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The length of mechanical ventilation showed better correlation with DRG funding (r = 0.86), then with actual costs (r = 0.66).
Indications for mechanical ventilation showed a pattern resembling other ICUs in Brazil, but were different from other countries.
Serial dynamic pulmonary shunt measurements during mechanical ventilation showed distinct variations over the respiratory cycle in both healthy and injured lungs.
Moreover, a small control group of critically ill patients at our ICU, who did not undergo CPR but received vasopressors and mechanical ventilation, showed no elevation of EPCs (data not shown).
Costs associated with mechanical ventilation showed a similar picture, with mean costs estimated as €3,080 (mean, 8.3 days) for the on-demand group and €4,360 (mean, 12 days; P = 0.004) for the planned group (mean cost difference, €1,280).
Interestingly, a study using an animal model of long term mechanical ventilation showed that mucus flow was reversed toward the lungs in the semi-recumbent position and that it could be drained out of the lungs in the horizontal position [ 39].
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The duration of mechanical ventilation shown by categories was analyzed using a chi-square test.
This post-hoc observational study in critically ill patients undergoing prolonged mechanical ventilation shows that high early-protein intake (defined as intake at day 4) is associated with lower hospital mortality and early energy overfeeding with higher mortality, independent of APACHE II score and the presence of sepsis.
Patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome receiving mechanical ventilation show inhomogeneous lung aeration.
Moreover, immune responses during RSV bronchiolitis requiring mechanical ventilation show low T-cell proliferative responses and IFN- γ secretion [ 62, 63].
In contrast, repeated courses of antenatal or postnatal steroids to facilitate extubation from mechanical ventilation show conflicting results with reported increases in cerebral palsy and behavioural changes.
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