<strong>Rationale: </strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Acute respiratory failur...<strong>Rationale: </strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Acute respiratory failure is an uncommon complication of pregnancy. However, it is the most frequent organ dysfunction associated with obstetric admissions to an intensive care unit. The obstetric population is a different group due to its physiology and the presence of the fetus that lacks evidence in the literature within the subject of ventilatory support. Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) is often avoided due to the lack of knowledge on the safety and efficacy of this modality. </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Currently,</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> there are no guidelines for the management of respiratory failure in pregnancy. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Objectives: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">To provide evidence in support of the use of NIPPV as a safe and reasonable modality for pregnant patients with respiratory failure. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Methods: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">We retrospectively reviewed medical records of 29 pregnant patients of the Obstetric Critical Care Unit of a tertiary hospital in Panamá City who received NIPPV from 2013 to 2015. Failure to response was defined as the lack of increase in the </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">pa</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">O</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">/FiO</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> ratio or clinical deterioration 6 hours after initiating NIPPV. Demographics, indication for NIPPV, duration of treatment, as well as maternal and fetal outcomes were collected. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Measurements</span></b> <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">and</span></b> <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Main</span></b> <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Mean age was 28.4 ± 6 years, mean body mass index 27.4 ± 3.3, and mean gestational age at admission was 30</span><sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;">5/7</span></sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> ± 5 weeks. Twenty-four patients (82.8%) met the criteria for acute lung injury (ALI) and an additional two (6.9%) for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The mean duration of ventilation was 50.6 ± 17.27 hours. Statistically significant differences were noted between the </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">pa</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">O</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">/FiO</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> ratios in failure and successful patients within 2 hours of NIPPV therapy (P = 0.007) and </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">pa</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">O</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">/FiO</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> ratio within 6 hours of NIPPV therapy (P = 0.03). Success was defined when the patient was administered NIPPV, resulting in an improvement (increase in </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">p</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">a/FiO</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> ratio) of her ventilatory parameters. Three patients (10.3%) failed to respond to NIPPV and needed to be converted to invasive mechanical ventilation. Patients who required intubation had a longer duration of ICU stay (P = 0.006) and overall hospital stay (P = 0.03). None of patients presented aspiration during NIPPV therapy. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Conclusion: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The current series is the largest report of pregnant patients requiring ventilatory support who received NIPPV as first line of therapy. This report shows the usefulness of this ventilation modality, avoiding intubation with its risks, of a significant number of patients, especially ventilator-associated pneumonia.</span></span></span></span>展开更多
