Sentence examples for respiratory complexity from inspiring English sources

In this study, we tried to assess respiratory complexity during weaning trials, using different non-linear methods derived from theory of complex systems, in a cohort of surgical critically ill patients.

Several approaches have been used for the study of respiratory complexity.

Respiratory complexity during apnea and ECLS remains unchanged in a healthy state but decreases after ARDS.

We wanted to test the hypothesis that reduced respiratory complexity might discriminate weaning failure or success groups.

All indices of respiratory complexity were found to exhibit inverse changes between weaning failure and success groups.

Respiratory complexity (RC) as assessed by sample entropy (SampEn) is lower in patients failing spontaneous breathing trials.

Inhalation of volcanic ash, also known as tephra, creates respiratory complexities and irritation of the eye.

Weaning failure patients exhibited significantly decreased respiratory pattern complexity, reflected in reduced sample entropy and lyapunov exponents and increased DFA exponents of respiratory flow time series, compared to weaning success subjects (p < 0.001).

In another interesting study, Vallverdu and colleagues examined heart rate and respiratory pattern complexity in 78 patients during weaning trials using information flow analysis, which describes the regularity of signals by estimating the auto- and mutual information functions.

Schmidt and colleagues used these methods to compare respiratory variability and complexity during PSV and NAVA [ 23].

It seems that increased respiratory load reduces complexity of central oscillator output, as it has been suggested from the different studies discussed so far.