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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to investigate the feasibility of using the Swiftsure Complete Care System (CCS) device as an adjunct to standard oral care procedures among intubated adult patients undergoing mechanical ventilation in the intensive care unit (ICU). This is a small study intended to gather initial feasibility before conducting a larger study. The feasibility of using the Swiftsure CSS device will be studied among 20 patients at a single study site.
Nursing is essential in critically ill patients care but with high risk of hypoxia, especially during mobilization. Full closed-loop control ventilation is well established for her safety in unselected ventilated critical care patients with different lung conditions compared to conventional ventilation. The aim of this study is to assess the ability of a full closed-loop control ventilation (Intellivent-ASV, TM) to reduce hypoxia during mobilization period in unselected ventilated patients.
The measure of the pulmonary artery pressure (PAP) is a very useful index in intensive care to estimate right ventricular after load. The reference technique for this measure is the right catheterism which is an invasive technique. It is possible to estimate the pulmonary artery pressure by using transthoracic echocardiography (TTE) which allows, using the continuous Doppler, the measure of maximum speed of tricuspid regurgitation (TRvmax). The measure of the TRvmax can however be difficult for intensive care patients with little echogenicity or impossible for those having no tricuspid leak. The evaluation of the tricuspid regurgitation is also particularly difficult using TOE. To avoid these drawbacks, one can use the analysis of the pulmonary ejection in the pulmonary artery (PAAT) with TOE. However, the data of the literature are controversial on this method and it was not validated in mechanically ventilated intensive care patients. The aim of this work is to compare three methods of measure of the PAP: the measure TRVMAX (by means of the tricuspid leak) by transthoracic echocardiography, the measure of the TAAP by transesophageal ultrasound and the direct measure of the pulmonary pressures by right catheterization, in ventilated patients already monitored with a catheter in the right cavities for usual indications in intensive care (ARDS, shock). We shall analyze then the correlation between the TRVmax, the TAAP and the pressures measured by the right catheterism which serves as reference technique.
Purpose: To test the hemodynamic profile generated by the MCS’s ActiveCare+SFT device in ventilated patients and compare it to that of the Kendall SCD Express. Design: Comparative, prospective study. Patients are their own controls.