Ventilator support
Results: Of 124 patients, 44 required assisted ventilation. The need for ventilator support was significantly
... Of the 44 patients who required ventilator support, 28(63.6%) required it within first 24 hour after exposure to organophosphorus compound. Tsao et al (1990) 40 reported 40.2% of patients developed ...
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Respiratory evaluation of patients requiring ventilator support due to acute respiratory failure
... a ventilator circuit, the occlusion or dislodgment of an endotracheal tube, or the occlusion or disconnection of the sampling ...the ventilator circuit is not functioning properly, or if the flow of fresh ...
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Study of Clinical and Biochemical Parameters in predicting the severity of Organophosphorus Compound Poisoning
... Organophosphorous compound poisoning is a common health problem in third world countries. The major cause of morbidity and mortality in OP poisoning is respiratory failure and patients may require ventilator ...
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Original Research Paper Measurement of Serum Amylase in Correlation with Plasma Cholinesterase Level for Assessing the Severity of Organophosphorus Poisoning
... By means of oneway ANOVA analysis , it was found that there is statistically significant difference between serum amylase levels in patients who needed ventilator support for less than 10 days , 11-20 days ...
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Outcome of patients with OPC poisoning who require mechanical ventilation: a statistical analysis
... Our study was conducted in factors associated with prolonged ventilator support in OPC poisoning. Outcome analysis was done in comparing the factors like type of compound, quantity consumed, duration of ...
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Status of Perinatal Mortality in Karnali Academy of Health Sciences, Jumla Nepal
... 6.1 per 1000 live birth which is lower than our study which is probably due to lack of Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with ventilator support in our hospital and inaccessible health care in Jumla. Birth ...
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Prognostic factors of Guillain-Barré syndrome: a 111-case retrospective review
... <0.001), ventilator support ( P ...temperature, ventilator support, consciousness disorder, absence of upper respiratory tract preceding infection, hyperglycemia, hyponatremia, ...
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Bench to bedside review: Ventilatory abnormalities in sepsis
... ventilatory support for as few as 12 hours have a reduction in the force production of the diaphragm both in vivo and in vitro, and this loss progresses with increasing lengths of ventilator support ...
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Severe sepsis: variation in resource and therapeutic modality use among academic centers
... It is striking that delay in antibiotic therapy was associated with a higher mortality rate and that some delays were present in this very ill population. Delays are common in American medicine [49], even in urgent ...
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Car Seats for Children With Mechanically Assisted Ventilation
... tients who required ventilator support were placed in commercially available car seats for transport. Although our patient in case 2 was satisfactorily positioned in a convertible car se[r] ...
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Clinical Verification of A Clinical Decision Support System for Ventilator Weaning
... mechanical ventilator for sustaining their lives among the ICU patients ...with ventilator, 90% of them can be weaned from the ventilator within a few days [2], while other patients need longer ...
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PRACTICES OF NURSES TOWARD PREVENTION OF VENTILATOR ASSOCIATED PNEUMONIA AT PEDIATRIC INTENSIVE CARE UNITS - GAZA STRIP
... Ventilator associated pneumonia is the most fatal of the HAI, with higher mortality rates than either central line infections or sepsis. Ventilated patients who develop VAP have mortality rate of 45% compared to ...
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Pulmonary Rehabilitation in Patients with Neuromuscular Disease
... As with other rehabilitative management pro- gram applied in different fields of medicine, active application of a pulmonary rehabilitation program can actually relieve patients' respiratory symptoms, prevent possible ...
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A program for sustained improvement in preventing ventilator associated pneumonia in an intensive care setting
... There are several limitations to this study. This is not a randomized trial but a quasi-experimental, interrupted time series study. Quasi-experimental study designs are frequently used when it is not logistically ...
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... Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia (VAP) refers to nosocomial pneumonia occurring 48 hours or more after initiation of mechanical ventilation (MV) [1]. VAP is the most common Hospital- Associated Infection (HAI) ...
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Effectiveness of ventilator bundle on prevention of ventilator associated pneumonia among Patients on mechanical ventilator at selected hospitals, Salem
... life support in medicine ...include ventilator induced lung injury, cardiovascular compromise, gastrointestinal disturbances, pneumothorax and the most importantly ventilator associated ...patients. ...
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A decision support system to determine optimal ventilator settings
... the ventilator device change simultaneously depending on the instantaneous status of the patient after the device has been ...decision support system to be devel- oped for this decision process can be ...
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Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia in Pediatric Intensive Care Unit Patients: Risk Factors and Outcomes
... unlikely to be a confounder for severity of illness because PRISM score itself is not a significant pre- dictor of ventilator-associated pneumonia in multi- variate analysis. There may be a true association ...
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A Turbo Ventilator: A Systematic Review
... vane ventilator and another 300mm curved vane ventilator, both of which were made of steel and aluminium and two 250mm straight vane ventilators made of polycarbonate, one of which was transparent to ...
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Ventilator associated pneumonia in the ICU
... Th ere are multiple recommended measures for preven- tion of VAP. Th ese measures are summarized in Table 4 [43]–[46]. Institutions or ICUs may observe a reduction in VAP rates by utilizing a ‘VAP-bundle’ approach [44], ...
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