Section edited by Raffaele Scala
This section concerns all aspects dealing with pulmonary critically ill patients: models of acute setting ; epidemiology, monitoring and treatment of acute respiratory failure; patho-physiology and clinical applications of invasive e non-invasive mechanical ventilation; weaning strategies; morbidity and mortality; ethical problems; imaging and interventional procedures; nurse and physiotherapist's issues.
Research article
Analysis of respiratory mechanics during mechanical ventilation (MV) is able to estimate resistive, elastic and inertial components of the working pressure of the respiratory system. Our aim was to discriminat...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:129
Published on: 6 October 2017
Study protocol
Acute respiratory failure (ARF) is still one of the most severe complications in immunocompromised patients. Our previous systematic review showed noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIV) reduced mortality, le...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:127
Published on: 20 September 2017
Research article
Sedation and/or analgesia can relieve the patient-ventilator asynchrony. However, whether sedation and/or analgesia can benefit the clinical outcome of the patients with interface intolerance is still unclear.
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:125
Published on: 15 September 2017
Research article
Expired gas (exhalome) analysis of ventilated critical ill patients can be used for drug monitoring and biomarker diagnostics. However, it remains unclear to what extent volatile organic compounds are present ...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:116
Published on: 22 August 2017
Research article
Positive-pressure mechanical ventilation is essential in assisting patients with respiratory failure in the intensive care unit and facilitating oxygenation in the operating room. However, it was also recogniz...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:105
Published on: 26 July 2017
Case report
To describe the experience of combination therapy with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation(ECMO), high-frequency oscillatory ventilation(HFOV) and prone positioning in treating severe respiratory failure cause...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:103
Published on: 20 July 2017
Case report
In patients with post-extubation respiratory distress, delayed reintubation may worsen clinical outcomes. Objective measures of extubation failure at the bedside are lacking, therefore clinical parameters are ...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:91
Published on: 17 June 2017
Research article
The lung-protective ventilation bundle has been shown to reduce mortality in adult acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). This concept has expanded to other areas of acute adult ventilation and is recomme...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:85
Published on: 23 May 2017
Research article
Broncho alveolar lavage (BAL) is widely used for investigative research to study innate, cellular and humoral immune responses, and in early phase drug trials. Conventional (multiple use) flexible bronchoscope...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:83
Published on: 5 May 2017
Research article
Foreign Body Aspiration (FBA) is a serious problem in children and delays in diagnosis and management can be devastating. The history is often vague, with subtle physical and chest radiograph abnormalities. Th...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:61
Published on: 13 April 2017
Case report
Extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) is performed as an acceptable life-saving bridging procedure in patients with severe acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS).To patients with avian influenza A (H7...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:38
Published on: 14 February 2017
Research article
Patients with Acute Hypercapnic Respiratory Failure (AHRF) who are unresponsive to appropriate medical treatment, are often treated with Noninvasive Positive Pressure Ventilation (NPPV). Clinical predictors of...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:35
Published on: 8 February 2017
Research article
Clinical trials have, so far, failed to establish clear beneficial outcomes of recruitment maneuvers (RMs) on patient mortality in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), and the effects of RMs on the card...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:34
Published on: 8 February 2017
Research article
Hyperoxia is common early in the course of resuscitation of critically ill patients. It has been associated with mortality in some, but not all, studies of cardiac arrest patients and other critically ill coho...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:29
Published on: 3 February 2017
Research article
Few studies have investigated the factors affecting aerosol delivery during non-invasive ventilation (NIV). Our aim was to investigate, using a bench-top model, the effect of different ventilator settings and ...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:9
Published on: 10 January 2017
Research article
Apnea developing as a result of oversedation is a potential clinical problem in patients undergoing flexible bronchoscopy (FB) under sedation. However, there are no reports of evaluation using a standardized m...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:7
Published on: 7 January 2017
Study protocol
The diagnosis of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) remains time-consuming and costly, the clinical tools lack specificity and a bedside test to exclude infection in suspected patients is unavailable. Breat...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2017 17:1
Published on: 3 January 2017
Research article
Saline fluid nebulization is highly recommend to combat the complications following tracheostomy, yet the understandings on the role of osmolality in saline solution for nebulization remain unclear.
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2016 16:179
Published on: 9 December 2016
Research article
The purpose of the study was to analyze the characteristics and evolution of non-invasive mechanical ventilation (NIV) in the postoperative period of heart surgery in children.
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2016 16:167
Published on: 29 November 2016
Review
Acute respiratory failure is a frequent complication in elderly patients especially if suffering from chronic cardio-pulmonary diseases. Non-invasive mechanical ventilation constitutes a successful therapeutic...
BMC Pulmonary Medicine 2016 16:150
Published on: 15 November 2016
