A persistent belief, experts say, but a wrong and potentially injurious one.
· 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).
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.
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.
In this subgroup, the numbers needed to treat to prevent one fall, one outdoor fall, and one injurious fall within 12 months were 1.1, 1.9, and 2.6.
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.
These investigators started administration of NI one hour after the commencement of the injurious stimulation on awake sheep over 24 48 hrs [ 13, 14, 25].
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Based on number of and severity of their self-reported falls during the monitoring period, participants were classified as no falls (n = 119; 52%); one fall without injuries (severe enough to cause a visit to the ED) (n = 51; 22%); two or more falls without injuries (n = 40; 17%); or one injurious fall (severe enough to cause a visit to the ED) (n = 20; 9%).
We defined an injurious fall as one that resulted in any injury.
