Background Weaning difficulties occur in 31% of total intubated patients, and result in prolonged weaning duration. A computer-driven automated weaning system can perform a spontaneous breathing trial (SBT) automati...
Background The recruitment maneuver (RM) has been shown to improve oxygenation in some patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome. But there is a lack of standardization and lack of clinical studies to prove ...
Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) affects thoracic structures, particularly mediastinum and lung parenchyma, in up to 43% of patients at some stage in the course of the disease,1 Endobronchial involvement, however, is ...
This study was supported by a grant from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.30270502)
Obstructive sleep apnea syndrome (OSAS) was a disease of breath obstacle happened in the process of sleep. The central mechanism of OSAS has not yet been fully elucidated. Most of studies focused on raphe nuclei and...
Objective To investigate the changes in respiratory and circulatory functions in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients during sequential invasive-noninvasive mechanical ventilation therapy,and evaluat...
The epidemic of SARS in Guangdong province of China isbeginning to be restrained. In May 2003, Dr. ZhongNanshan, head of the Guangzhou Institute of RespiratoryDisease, presented at a training course in Beijing for
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the impact of proportional assist ventilation (PAV) on tolerance and breathlessness in ventilated chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), and to describe the patient-ventilator interact...
OBJECTIVE: To compare the influence of cardiac-pulmonary function on clinical acute respiratory failure patients using Proportional assist ventilation (PAV), Pressure support ventilation (PSV) and intermittent positiv...