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Filter by:Access to medical care for patients with breathing disorders during sleep is a major problem for Canadians. Recently, there has been increasing interest in how health care providers who are not physicians can help to improve access to medical care for these patients, but it is unclear whether patients with severe sleep-disordered breathing who receive care from these non-physician providers have the same response to treatment as patients who receive care from physicians. Since these severe have a high risk of developing cardiac and respiratory complications and of being hospitalized, an initiative to improve access such as the use of non-physician providers could be of great benefit to individual patients and the health care system. The objectives of this project are: 1. to determine whether patients with severe breathing disorders during sleep have the same response to treatment when cared for by non-physician health care providers (respiratory therapists) as they do when cared for by physicians; 2. to determine the effects of non-physician health care provider treatment to patient access; 3. to determine health care utilization and related costs associated with non-physician health care provider treatment.
The purpose of this study is to test the use of Calypso beacon implants as a way to determine where the lung tumor is located during radiation treatment. The Calypso beacons are small devices that are implanted in the lungs, near the tumor. They are able to send a signal to a tracking system to show where they are, and where the tumor is, as the patient holds their breath for the radiation treatment. The investigators want to find out what effects, good and/or bad, that this has on the patient and the way they treat the cancer in your lungs.
The care of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) has been significantly improved by learning from experimental and physiological research works and by a series of randomized controlled trials. The mortality of this syndrome remains however high. Numerous experimental and clinical works demonstrated that a ventilatory mode authorizing the patient to make, from the acute phase, spontaneous breathing cycles superimposed on assistance delivered by the ventilator (BIPAP-APRV mode) allowed to improve gas exchanges and hemodynamic tolerance of the ventilation while reducing the need for sedative drugs. This ventilatory mode could also reduce the risk of diaphragmatic dysfunction induced by ventilation. Consequently, our hypothesis is that this ventilatory mode could allow a reduction of mortality in ARDS patients. The aim of this multicenter, prospective, randomized, controlled, open study is to compare the effects of two ventilatory strategies on the mortality of ARDS patients and placed under mechanical ventilation.
Prolong mechanical ventilation cause to respiratory muscle weakness and high risk to weaning failure,the investigators hypothesize that 1. Specific inspiratory muscle training (SIMT) using threshold loaded breathing device (BreatheMAX V.1)in patients with ventilator dependence will improve inspiratory muscle strength 2. SIMT will improve lung function in patients with ventilatory dependence. 3. SIMT will improve weaning success in patients with ventilatory dependence.