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Filter by:Obesity hypoventilation syndrome (OHS) is defined as a combination of obesity [body mass index (BMI) ≥30 kg/m2], chronic daytime hypercapnia (PaCO2 >45 mm Hg), and sleep-apnea in the absence of other known causes of hypercapnia. Respiratory system compliance decreases and resistance increases in OHS. This causes increase in work of breathing and oxygen cost of breathing, which may result in respiratory muscle fatigue. Increase in respiratory workload and increase in resistance to respiration is expected to decrease in respiratory muscle endurance (RME) in subjects with OHS.
The data were retrospectively collected during the first and the second wave of epidemic in COVID-19 patients with Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2, at the moment of intensive care unit admission and during the in intensive care unit staying.
Comorbidities associated with severe obesity determine an important public health problem. Few methods are considered potentially effective for the treatment of severe obesity and the clinical relevance of bariatric surgery is growing, as well as the number of procedures performed. The insertion of the physiotherapist in the multiprofessional team responsible for performing the surgical procedure is essential from the preoperative screening and evaluation to the prevention and treatment of postoperative complications. Therefore, the physiopathological aspects involved with severe obesity, the technical aspects and risks of the surgical procedure, as well as the physiotherapeutic techniques that have scientific proof must be known by the physiotherapist responsible for the surgical follow-up of the patient. In this context, the use of non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in the postoperative period of bariatric surgery has ample therapeutic potential. The present research project aims to evaluate the immediate prophylactic use of NIV on the respiratory and functional recovery of the patients.
Continuous positive airway pressure and non-invasive ventilation are common treatment modalities for obstructive sleep apnea, central sleep apnea, and chronic alveolar hypoventilation from a variety of causes. Use of positive airway pressure (PAP) requires use of an interface, commonly referred to as a "mask." There are a range of mask options available, differing in configuration and sizing, including masks that fit into the nostrils (nasal pillows, NP), cover the nose (nasal masks, NM), cover both the nose and the mouth (oronasal masks, ONM), and rarely those that fit into the mouth (oral masks, OM) or over the entire face. The variety of masks, sizes, and materials result from the wide variety of facial configurations and patient preferences along with requirements to provide a good seal for varying pressure requirements. Failure to find a good match for a given patient may result in significant side effects, such as eye irritation owing to leak into the eyes, skin pressure sores, noise generation, and inadequate therapy when air leaks are extreme. Pressure sores, mask dislodgement, claustrophobic complaints, air leaks, and sore eyes occur in 20-50% of patients with OSA receiving PAP, and these effects negatively correlate with PAP compliance. Furthermore, several trials point to differences in compliance related to which types of masks are utilized. In a randomized cross-over trial, compliance was 1 hour more per night in patients using NM compared to those using ONM.1 In another, NPs were associated with fewer adverse effects and better subjective sleep quality than NMs.2 Therefore, failure to find an acceptable mask results in lower or non-compliance, and therefore treatment failure. Currently, finding a right mask is performed either using crude templates, or via an iterative process, variably guided by experts in mask fitting. There are no standard certifications or algorithms to guide mask fitting. Given the above, it would be very desirable to find a reliable method to reduce the errors in mask fitting so that the costs, inconvenience, and suffering are all reduced.
The ETAPES Program, a French national Experimentation in Telemedicine for the Improvement of Healthcare Pathways, was launched in 2018 for 4 years. Its objectives were to provide a temporary public reimbursement for medical telemonitoring in order to determine the benefits for the patient and the impact on medical organization and healthcare costs. In particular, this program applies to patients suffering from hypercapnic chronic respiratory failure and requiring home non invasive ventilation (NIV). For these patients, the ETAPES program combines NIV telemonitoring and therapeutic education. e-VENT study aims at evaluating the ETAPES program, implemented using the Chronic Care Connect™ telemonitoring solution, versus Standard of Care, on the effectiveness of home NIV, measured by average PtCO2, reflecting the level of nocturnal alveolar hypoventilation.
Home sleep studies - which allow the measurement of breathing while the person sleeps - will be performed on patients with fibrotic interstitial lung disease attending two of the UK's largest respiratory medicine services.The study will investigate at how symptoms, and breathing and exercise tests differ between these two groups after 12 months of study.
This study focuses on a comprehensive examination of obese patients with sleep-related breathing disorders including patients with OSA, sleep hypoventilation and OHS. The aim of this study is to (1) evaluate characteristics of and differences between severity levels of obesity-related breathing disorders, (2) discuss pathophysiological variables associated with hypoventilation during sleep or at daytime and (3) find functional parameters indicating sleep hypoventilation.
The proposed A/Z modification of a supraglottic airway (SGA) incorporates an opening in the SGA body that enables access to the endotracheal tube (ETT) through the body of the SGA without the need of using an exchange catheter, thus enabling an ETT to move in the body of the SGA and convert a supraglottic to endotracheal ventilation. In its original form an adaptor made from same material currently used in the endotracheal tubes can make ventilation through the proposed airway device possible in exactly the same manner of a conventional SGA currently used. This adapter also known as the R-piece can be replaced with an ETT. The modification also allows placement of SGA over an existing ETT to convert and endotracheal (ET) to supraglottic (SG) mode of ventilation without the need to use an exchange catheter.
Little is known about how lung mechanics are affected during the very early phase after starting mechanical ventilation. Since the conventional method of measuring esophageal pressure is complicated, hard to interpret and expensive, there are no studies on lung mechanics on intensive care patients directly after intubation, during the first hours of ventilator treatment and forward until the ventilator treatment is withdrawn. Published studies have collected data using the standard methods from day 1 to 3 of ventilator treatment for respiratory system mechanics, i.e. the combined mechanics of lung and chest wall. Consequently, information on lung mechanical properties during the first critical hours of ventilator treatment is missing and individualization of ventilator care done on the basis of respiratory system mechanics, which are not representative of lung mechanics on an individual patient basis. We have developed a PEEP-step method based on a change of PEEP up and down in one or two steps, where the change in end-expiratory lung volume ΔEELV) is determined and lung compliance calculated as ΔEELV divided by ΔPEEP (CL = ΔEELV/ΔPEEP). This simple non-invasive method for separating lung and chest wall mechanics provides an opportunity to enhance the knowledge of lung compliance and the transpulmonary pressure. After the two-PEEP-step procedure, the PEEP level where transpulmonary driving pressure is lowest can be calculated for any chosen tidal volume. The aim of the present study in the ICU is to survey lung mechanics from start of mechanical ventilation until extubation and to determine PEEP level with lowest (least injurious) transpulmonary driving pressure during ventilator treatment. The aim of the study during anesthesia in the OR, is to survey lung mechanics in lung healthy and identify patients with lung conditions before anesthesia, which may have an increased risk of postoperative complications.
This study aims to compare, in subjects with obesity-hypoventilation syndrome (OHS) treated by long-term non-invasive ventilation (NIV), resting energy expenditure (REE) in spontaneous breathing and under NIV. The hypothesise of this study is that REE will be lower under NIV than under spontaneous breathing.