Search Results - "Heunks, Leo"
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Critical illness-associated diaphragm weakness
Published in Intensive care medicine (01-10-2017)“…Diaphragm weakness is highly prevalent in critically ill patients. It may exist prior to ICU admission and may precipitate the need for mechanical ventilation…”
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Physiology of the Respiratory Drive in ICU Patients: Implications for Diagnosis and Treatment
Published in Critical care (London, England) (24-03-2020)“…This article is one of ten reviews selected from the Annual Update in Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine 2020. Other selected articles can be found online…”
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Diaphragm Pathology in Critically Ill Patients With COVID-19 and Postmortem Findings From 3 Medical Centers
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Divergent SARS‐CoV‐2‐specific T‐ and B‐cell responses in severe but not mild COVID‐19 patients
Published in European journal of immunology (01-12-2020)“…Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2) is the causative agent of the current coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) pandemic. Understanding…”
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Diaphragm-Protective Mechanical Ventilation to Improve Outcomes in ICU Patients?
Published in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine (15-01-2018)“…[...]diaphragm dysfunction is highly prevalent. [...]this study demonstrates a relationship between changes in diaphragm thickness and diaphragm effort…”
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Oxygen-induced hypercapnia in COPD: myths and facts
Published in Critical care (London, England) (29-10-2012)“…During our medical training, we learned that oxygen administration in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) induces hypercapnia through…”
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Clinical strategies for implementing lung and diaphragm-protective ventilation: avoiding insufficient and excessive effort
Published in Intensive care medicine (01-12-2020)“…Mechanical ventilation may have adverse effects on both the lung and the diaphragm. Injury to the lung is mediated by excessive mechanical stress and strain,…”
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Levosimendan efficacy and safety : 20 Years of SIMDAX in clinical use
Published in Journal of cardiovascular pharmacology (01-07-2020)“…Copyright © 2020 The Author(s). Published by Wolters Kluwer Health, Inc. Levosimendan was first approved for clinical use in 2000, when authorization was…”
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The impact of critical illness on the expiratory muscles and the diaphragm assessed by ultrasound in mechanical ventilated children
Published in Annals of intensive care (27-08-2020)“…Background Critical illness has detrimental effects on the diaphragm, but the impact of critical illness on other major muscles of the respiratory pump has…”
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Determining the optimal number of lung ultrasound zones to monitor COVID-19 patients: can we keep it ultra-short and ultra-simple?
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Functional assessment of the diaphragm by speckle tracking ultrasound during inspiratory loading
Published in Journal of applied physiology (1985) (01-11-2017)“…Assessment of diaphragmatic effort is challenging, especially in critically ill patients in the phase of weaning. Fractional thickening during inspiration…”
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Monitoring of the respiratory muscles in the critically ill
Published in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine (01-01-2013)“…Evidence has accumulated that respiratory muscle dysfunction develops in critically ill patients and contributes to prolonged weaning from mechanical…”
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Highlights in acute respiratory failure
Published in European respiratory review (31-03-2018)“…Acute respiratory failure (ARF) is a devastating condition for patients that results from either impaired function of the respiratory muscle pump or from…”
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Estimation of the diaphragm neuromuscular efficiency index in mechanically ventilated critically ill patients
Published in Critical care (London, England) (27-09-2018)“…Diaphragm dysfunction develops frequently in ventilated intensive care unit (ICU) patients. Both disuse atrophy (ventilator over-assist) and high respiratory…”
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Respiratory muscle ultrasonography: methodology, basic and advanced principles and clinical applications in ICU and ED patients—a narrative review
Published in Intensive care medicine (01-04-2020)“…Respiratory muscle ultrasound is used to evaluate the anatomy and function of the respiratory muscle pump. It is a safe, repeatable, accurate, and non-invasive…”
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Potentially modifiable factors contributing to outcome from acute respiratory distress syndrome: the LUNG SAFE study
Published in Intensive care medicine (01-12-2016)“…Purpose To improve the outcome of the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), one needs to identify potentially modifiable factors associated with…”
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Expiratory Muscle Relaxation-Induced Ventilator Triggering: A Novel Patient-Ventilator Dyssynchrony
Published in Chest (01-06-2022)“…In critically ill patients receiving mechanical ventilation, expiratory muscles are recruited with high respiratory loading and/or low inspiratory muscle…”
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Abdominal functional electrical stimulation to assist ventilator weaning in critical illness: a double-blinded, randomised, sham-controlled pilot study
Published in Critical care (London, England) (24-07-2019)“…For every day a person is dependent on mechanical ventilation, respiratory and cardiac complications increase, quality of life decreases and costs increase by…”
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ERS clinical practice guidelines: high-flow nasal cannula in acute respiratory failure
Published in The European respiratory journal (01-04-2022)“…High-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) has become a frequently used noninvasive form of respiratory support in acute settings; however, evidence supporting its use has…”
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The Calcium Sensitizer Levosimendan Improves Human Diaphragm Function
Published in American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine (2012)“…Acquired diaphragm muscle weakness is a key feature in several chronic conditions, including chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, congestive heart failure,…”
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