Background: Pulmonary hypertension is defined as a mean arterial pressure in the pulmonary artery exceeding 20 mm Hg at rest, measured by means of right heart catheterization. Patients with pulmonary hypertension unde...Background: Pulmonary hypertension is defined as a mean arterial pressure in the pulmonary artery exceeding 20 mm Hg at rest, measured by means of right heart catheterization. Patients with pulmonary hypertension undergoing surgical procedures such as hemiarthroplasty present a high risk of fatal complications. Nonetheless, there are no widely accepted protocols explaining their perioperative care in great detail. Case presentation: We present a case with an 89-years-old patient, with comorbidities such as GOLD 4D chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and, as a consequence of this, severe pulmonary hypertension with signs of right ventricular dysfunction, thus requiring of pulmonary vasodilator, that has suffered a subcapital hip fracture requiring urgent surgery. Surgery is carried out successfully, under regional lumbar-sacral plexus block and sedation assisted by non-invasive ventilation. Conclusion: Multidisciplinary specialized treatment, preoperative optimization, as well as the careful selection of both the surgical and anesthetic techniques to be used, are among the strategies that improve the perioperative outcome in patients with pulmonary hypertension with right ventricle systolic dysfunction. Regional lumbar-sacral plexus block plus sedation is a technique that maintains hemodynamic stability;however, these patients require advance measures and postoperative monitoring under intensive care.展开更多
Background: Cardiothoracic surgery is a common cause of acute respiratory failure and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. We aimed to compare the outcomes of open heart surgery patients treated using...Background: Cardiothoracic surgery is a common cause of acute respiratory failure and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. We aimed to compare the outcomes of open heart surgery patients treated using oxygen delivery devices with patients who receive NIV as a first-line therapy for hypoxemic respiratory failure. Materials and Methods: 40 patients who developed acute hypoxemic respiratory failure after open heart surgery and admitted to cardiothoracic ICU 20 patients received NIV and 20 patient received oxygen by venture mask. For all patients the following measurements were performed before and after CPAP AND Venture use: CBC, blood urea, serum creatinine body temperature, chest X-ray, Arterial blood gases (arterial pH, sodium bicarbonate, pcO2, SpO2 and PaO2-to-FiO2 ratio). Results: Mean PO2 and SO2 have increased after using of both venture and Cpap, increase in both PCO2 and HCO3 levels after using Venturi mask, CPAP mask was superior to venturi mask in avoiding the need of intubation, decreasing The ICU stay median length and also median length of hospitalization, all were lower in CPAP group than venture group. Also the mortality rate was lower in CPAP group than the venturi group. Conclusion: Using CPAP mask in severe AHRF following open heart surgery can avoid intubation, decreases the levels of tachypnea and arterial hypoxemia, decreases ICU stay, the length of hospitalization and also decreases the mortality rate compared with patients receiving high-concentration oxygen therapy with venture mask.展开更多
BACKGROUND: Metronome guidance is a feasible and effective feedback technique to improve the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR). The rate of the metronome should be set between 100 to 120 ticks/minute and t...BACKGROUND: Metronome guidance is a feasible and effective feedback technique to improve the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR). The rate of the metronome should be set between 100 to 120 ticks/minute and the speed of ventilation may have crucial effect on the quality of ventilation. We compared three different metronome rates(100, 110, 120 ticks/minute) to investigate its effect on the quality of ventilation during metronome-guided 30:2 CPR.METHODS: This is a prospective, randomized, crossover observational study using a Respi Trainer r. To simulate 30 chest compressions, one investigator counted from 1 to 30 in cadence with the metronome rate(1 count for every 1 tick), and the participant performed 2 consecutive ventilations immediately following the counting of 30. Thirty physicians performed 5 sets of 2 consecutive(total 10) bag-mask ventilations for each metronome rate. Participants were instructed to squeeze the bag over 2 ticks(1.0 to 1.2 seconds depending on the rate of metronome) and defl ate the bag over 2 ticks. The sequence of three different metronome rates was randomized.RESULTS: Mean tidal volume significantly decreased as the metronome rate was increased from 110 ticks/minute to 120 ticks/minute(343±84 m L vs. 294±90 m L, P=0.004). Peak airway pressure significantly increased as metronome rate increased from 100 ticks/minute to 110 ticks/minute(18.7 vs. 21.6 mm Hg, P=0.006).CONCLUSION: In metronome-guided 30:2 CPR, a higher metronome rate may adversely affect the quality of bag-mask ventilations. In cases of cardiac arrest where adequate ventilation support is necessary, 100 ticks/minute may be better than 110 or 120 ticks/minute to deliver adequate tidal volume during audio tone guided 30:2 CPR.展开更多
