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Clinical and Translational Radiation OncologyBackground: Minimizing tumor motion in radiotherapy for intra-thoracic tumors reduces side-effects by limiting radiation exposure to healthy tissue. Continuous or Bilevel Positive Airway Pressure (CPAP/BiPAP) could achieve this, since it could increase ...
J. Elshof +5 more
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A fresh look at paralytics in the critically ill: real promise and real concern. [PDF]
, 2012 Neuromuscular blocking agents (NMBAs), or "paralytics," often are deployed in the sickest patients in the intensive care unit (ICU) when usual care fails.
Kenyon, Nicholas J +2 more
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Complications of Mechanical Ventilation [PDF]
, 1973 With increasing utilization of mechanical ventilation during the past decade or so, complications related to its use have also increased. Ventilators are primarily indicated when acceptable safe levels of oxygenation and ventilation cannot be maintained ...
Muren, Orhan
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Mechanical ventilation in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis in Korea: a nationwide cohort study [PDF]
The Korean Journal of Internal MedicineBackground/Aims The prognosis of patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) and respiratory failure requiring mechanical ventilation is poor. Therefore, mechanical ventilation is not recommended.
Jae Kyeom Sim +8 more
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Evaluation of parametrics for the development of vertical solar chimney ventilation in hot and humid climate [PDF]
, 2006 In terms of housing passive cooling design, tropical climatic regions present the most difficult problem to solve. A good dwelling design can keep the indoor environment favorable and comfortable during most of the year without the use of any mechanical ...
Ahmad, Mohd. Hamdan +2 more
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Jurnal Anestesi Perioperatif, 2016 Mechanical ventilation weaning is a process of withdrawing ventilator assistance gradually or immediately by Intensive Care Unit (ICU) physicians. This study aimed to describe the procedure and the success rate of mechanical ventilation weaning performed
Richard Pahala Sitorus +2 more
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A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Weaning of Mechanical Ventilation in Intensive Care Units
, 2017 The management of invasive mechanical ventilation, and the regulation of sedation and analgesia during ventilation, constitutes a major part of the care of patients admitted to intensive care units. Both prolonged dependence on mechanical ventilation and
Cheng, Li-Fang +4 more
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Characteristics and outcome of patients with newly diagnosed advanced or metastatic lung cancer admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) [PDF]
, 2018 BACKGROUND: Although patients with advanced or metastatic lung cancer have poor prognosis, admission to the ICU for management of life-threatening complications has increased over the years.
A Steven +36 more
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Türk Yoğun Bakim Derneği Dergisi, 2015 Since still controversial and not often applied, we would like to share our acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patient successfully treated with noninvasive mechanical ventilation. A 26 year-old male patient with the diagnosis of Burkitt lymphoma
Yusuf Savran +3 more
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