A headline from The Times newspaper of 14 August 2000—‘‘Power cut kills man on home ventilator’’—is likely to strike a chill in the heart of anyone involved in providing home respiratory care. Bearing in mind it is impossible to guarantee complete safety even in the hospital environment, what is the respiratory practitioner’s responsibility towards the individual receiving ventilatory support i...

When patients depend on ventilators for a long period of time, it will increase the risk complexity and death. Thus, medical professionals try to help wean off from ventilator as soon possible minimize adverse effects respiratory machine. This study analyzed historical clinical data evaluate improve weaning protocol in operation. adopted retrospective approach by collecting 1,014 cases Taiwan 2...

background: neonatal lupus erythematosus is an uncommon disease. congenital complete heart block (cchb) usually happens in neonates with maternal systemic lupus erythematosus. the most prevalent presentation of cchbis bradycardiathatcanbediagnosed through an electrocardiogram. case report: here in, we present the case of a full-term male neonate with gestational age of 37 weeks and birth weight...

BACKGROUND Previous studies have reported worse outcomes in children with nondilated cardiomyopathy (CMP) listed for heart transplant compared with children with dilated CMP. We sought to compare wait-list and posttransplant outcomes in these groups in the current era. METHODS AND RESULTS We analyzed all children <18 years of age with a diagnosis of CMP listed for heart transplant in the Unit...

EndoPAR (Endoscopic Partial-Autonomous Robot) is an open experimental platform for robot assisted minimally invasive heart surgery with haptic feedback. The manipulator set-up is composed of two low-payload robots equipped with sensorized surgical instruments and a third robot carrying a stereo camera system. Trocar kinematics, enabling surgical manipulation through small incisions, has been im...

PURPOSE Transplantation of donation after cardiac death (DCD) intestine has higher rates of organ failure and complications. Fortunately, this is less grievous in a subclass of DCD called controlled (CDCD), those with irreversible but incomplete brain injury. The aim of the paper is to establish a CDCD porcine model which is closely mimicking human CDCD scenario, and investigate the physiologic...

A 28-year-old housewife was admitted to hospital in congestive cardiac failure but treatment with digitalis resulted in rapid improvement. She had a past history of attacks of winter bronchitis and rheumatic fever at 12 years of age. Clinical examination suggested that the underlying lesion was stenosis of the mitral valve, and one month later the patient was referred to a thoracic surgeon for ...

BACKGROUND The utilization of checklists, bundles, and protocols attempts to provide standardization in the delivery of patient care. Despite important progress obtained in the prevention of hospital-acquired infections, the daily management of mechanical ventilation is still prone to heterogeneity, depending on the number of providers manipulating the ventilator. Whether the number of changes ...