Dynamic MRI of Normal Diaphragmatic Motions during Spontaneous Breathing and Maximal Deep Breathing

Comparative study on cardiac autonomic modulation during deep breathing test and diaphragmatic breathing in type 2 diabetes and healthy subjects

AIMS/INTRODUCTION Diaphragmatic breathing is known to have a beneficial effect on the cardiopulmonary system, and enhances parasympathetic activation. We evaluated the influence of diaphragmatic breathing on time domain measures of heart rate variability in diabetics and healthy subjects. MATERIALS AND METHODS A total of 122 type 2 diabetics and 94 healthy subjects (controls) were randomly al...

The Breathing-Book Spontaneous breathing during artificial ventilation

Teaching Diaphragmatic Breathing to Children

The process of breathing has been linked to consciousness, health, and spirit. Newborns naturally breathe using diaphragmatic breathing. However, by the age of 10, most children use a shallow thoracic breathing pattern, except when in a supine position. Adult literature indicates that patients taught diaphragmatic breathing experience significant decreases in numerous physical and psychophysiol...

Quantal ventilatory variability during spontaneous breathing anaesthesia.

BACKGROUND Cardioventilatory coupling is the triggering of inspiratory onset by preceding cardiac activity. We have observed two forms of coupling with a bimodal ('quantal') variation of respiratory period. METHODS We investigated the variables of inspiratory duration (TI), expiratory duration (TE), and tidal volume (VT) where respiratory period variation was bimodal. In 25 anaesthetized spon...

Spontaneous breathing during mechanical ventilation in ARDS

The objective of mechanical ventilation used in the management of Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) is to ensure adequate tissue oxygenation and alveolar ventilation while limiting the patients’ work of breathing and preventing further damage to the lungs. Although the “partial support” ventilation modes were initially developed to assist weaning or liberation from supported ventilatio...