Objective To evaluate nebulizer performance when heliox was used to power the nebulizer.
Methods Conventional and continuous nebulizer designs were evaluated. The conventional …

Background: Inhaled nitric oxide (NO) is a rapidly acting selective pulmonary vasodilator
that partially reverses the pathophysiology of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). …

OBJECTIVE: To understand the reported practices of and adherence to evidence-based
guidelines for the prevention of ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) among respiratory …

… Ritz: In a pandemic environment you would move everybody who is not on oxygen out of
the hospital if you can, and convert non-ICU hospital beds into ICU beds. We made some calcu…

Background Inhaled nitric oxide (NO) has the potential to improve ventilation/perfusion
matching and decrease pulmonary artery pressure in patients with profound respiratory failure. …

Patients ventilated in the pressure support mode must generate a negative airway pressure
before the ventilator will deliver a breath. Inserting a continuous-flow nebulizer between the …

Inhaled corticosteroids are effective but underused. This study evaluated the outpatient
management of emergency department (ED) patients presenting with acute asthma and the …

… Ritz and EJ Powers/ Estimation of nonlinear transfer … Ritz and EJ Powers/Estimation of
nonlinear transfer junctions … Ritz was supported partially by the Swiss National Science Foundation…

… Although our error estimates for the Ritz-Volterra projection Vh are not quite as sharp as
those known for the Ritz projection Rh, it turns out that, underthe appropriate additional …

Indications for administration of oxygen therapy include documented hypoxemia in adults,
children, and infants older than 28 days, arterial oxygen tension (PaO) of< 60 mm Hg or …