OBJECTIVE To measure the diaphragmatic excursion and its outcome on weaning from mechanical ventilation. STUDY DESIGN Cross-sectional comparative study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY Medical Intensive Care Unit (ICU), Military Hospital (MH), Rawalpindi, Pakistan, from January to December 2014. METHODOLOGY Diaphragmatic excursion (DE) in cm was measured through ultrasound by marking liver an...

Weaning from mechanical ventilation was categorised as simple, difficult or prolonged by an international task force of the American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society/European Society of Intensive Care Medicine/Society of Critical Care Medicine/Sociéte de Réanimation de Langue Française in 2007. This new classification has not been tested in clinical practice. The objective of the p...

Two trials involving a total of 56 pigs were conducted to examine the effects of weaning at 7 d of age (trial 1) and of energy intake level and length of post-weaning underfeeding period (trial 2) on small intestinal (SI) development and morphometry. At 3 d after weaning, weight of the SI and mucosa (g/kg body weight) and villous height along SI were reduced by 20, 36 and 41%, respectively, com...

Under commercial conditions, weaning of piglets is associated with social, environmental and dietary stress. Consequently, small-intestinal barrier and absorptive functions deteriorate within a short time after weaning. Most studies that have assessed small-intestinal permeability in pigs after weaning used either Ussing chambers or orally administered marker probes. Paracellular barrier functi...

OBJECTIVE We sought to determine whether the utilization of a respiratory therapist (RT) driven mechanical ventilation weaning protocol is associated with improvement in clinical outcomes in subjects with simple versus difficult weaning. METHODS This was a retrospective analysis of prospectively collected data obtained during a quality improvement project. We collected data on 803 consecutive...

ABSTRACT: This study measured milk and solid feed intake in pre- weaning period postweaning of Nellore calves, to correlated them with performance traits ingestive behavior animals classified as most least efficient. During pre phase, efficiency was evaluated 51 cow-calf pairs from 21±5 days after calving until weaning. post-weaning only male calves (n=23) were evaluated. Pre-weaning estimated ...

The study comprises observations in 464 Swedish Yorkshire pigs at puberty and after the first weaning. The aim was to study relationships between age at puberty and weaning to estrus interval and between estrus signs at puberty and after the first weaning. The estrus signs were checked, and blood samples for progesterone determination were drawn regularly around puberty and after the first wean...

Background Weaning from mechanical ventilation to spontaneous breathing is associated with changes in the hemodynamic and autonomic nervous systems that are reflected by heart rate variability. Although cardiac dysrhythmias are an important manifestation of hemodynamic alterations, the impact of heart rate variability on the occurrence of dysrhythmias during weaning has not been specifically st...

this experiment was conducted using 172 male lambs of ghezel and mehraban breeds for two periods of 60 and 80 days. two systems of fattening were studied. the first group of lambs entered feedlot boxes immediately after weaning (spring) but the second group being fed on pasture, entered the experiment approximately 4 months later (autumn). fattening periods were 60 and 80 days. the average wean...

Improving Intensive Care Unit (ICU) outcomes by reducing ventilator associated complications and ventilator days may warrant re-engineering the weaning process.1 Alternative methods which assist clinicians in organizing and implementing accurate weaning processes may shorten the duration of ventilator dependence and positively impact ICU outcomes.2 Knowledge based weaning (KBW) provides an alte...