View clinical trials related to Respiratory Mechanics.
Filter by:Research question: Are the ventilatory variables related to mechanical power associated with the outcome of subjects who received mechanical ventilation (MV) for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS) secondary to pneumonia (NMN) due to COVID-19?
Intraoperative protective ventilation with low tidal volumes (TV), positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) and possibly lung recruitment maneuvers (RMs) reduces postoperative pulmonary complications. In thoracic surgery, in one-lung ventilation (OLV), the evidence is lacking. However, in this context protective ventilation with PEEP titration is related to better intraoperative oxygenation and respiratory mechanics. It is not clear whether this strategy is associated also with better postoperative oxygenation and less postoperative pulmonary complications.
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) poses a significant burden on the patients and the health care system. The increasing number of surgery performed in elderly population results in an increased number of perioperative T2DM-related adverse effects. T2DM has a prevalence of 30-40% in a population undergoing cardiovascular surgery. Cardiac surgery, especially cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) is also known to deteriorate respiratory mechanics. The vascular effects of T2DM are well characterized, however, its effects on the mechanical properties of the respiratory system or the exhaled carbon-dioxide concentration curve (capnogram) during and following CPB are yet to be fully discovered. Therefore, the study is aimed at characterizing the respiratory consequences of T2DM, i.e.: i: deteriorations of airway function that might be a result of smooth muscle dysfunction; ii: deterioration of the viscoelastic properties of the lung as a result of lung volume loss or structural changes, iii: exploring whether the changes of respiratory mechanics caused by cardiac surgery exhibit a different time course in T2DM and control patients. The study also aims at characterizing the effects of T2DM on capnogram parameters: i: whether it influences capnogram shape factors, ii: whether any differences can be detected in the dead-space parameters and iii: whether cardiac surgery has a different effect on capnogram parameters in T2DM patients compared to controls.
This Randomized controlled clinical study, entitled "Effects on Respiratory mechanics of two different ventilation strategies during Robotic- Gynecological surgery", is an original paper. The study was performed in Rome, Italy, from September 2014 to September 2015. Nowadays several studies evaluated the effects of "open lung strategy" and the positive effect of Recruitment Maneuvers and Positive End Expiratory Pressure (PEEP) application during general anesthesia, especially during open abdominal surgery and in elderly patients. This is the first study aimed at evaluating two different ventilation strategies in healthy respiratory women undergoing Robotic surgery. In particular, the investigators evaluated the effects of protective ventilation strategy on respiratory mechanics, gas exchange and post-operative respiratory complications compared to standard ventilation.
Aim of this study is to better understand pathophysiology of the alteration of respiratory mechanics and cardiovascular function in obese volunteer subjects. The investigators plan to test this hypothesis with a physiological, interventional study conducted on volunteers by using Electrical Impedance Tomography in a group of patients and magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in another group.
The goal of this interventional crossover study in morbidly obese intubated and mechanically ventilated patients is to describe the respiratory mechanics and the heart-lung interaction at titrated positive end-expiratory pressure levels following a recruitment maneuver with transthoracic echocardiography and electric impedance tomography imaging.