The concept of central sleep apnoea or hypoventilation encompasses hypercapnic central hypoventilation, such as obesity hypoventilation syndrome and eucapnic or hypocapnic central sleep apnoea. Among subjects with eucapnic or hypocapnic central sleep apnoea, several therapeutic options are available for those with Cheyne–Stokes respiration (CSR). CSR is frequent in patients with New York Heart ...

GOAL OF THE STUDY To assess the benefit of pressure support ventilation during fibreoptic intubation performed under propofol anaesthesia in patients having an anticipated difficult intubation. PROCEDURES Thirty-two patients with ENT cancer, and having at least two criteria for anticipated difficult intubation were prospectively included. All patients received topical lidocaine 2% and propofo...

This paper describes an adaptive multi-modal person verification system based on speech and face images. The system adapts to noise present in the speech signal by modifying the parameters of the fusion module. Linear and Support Vector Machine (SVM) based techniques of fusing the similarity measures from speech and face modes are investigated. Experimental results obtained on the Digit Databas...

BACKGROUND Although evaluation of cardiac output by the partial carbon dioxide rebreathing technique is as accurate as thermodilution techniques under controlled mechanical ventilation, it is less accurate at low tidal volume. It is not clear whether reduced accuracy is due to low tidal volume or low minute ventilation. The effect of spontaneous breathing on the accuracy of partial carbon dioxi...

Adaptive servo-ventilation (ASV) is a form of non-invasive positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy that differs from other PAP devices. It includes features to overcome both obstructive and central sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) events. In the Treatment of Sleep-Disordered Breathing with Predominant Central Sleep Apnea by Adaptive Servo-Ventilation in Patients with Heart Failure (SERVE-HF) stu...

Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Francesco Zitarosa is Director of the Global Crankcase Ventilation Application Technology Department at the Reinz-DichtungsGmbH in Neu-Ulm (Germany). Philipp Zedelmair, B. Eng. works on Oil Separation Development at the Plastics Systems Division of the Reinz-DichtungsGmbH in Neu-Ulm (Germany). Dipl.-Ing. (FH) Christoph Erdmann is Development Director at the Plastics Systems Divi...

There is a call for methodologically robust randomised clinical trials in adult extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for its routine implementation for patients with "failing" conventional ventilation. Adherence to lung protective ventilation strategies, along with fluid balance [if required early renal replacement therapy] and inotropes to support the circulation to minimise ventilator-induced ...

BACKGROUND Prolonged controlled mechanical ventilation depresses diaphragmatic efficiency. Assisted modes of ventilation should improve it. We assessed the impact of pressure support ventilation versus neurally adjusted ventilator assist on diaphragmatic efficiency. METHOD Patients previously ventilated with controlled mechanical ventilation for 72 hours or more were randomized to be ventilat...