Background. Impedance cardiography (ICG) has been used extensively to estimate stroke volume (SV) and cardiac output (CO) from changes of thoracic electrical bioimpedance (TEB). However, studies comparing ICG with reference methods have questioned the reliability of this approach. Electrical velocimetry (EV) provides a new algorithm to calculate CO from variations in TEB. As the transoesophagea...

Introduction: The ultimate goal of radiation treatment planning is to yield a high tumor control probability (TCP) with a low normal tissue complication probability (NTCP). Historically  dose volume histogram (DVH) with only volumetric dose distribution was utilized as a popular tool for plan evaluation  hence present study aimed to compare the radiobiological effectiveness of the cobalt-60 (Co...

background: in 1999, duzce suffered two consecutive devastating earthquakes above magnitude 7 in august and november. in the present study, we aimed to evaluate the indoor air quality of coffeehouses by determining carbon monoxide (co) levels and their contributing factors in coffeehouses built before and after the earthquake. methods: we conducted our study in 76 turkish coffeehouses in duzce ...

The pulsed detonation (PD) gun technology was applied for the autothermal high-temperature conversion of natural gas and atmospheric-pressure oxygen-free allothermal gasification liquid/solid organic wastes by detonation-born ultra-superheated steam (USS) using two flow reactors essentially different volume: 100 40 dm3. Liquid solid were waste machine oil wood sawdust, with moisture ranging fro...

INTRODUCTION The inspiratory flow pattern influences CO₂ elimination by affecting the time the tidal volume remains resident in alveoli. This time is expressed in terms of mean distribution time (MDT), which is the time available for distribution and diffusion of inspired tidal gas within resident alveolar gas. In healthy and sick pigs, abrupt cessation of inspiratory flow (that is, high end-in...

The contribution of reaction resistance to overall resistance to pulmonary carbon monoxide (CO) uptake [DLCO/(ThetaCO . Vc), where DLCO is lung CO diffusing capacity, ThetaCO is CO uptake conductance of erythrocytes, and Vc is pulmonary capillary blood volume] was determined in 10 anesthetized, paralyzed, and artificially ventilated rabbits. On the basis of the classical double-reciprocal equat...

Patients with extremely severe oligozoospermia (ESO) and cryptozoospermia (CO) are suitable using intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) as an infertility treatment. However, some andrologists are confused to distinguish ESO and CO in clinic diagnose. This study was designed for the first time to evaluate and compare patients with ESO and CO to determine whether these are useful clinical disti...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Exhaled carbon monoxide (CO) is associated with cardiometabolic traits, subclinical atherosclerosis, and cardiovascular disease, but its specific relations with stroke are unexplored. We related exhaled CO to magnetic resonance imaging measures of subclinical cerebrovascular disease cross-sectionally and to incident stroke/transient ischemic attack prospectively in the Fr...

The single breath transfer factor of the lung for carbon monoxide (TL,CO) is derived from the multiple of the carbon monoxide transfer coefficient (KCO) and the alveolar volume (VA) during breath holding [1]; consequently, the TL,CO is highly dependent on lung size (yVA), and thus is smaller in females for a given height and age. Essentially, the KCO is the rate constant for alveolar carbon mon...

PURPOSE This study was to compare noninvasive measurement of cardiac output (CO) using a novel Doppler technique with invasive CO measurements in the postcardiac surgical intensive care unit. DESCRIPTION Thirty-six patients (67.2 +/- 10 years, New York Heart Association functional class 3.1 +/- 0.3) undergoing coronary revascularization were prospectively examined postoperatively. One hundred...