OBJECTIVES Breath-stacking asynchrony during assist-control-mode ventilation may be associated with increased tidal volume and alveolar pressure that could contribute to ventilator-induced lung injury. Methods to reduce breath stacking have not been well studied. The objective of this investigation was to evaluate 1) which interventions were used by managing clinicians to address severe breath ...

The most recent treatment option of medically refractory heart failure includes cardiac resynchronization therapy (CRT) by biventricular pacing in selected patients in NYHA functional class III or IV heart failure. The widely used marker to indicate left ventricular (LV) asynchrony has been the surface ECG, but seems not to be a sufficient marker of the mechanical events within the LV and predi...

Ninety-two clinic-referred and nonclinical mother-child dyads in Spain and the USA were observed in their home settings under naturalistic conditions for a total of 477 hours. Children in the clinic-referred dyads were considered troubled because of conduct problems. The observations were aimed at assessing two forms of mother-child asynchrony, either of which was expected to differentiate clin...

In this study, we measured detection and tolerance thresholds of auditory-visual asynchrony between time-expanded speech and a moving image of the talker’s face for older adults. During experiments, words were presented under two conditions: asynchrony by time-expanded speech (expansion condition, EXP) and simple timing shift (asynchronous condition, ASYN). We used 16 Japanese shorter words (fo...

Background: Comparative features of embryos developed under in vitro and vivo conditions are particularly important designing embryo transfer procedures that fulfil embryo-recipient synchronization requirements. Objective: To determine the degree asynchrony rabbit development between cultured embryos. Methods: A total 55 non-lactating multiparous female rabbits were used. Embryos classified as ...