Sentence examples for ventilatory effort from inspiring English sources
Adequacy of the depth of anesthesia was regularly assessed (lack of muscle tone, absence of spontaneous ventilatory effort).
Severe hyperlactatemia relating to ventilatory effort has been reported in asthmatic patients during acute exacerbations [ 15].
Obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) is characterized by repetitive cessation of breathing with preserved ventilatory effort during sleep.
Whilst doing this exercise, the ventilatory effort, inspiratory and expiratory gasses, blood pressure and electrocardiogram are recorded.
22 23 The outcomes of many of these relate to adverse effects of backboards such as increased ventilatory effort, ischaemic pain and discomfort.
The marked weight loss found in many cancer patients with progression of the disease may also compromise ventilatory effort (Dudgeon et al, 2001b).
A final limitation could be that in some patients with acute respiratory failure, ventilatory efforts may be higher than that of our simulated efforts.
34 The MIP and MEP will be determined by ventilatory efforts initiated from the functional residual capacity by requesting maximum inspiration and maximum expiration, respectively.
Important to remember, however, is that these indicators are only useful if prerequisites are met - including the absence of any spontaneous ventilatory efforts, a regular rhythm, and ventilatory settings similar to those in the original studies.
These factors include the presence of spontaneous ventilatory efforts, irregular heart rhythm, ventilator settings different from those in the original studies [ 7, 8], cardiovascular drugs [ 8], pulmonary artery hypertension and impeding or manifest right heart failure [ 1, 2] - one or several of these factors may be present even in the majority of intensive care unit patients.
Hence, it must be considered that creatine supplementation given to pregnant women even for only several weeks in late pregnancy is likely to increase the resistance of the fetal brain to oxygen deprivation or acidemic/hypercapnia at birth, or if poor ventilatory efforts by the neonate require resuscitative procedures immediately after birth.
