Two elderly women suffering from dyskinesia affecting the respiratory muscles are described. The diagnosis was initially missed in both cases, and thought to be anxiety syndrome in one patient, and chronic obstructive airways disease in the other. Drug therapy further increased the severity of the dyskinetic movements which greatly improved when it was discontinued. Dyskinesia should be conside...

The respiratory effects of etomidate 0.3 mg/kg were studied in patients premedicated with either diazepam and atropine or papaveretum and hyoscine. The incidence of apnoea was 40% in those who received the non-narcotic premedication, compared with 27% in those who received the opiate. Those premedicated with diazepam and atropine showed a significant increase in respiratory frequency which was ...

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This paper presents our industrial experience on Bioinformatics. We define one-dimensional model with latency (delays) and acceleration using mixed discrete and continuous (hybrid) dynamics of an industrial radiation therapy system with respiratory compensation using Open Modelica tool. We then investigate and analyze the model with several tumor movement trajectories.

Thirteen intubated, high dependency patients with neurological injuries were studied in order to investigate the short term respiratory effects of neurophysiological facilitation and passive movement on tidal volume (VT), minute ventilation (VE), respiratory rate (VR) and oxygen saturation (SpO2). The subjects were studied under four conditions: no intervention (control) and during periods of n...

Carbon-ion therapy by layer-stacking irradiation for static targets has been practised in clinical treatments. In order to apply this technique to a moving target, disturbances of carbon-ion dose distributions due to respiratory motion have been studied based on the measurement using a respiratory motion phantom, and the margin estimation given by the square root of the summation Internal margi...

The goal of radiation therapy is to give as much dose as possible to the target volume of tissue and avoid giving any dose to a healthy tissue. Advances of the digital control allow performing accurate plans and treatments. Unfortunately, motion compensation during the treatment remains a considerable problem. Currently, a combination of the different techniques, such as gating (restricting mov...

The development of respiratory drive for vocalization was studied by observing chest wall kinematics longitudinally in 4 typically developing children from the age of 9 to 48 months. Measurements of the relative contribution of rib cage and abdominal movement during vocalization (i.e., babbling and true words) and rest breathing were obtained every 3 months using respiratory plethysmography (Re...

The mechanism by which a normal pulmonary ventilation was produced in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis without voluntary breathing and without movement of the chest wall was described in 1940.' An adequate gas exchange between the lungs and the atmosphere could not be maintained in animals with experimental respiratory paralysis by the alternating pressure method of Thunberga until the bron...

Patients with respiratory muscle weakness show nocturnal hypoventilation, with oxygen desaturation particularly during rapid eye movement (REM) sleep, but evidence in individuals with isolated bilateral diaphragmatic paresis (BDP) is conflicting. The effect of sleep on relative activity of the different respiratory muscles of such patients and, consequently, the precise mechanisms causing desat...