Respiratory failure is the leading reason for the admission of children to intensive care units, and the ventilator is the main therapeutic tool used during the treatment of these patients. A competently used ventilator and adequate knowledge of the anatomy, histology and physiology of the respiratory system in particular age groups of children (especially among neonates and infants) are crucia...

This paper describes progress in a model-based approach to building a decision support system for mechanical ventilation. It highlights that the process of building models promotes generation of ideas and describes three systems resulting from this process, i.e. for assessing pulmonary gas exchange, calculating arterial acid-base status; and optimizing mechanical ventilation. Each system is pre...

conclusions: rsbi and apache ii score in patients with copd exacerbation are of the ability to predict niv requirement, as a predicting factor of non-invasive ventilation requirement. results: patients requiring niv included 43.9 % of all studied patients. rsbi and apache ii score with sensitivity of 94.8 %, (cut off point = 110) and 72 % (cut off point = 14) respectively, had high diagnostic s...

results sixty patients were involved in this study. in asv mode, values including peak airway pressure (p-peak), end-tidal carbon dioxide (etco2), tidal volume and respiratory dead space were significantly lower than simv mode. although the mean value for dynamic compliance had no significant difference in the two types of ventilation, it was better in asv mode. methods in a crossover study, pa...

Mechanical ventilation is the live-saving therapy in intensive care medicine by all means. Nevertheless, it can induce severe mechanical stress to the lung, which generally impairs the outcome of the therapy. To reduce the risk of a ventilator induced lung injury (VILI), lung protective ventilation is essential, especially for patients with a previous medical history like the adult respiratory ...

The objective of this paper is to estimate the potential for electricity savings with the use of daylighting integrated with the artificial lighting system and hybrid ventilation in commercial buildings located in Florianópolis, southern Brazil. Several models were analysed. Two cases were investigated: a reference case, operating only with air-conditioning system and another one with the use o...