Increasing evidence indicates that aberrant expressions of some microRNAs are associated with cancer progression.However,the roles and biological mechanisms of miRNA-16-5p in human non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC)are...Increasing evidence indicates that aberrant expressions of some microRNAs are associated with cancer progression.However,the roles and biological mechanisms of miRNA-16-5p in human non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC)are not to be well studied.Here,we validated that the expression of miR-16-5p was decreased significantly in NSCLC samples and cell lines.The correlation between the clinicopathological features of NSCLC and the miR-16-5p expression showed that the expression of miR-16-5p in non-small cell lung cancer was linked with the advanced TNM stage,positive lymph node metastasis,with short overall survival(OS).Also,a negative correlation between miR-16-5p and Fermitin family member 2(FERMT2)was observed,implying there may be a potential link about their regulation.The hypothesis was further confirmed by in-silico analysis and dual-luciferase reporter assay.Moreover,we demonstrated that the transfections of miR-16-5p mimics could alter some biological characteristics of NSCLC cells remarkably accomplished by the expression variance of FERMT2 in vitro and in vivo assays.Summarily,this study demonstrated that miR-16-5p,as a tumor suppression factor in NSCLC by targeting FERMT2,could serve as one promising biomarker in the prediction for NSCLC patients.展开更多
Fourty-eight patients (ASA physical status Ⅰ - Ⅱ) undergoing selected thoracotomy and pulmonectomy were studied. They were divided into two groups according to different respiratory modes, two-lung ventilation (TLV)...Fourty-eight patients (ASA physical status Ⅰ - Ⅱ) undergoing selected thoracotomy and pulmonectomy were studied. They were divided into two groups according to different respiratory modes, two-lung ventilation (TLV) and onelung ventilation (OLV) or TLV and OLV with a Bain cyclic system for CPAP on the side of operated lung. PETCO2 and PaCO2 were measured after 30 min TLV,30 min and 60 min OLV, and repeated TLV (R-TLV) 30 min after pulmonectomy, to evaluate the difference between PETCO2 and PaCO2 in OLV and to observethe effect of abating hypoxemia and discharge of CO2 in OLV with Bain system.Our results showed that the PaCO2 and PETCO2 in different test groups were normal though the measured values in OLV were slightly higher than that in TLV (P<0. 05) , and then they were recovered after R-TLV (P>0. 05). There was nosignificant difference between group 1. and 2. in OLV (P>0. 05). There was aclose correlation between PETCO2 and PaCO2 (P<0. 05). The differences of the calculated P(a-ET)CO2 and radio of PETCO2/PaCO2 in different ventilation modes were not significant. Hypoxemia in OLV was corrected by Bain system, but the discharge of CO2 was not affected. The results showed that measurement of PET CO2 as a non-invasive procedure can be commonly used to monitor OLV.展开更多
文摘<strong>Rationale: </strong><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Acute respiratory failure is an uncommon complication of pregnancy. However, it is the most frequent organ dysfunction associated with obstetric admissions to an intensive care unit. The obstetric population is a different group due to its physiology and the presence of the fetus that lacks evidence in the literature within the subject of ventilatory support. Noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) is often avoided due to the lack of knowledge on the safety and efficacy of this modality. </span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Currently,</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> there are no guidelines for the management of respiratory failure in pregnancy. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Objectives: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">To provide evidence in support of the use of NIPPV as a safe and reasonable modality for pregnant patients with respiratory failure. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Methods: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">We retrospectively reviewed medical records of 29 pregnant patients of the Obstetric Critical Care Unit of a tertiary hospital in Panamá City who received NIPPV from 2013 to 2015. Failure to response was defined as the lack of increase in the </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">pa</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">O</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">/FiO</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> ratio or clinical deterioration 6 hours after initiating NIPPV. Demographics, indication for NIPPV, duration of treatment, as well as maternal and fetal outcomes were collected. