BACKGROUND Patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) risk lung collapse, severely altering the breath-to-breath respiratory mechanics. Model-based estimation of respiratory mechanics characterising patient-specific condition and response to treatment may be used to guide mechanical ventilation (MV). This study presents a model-based approach to monitor time-varying patient-ventil...

BACKGROUND The impulse oscillometry is increasingly used for assessing the oscillatory mechanics of the respiratory system. The within-breath behaviour of the oscillatory mechanics in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is a well-known physiological feature. The purpose of this study was to develop a new approach for assessing this feature using impulse oscillometry. METHODS The osci...

INTRODUCTION The objectives were to study the changes in the mechanics of respiration in children undergoing surgery depending on the value of intra-abdominal pressure (IAP) during laparoscopic procedures, and to compare the effects of different mechanical ventilation modes - pressure controlled (PCV) and volume controlled (VCV) ventilation - on the mechanics of respiration considering carboxyp...

The Mechanics of Breathing and Stabilization of Ventilation in Patients With Unilateral Cerebral Infarction • The mechanics of breathing and responses of the respiratory system to CO2 during resistance breathing were studied in 12 patients with clinical evidence of unilateral cerebral infarction and compared with the findings in normal subjects. The respiratory abnormalities in patients with ce...

Kuebler WM, Mertens M, Pries AR. A two-component simulation model to teach respiratory mechanics. Adv Physiol Educ 31: 218–222, 2007; doi:10.1152/advan.00001.2007.—Interactive learning has been proven instrumental for the understanding of complex systems where the interaction of interdependent components is hard to envision. Due to the mechanical properties and mutual coupling of the lung and t...

MCCARTHY, L. E., AND H. L. BORISON. Respiratory mechanics of vornitiq ilz &cerebrate cats. Am. J. Physiol. 226(3) : 738-743. 1974.-Observations were made on the changes in thoracic venous pressure, abdominal venous pressure, and arterial blood pressure associated with vomiting induced by veratrum alkaloids (50-150 lug; kg, im). Tracheal and intrapleural pressures were also examined for comparis...