Publications by authors named "Ariela Tofani"
Decannulation is a rehabilitation milestone in patients with Disorders of Consciousness (DoC). investigate the relationship between decannulation and improvement of responsiveness (IR) in DoC. 236 tracheostomized patients with severe Acquired Brain Injury and DoC admitted in the Intensive Rehabilitation Unit were retrospectively included.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: To identify the effect of some clinical characteristics of severe acquired brain injury (sABI) patients on decannulation success during their intensive rehabilitation unit (IRU) stay.
Design: Nonconcurrent cohort study.
Setting: Don Gnocchi Foundation Institute.
Article Synopsis
- The study focuses on using virtual reality simulators as a training method for EBUS-TBNA, a procedure in interventional pulmonology, to improve the skills of inexperienced bronchoscopists before they practice on real patients.
- Fifteen experienced bronchoscopists took part in an assessment using the EBUS-STAT evaluation tool, which measured their skills before and after a training session that included theory and simulation practice.
- Results showed significant improvement in their EBUS-TBNA skills thanks to the virtual reality training, and the EBUS-STAT tool was effective in measuring these improvements, despite some limitations related to specific scoring items.
Background: The poor treatment outcomes of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (TB) and the emergence of extensively drug-resistant TB and extremely and totally drug-resistant TB highlight the urgent need for new antituberculous drugs and other adjuvant treatment approaches.
Objectives: We have treated cavitary tuberculosis by the application of endobronchial one-way valves (Zephyr®; Pulmonx Inc., Redwood City, Calif.