Sentence examples for mechanical ventilation initiation from inspiring English sources
Strikingly, the median delay between the first respiratory sample positive for Aspergillus spp. and mechanical ventilation initiation was 3 days, consistent with a previous study in mechanically ventilated non-ARDS patients [11], suggesting that respiratory tract colonization by Aspergillus spores had occurred prior to ARDS onset.
Mechanical ventilation initiation could have several hemodynamic consequences, ranging from tachycardia to life-threatening collapse.
Figure 3 Drug dosages of both groups up to the fifth day after mechanical ventilation initiation.
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) was defined as an ICUAP arising more than 48 h after mechanical ventilation initiation.
Critically ill cancer patients could benefit from the administration of low-dose hydrocortisone in the days surrounding mechanical ventilation initiation.
Total SOFA scores followed the same tendency (Table 3). Figure 4 Physiologic variables of both groups up to the fifth day after mechanical ventilation initiation.
These differences in outcome most likely are related to the different designs of these studies, patient characteristics, and durations of mechanical ventilation before initiation of weaning.
However, gender, recent surgery, median length of mechanical ventilation after initiation of CVVH therapy, median dose and therapeutic time of CVVH and proportion of patients receiving phosphate supplementation demonstrated no significance between the survivor and nonsurvivor cohorts (Table 3).
However, gender, recent surgery, median length of mechanical ventilation after initiation of CVVH therapy, median dose and therapeutic time of CVVH, the proportion of patients receiving phosphate supplementation and the occurrence of hypophosphatemia (67.2% vs. 70.0%; P = 0.435) demonstrated no significance between the survivor and nonsurvivor cohorts.
It is widely accepted that pneumonia occurring after initiation of mechanical ventilation should initially be treated with antibiotics active against MDR pathogens.
Mean time on mechanical ventilation before ECMO initiation was 4.6 days (95% CI 3.7 5.5).
