· Pneumonectomy followed by injurious one-lung ventilation results in increments in pulmonary vascular permeability and pulmonary edema in concert with derangement of gas exchange.
In the mammalian lung, repair of the alveolar epithelial cells after pressure was increased to injurious levels and then lowered to non-injurious ones was reported by Vlahakis et al. (Vlahakis et al., 2002).
In such instances, application of uniform ventilatory support, such as PEEP, inspiratory flow rate, respiratory rate and tidal volume, may be injurious to one lung even if beneficial to the other.
Falls among older people in institutional settings are an issue of growing concern. 1 While not all falls are injurious, the ones that cause serious injuries, such as hip fractures, are responsible for the major portion of the economic 2 and human cost 2 3 described in the literature.
Fallers were defined as people who had at least one injurious fall or at least two non-injurious falls during the 12 month follow-up period.
The contradicting results between the two models could be explained by the fact that the two models induce different types of liver injury and BALB/c mice may be susceptible to one injurious pathway but protected from another.
We defined an injurious fall as one that resulted in any injury.
Nor does a plaintiff who has been subject to injurious conduct of one kind possess by virtue of that injury the necessary stake in litigating conduct of another kind, although similar, to which he has not been subject.
Those with a self-reported history of at least one injurious fall during the initial 12 months follow-up period showed a significantly higher risk for sustaining subsequent injurious falls in the long term (hazard ratio 2.78; 95% CI, 1.40 5.50) compared to those with no falls.
Based on a self-reported history of falling in the past 5 years, older people were categorized as 'fallers' if they had experienced multiple falls or one injurious fall which required medical attention within one year prior to assessment22.
