In patients with severe respiratory failure, either hypoxemic or hypercapnic, life support with mechanical ventilation alone can be insufficient to meet their needs, especially if one tries to avoid ventilator settings that can cause injury to the lungs. In those patients, extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO), which is also very effective in removing carbon dioxide from the blood, can pro...

A frequent problem in automatic categorization applications involving Portuguese language is the absence of large corpora of previously classified documents, which permit the validation of experiments carried out. Generally, the available corpora are not classified or, when they are, they contain a very reduced number of documents. The general goal of this study is to contribute to the developm...

Intensive therapy of out-of-hospital pneumonia in conditions mass admission patients during 2020 presented many lessons, including regarding the strategy respiratory support, as it turned out that mechanical ventilation passive with COVID-19 is almost equivalent to a death sentence. On other hand, maintaining spontaneous breathing dyspnea and hyperpnea can cause specific self-inflicted lung inj...