Water content of delivered gases during non-invasive ventilation in healthy subjects
Lellouche F, Maggiore SM, Lyazidi A, Deye N, Taillé S, Brochard L In this study the authors measured hygrometry during non invasive ventilation (NIV) delivered to healthy subjects with different humidification strategies: heated humidifier (HH), heat and moisture exchanger, (HME) or no humidification (NoH). They found that during NIV, with NoH, gas humidity was very [...]
Within-day repeatability of the endurance shuttle walk test
Revill S.M, Williams J., Sewell L., Collier R., Singh S.J. This study was designed to determine the need for a practice walk for the endurance shuttle walk test (ESWT) following the performance of two incremental shuttle walk tests (ISWTs) – one practice and one test – on the same day. Forty-four patients with a [...]
Narrative review: Incentive spirometry following thoracic surgery: what should we be doing?
Agostinia P and Singh S In this review four studies and one systematic review were selected from all the published data retrieved after an extensive search. Only scientific papers and those pertaining to thoracic surgery or the postoperative treatment of patients with incentive spirometry were included. In conclusion the authors found that physiological evidence [...]
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