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Measurements</span></b> <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">and</span></b> <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Main</span></b> <b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Results: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Mean age was 28.4 ± 6 years, mean body mass index 27.4 ± 3.3, and mean gestational age at admission was 30</span><sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;">5/7</span></sup><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> ± 5 weeks. Twenty-four patients (82.8%) met the criteria for acute lung injury (ALI) and an additional two (6.9%) for acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). The mean duration of ventilation was 50.6 ± 17.27 hours. Statistically significant differences were noted between the </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">pa</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">O</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">/FiO</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> ratios in failure and successful patients within 2 hours of NIPPV therapy (P = 0.007) and </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">pa</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">O</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">/FiO</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> ratio within 6 hours of NIPPV therapy (P = 0.03). Success was defined when the patient was administered NIPPV, resulting in an improvement (increase in </span></span></span></span><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;"><span style="font-family:Verdana;">p</span></span></span><span><span><span style="font-family:""><span style="font-family:Verdana;">a/FiO</span><sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;">2</span></sub><span style="font-family:Verdana;"> ratio) of her ventilatory parameters. Three patients (10.3%) failed to respond to NIPPV and needed to be converted to invasive mechanical ventilation. Patients who required intubation had a longer duration of ICU stay (P = 0.006) and overall hospital stay (P = 0.03). None of patients presented aspiration during NIPPV therapy. </span><b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">Conclusion: </span></b><span style="font-family:Verdana;">The current series is the largest report of pregnant patients requiring ventilatory support who received NIPPV as first line of therapy. This report shows the usefulness of this ventilation modality, avoiding intubation with its risks, of a significant number of patients, especially ventilator-associated pneumonia.</span></span></span></span>
文摘Background: Pulmonary hypertension is defined as a mean arterial pressure in the pulmonary artery exceeding 20 mm Hg at rest, measured by means of right heart catheterization. Patients with pulmonary hypertension undergoing surgical procedures such as hemiarthroplasty present a high risk of fatal complications. Nonetheless, there are no widely accepted protocols explaining their perioperative care in great detail. Case presentation: We present a case with an 89-years-old patient, with comorbidities such as GOLD 4D chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) and, as a consequence of this, severe pulmonary hypertension with signs of right ventricular dysfunction, thus requiring of pulmonary vasodilator, that has suffered a subcapital hip fracture requiring urgent surgery. Surgery is carried out successfully, under regional lumbar-sacral plexus block and sedation assisted by non-invasive ventilation. Conclusion: Multidisciplinary specialized treatment, preoperative optimization, as well as the careful selection of both the surgical and anesthetic techniques to be used, are among the strategies that improve the perioperative outcome in patients with pulmonary hypertension with right ventricle systolic dysfunction. Regional lumbar-sacral plexus block plus sedation is a technique that maintains hemodynamic stability;however, these patients require advance measures and postoperative monitoring under intensive care.
文摘Background: Cardiothoracic surgery is a common cause of acute respiratory failure and is associated with increased morbidity and mortality. We aimed to compare the outcomes of open heart surgery patients treated using oxygen delivery devices with patients who receive NIV as a first-line therapy for hypoxemic respiratory failure. Materials and Methods: 40 patients who developed acute hypoxemic respiratory failure after open heart surgery and admitted to cardiothoracic ICU 20 patients received NIV and 20 patient received oxygen by venture mask. For all patients the following measurements were performed before and after CPAP AND Venture use: CBC, blood urea, serum creatinine body temperature, chest X-ray, Arterial blood gases (arterial pH, sodium bicarbonate, pcO2, SpO2 and PaO2-to-FiO2 ratio). Results: Mean PO2 and SO2 have increased after using of both venture and Cpap, increase in both PCO2 and HCO3 levels after using Venturi mask, CPAP mask was superior to venturi mask in avoiding the need of intubation, decreasing The ICU stay median length and also median length of hospitalization, all were lower in CPAP group than venture group. Also the mortality rate was lower in CPAP group than the venturi group. Conclusion: Using CPAP mask in severe AHRF following open heart surgery can avoid intubation, decreases the levels of tachypnea and arterial hypoxemia, decreases ICU stay, the length of hospitalization and also decreases the mortality rate compared with patients receiving high-concentration oxygen therapy with venture mask.
