanged peripheral nervous sympathetic activity (MSNA) in heart failure patients on medical treatment or on ASV after 12 weeks. Reduced MSNA was associated with worse prognosis only in the ASV group

Exploring the relevance and extent of small airways dysfunction in asthma (ATLANTIS): baseline data from a prospective cohort study

2019

BACKGROUND: Small airways dysfunction (SAD) is well recognised in asthma, yet its role in the severity and control of asthma is unclear. This study aimed to assess which combination of biomarkers, physiological tests, and imaging markers best measure the presence and extent of SAD in patients with asthma.METHODS: In this baseline assessment of a multinational prospective cohort study (the Assessment of Small Airways Involvement in Asthma [ATLANTIS] study), we recruited participants with and without asthma (defined as Global Initiative for Asthma severity stages 1-5) from general practices, the databases of chest physicians, and advertisements at 29 centres across nine countries (Brazil, Chi…

Bulbar impairment score and survival of stable amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patients after noninvasive ventilation initiation

2018

There is general agreement that noninvasive ventilation (NIV) prolongs survival in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and that the main cause of NIV failure is the severity of bulbar dysfunction. However, there is no evidence that bulbar impairment is a contraindication for NIV. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of bulbar impairment on survival in ALS patients with NIV. ALS patients for whom NIV was indicated were included. Those patients who refused NIV were taken as the control group. 120 patients who underwent NIV and 20 who refused NIV were included. The NIV group presented longer survival (median 18.50 months, 95% CI 12.62–24.38 months) than the no-NIV group (3.00 mont…