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Filter by:Ventilator assisted individuals (VAIs) living at home are frail and generally cannot perform most daily activities. Although these individuals prefer to live at home, the family members who care for them often experience stress and poor health. Peer support can mitigate health declines by decreasing caregivers' isolation/stress and increasing their sense of control. However, no peer support programs are designed to meet these caregivers' complex and unique needs. Online support delivery is especially beneficial for caregivers given the geographic and time limitations they face. The proposed research aims to develop and conduct an RCT of online peer support program for VAI caregivers. A group of caregivers will be trained to act as peer mentors. This training program will be evaluated for its impact on caregivers' mentoring abilities. At the end of the 12-week program, caregiving participants will be asked about the online delivery of the program, how helpful/satisfactory it was, and if it affected their health and well-being. The health outcomes of the control and intervention group will be compared. This peer support program can improve the well-being of caregivers and allow them to better care for their family members.
The aim of this study is to investigate whether postoperative ventilation with INTELLiVENT-ASV(adaptive support ventilation) in high risk patients, after cardiothoracic surgery, is as effective, more user-friendly and as safe as compared to the conventional modes of ventilation.
This pilot study tests the feasibility of using a computerized ventilator management protocol seeking to encourage lung protective ventilation during the acute phase of ventilation, and esophageal manometry based titration of ventilator settings during the weaning phase of ventilation, for children with acute respiratory failure. The investigators hypothesize that such an approach will reduce time on mechanical ventilation, largely by preserving diaphragm muscle function.
This study aims to examine the use of protocol directed sedation using the Duke PAD protocol with the current sedation medications of propofol or dexmedetomidine compared to the PAD protocol with midazolam, per cardiac intensive care unit (CICU) usual care, as an initial step toward understanding the best management of sedation in these patients.
The purpose of this study is to compare the clinical response rate of doripenem versus comparator in patients with ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP).