This year wildfires have rarely been out of the press. Since June, headlines charted fires in Canada and US Pacific northwest, Siberia, California, countries around Mediterranean, including Greece, Turkey, France, Italy. At time writing, many these continue to burn, with Australian bushfire season still come, more such might be expected. The increasing frequency severity over past 40 years has ...

BACKGROUND The 3-dimensional (3D) distances of specific points on the chest and abdominal wall are useful for assessing the characteristics of breathing movement. This study aimed to determine whether the 3D distances on the chest and abdominal wall during deep breathing (DB) could be estimated using a newly developed breathing movement-measuring device (BMMD). METHODS Breathing movement dist...

OBJECTIVE To evaluate breathing pattern and thoracoabdominal motion during breathing exercises. METHODS Twenty-four patients with class II or III obesity (18 women; 6 men) were studied on the second postoperative day after gastroplasty. The mean age was 37 +/- 11 years, and the mean BMI was 44 +/- 3 kg/m(2). Diaphragmatic breathing, incentive spirometry with a flow-oriented device and incenti...

For the past three years the Pediatric Research Department of the Lovelace Foundation has been engaged in investigative and clinical studies of the use of intermittent positive pressure breathing (hereinafter termed IPPB) therapy in the field of pediatrics. Studies in infant resuscitation1 have proved its worth in (1) expanding the non-expanded lungs of newborns who do not breathe at birth, (2)...

PURPOSE In this report, we evaluated whether radiological technologists' (RTs') awareness of patient safety would improve and what kind of effects would be seen at the department of radiological technology by introducing KYT [K: kiken (hazard), Y: yochi (prediction), T: (training)]. METHODS KYT was carried out by ten RTs based on a KYT sheet for the department of radiological technology. To e...

Currently recommended practice in supported work emphasizes training job skills to workers with severe disabilities while on the job. Early behavioral research indicated that skills needed in natural environments could also be trained in simulated settings. We compared job-site plus simulation training for teaching job skills to supported workers with autism to provision of training exclusively...

This study used a decerebrate and artificially-ventilated preparation to examine the roles of various afferent inputs in breathing pattern formation in the tambaqui (Colossoma macropomum). Three general breathing patterns were observed: (1) regular breathing; (2) frequency cycling and (3) episodic breathing. Under normoxic, normocapnic conditions, 50% of control fish exhibited regular continuou...