文摘BACKGROUND: Metronome guidance is a feasible and effective feedback technique to improve the quality of cardiopulmonary resuscitation(CPR). The rate of the metronome should be set between 100 to 120 ticks/minute and the speed of ventilation may have crucial effect on the quality of ventilation. We compared three different metronome rates(100, 110, 120 ticks/minute) to investigate its effect on the quality of ventilation during metronome-guided 30:2 CPR.METHODS: This is a prospective, randomized, crossover observational study using a Respi Trainer r. To simulate 30 chest compressions, one investigator counted from 1 to 30 in cadence with the metronome rate(1 count for every 1 tick), and the participant performed 2 consecutive ventilations immediately following the counting of 30. Thirty physicians performed 5 sets of 2 consecutive(total 10) bag-mask ventilations for each metronome rate. Participants were instructed to squeeze the bag over 2 ticks(1.0 to 1.2 seconds depending on the rate of metronome) and defl ate the bag over 2 ticks. The sequence of three different metronome rates was randomized.RESULTS: Mean tidal volume significantly decreased as the metronome rate was increased from 110 ticks/minute to 120 ticks/minute(343±84 m L vs. 294±90 m L, P=0.004). Peak airway pressure significantly increased as metronome rate increased from 100 ticks/minute to 110 ticks/minute(18.7 vs. 21.6 mm Hg, P=0.006).CONCLUSION: In metronome-guided 30:2 CPR, a higher metronome rate may adversely affect the quality of bag-mask ventilations. In cases of cardiac arrest where adequate ventilation support is necessary, 100 ticks/minute may be better than 110 or 120 ticks/minute to deliver adequate tidal volume during audio tone guided 30:2 CPR.
基金was supported by grants from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81772281)the Shandong Province Taishan Scholar Project(No.ts201712067)+1 种基金the Major Research and Development Program of Shandong Province(No.2017GSF18124)the Natural Science Foundation of Shandong Province(No.ZR2020MH218).
文摘Increasing evidence indicates that aberrant expressions of some microRNAs are associated with cancer progression.However,the roles and biological mechanisms of miRNA-16-5p in human non-small cell lung cancer(NSCLC)are not to be well studied.Here,we validated that the expression of miR-16-5p was decreased significantly in NSCLC samples and cell lines.The correlation between the clinicopathological features of NSCLC and the miR-16-5p expression showed that the expression of miR-16-5p in non-small cell lung cancer was linked with the advanced TNM stage,positive lymph node metastasis,with short overall survival(OS).Also,a negative correlation between miR-16-5p and Fermitin family member 2(FERMT2)was observed,implying there may be a potential link about their regulation.The hypothesis was further confirmed by in-silico analysis and dual-luciferase reporter assay.Moreover,we demonstrated that the transfections of miR-16-5p mimics could alter some biological characteristics of NSCLC cells remarkably accomplished by the expression variance of FERMT2 in vitro and in vivo assays.Summarily,this study demonstrated that miR-16-5p,as a tumor suppression factor in NSCLC by targeting FERMT2,could serve as one promising biomarker in the prediction for NSCLC patients.
文摘Fourty-eight patients (ASA physical status Ⅰ - Ⅱ) undergoing selected thoracotomy and pulmonectomy were studied. They were divided into two groups according to different respiratory modes, two-lung ventilation (TLV) and onelung ventilation (OLV) or TLV and OLV with a Bain cyclic system for CPAP on the side of operated lung. PETCO2 and PaCO2 were measured after 30 min TLV,30 min and 60 min OLV, and repeated TLV (R-TLV) 30 min after pulmonectomy, to evaluate the difference between PETCO2 and PaCO2 in OLV and to observethe effect of abating hypoxemia and discharge of CO2 in OLV with Bain system.Our results showed that the PaCO2 and PETCO2 in different test groups were normal though the measured values in OLV were slightly higher than that in TLV (P<0. 05) , and then they were recovered after R-TLV (P>0. 05). There was nosignificant difference between group 1. and 2. in OLV (P>0. 05). There was aclose correlation between PETCO2 and PaCO2 (P<0. 05). The differences of the calculated P(a-ET)CO2 and radio of PETCO2/PaCO2 in different ventilation modes were not significant. Hypoxemia in OLV was corrected by Bain system, but the discharge of CO2 was not affected. The results showed that measurement of PET CO2 as a non-invasive procedure can be commonly used to monitor OLV.