Very early exercise tailored by decisional algorithm helps relieve discomfort in ICU patients: an open-label pilot study.

Background: Existing algorithms do not allow for setting up finely tuned progression or intensity for exercise training in intensive care units (ICUs).

Aim: We aimed to assess the feasibility and tolerance of a very early exercise program tailored by using decisional algorithm that integrated both progression and intensity.

Design: Open-label pilot study.

Mixed qualitative and quantitative approach for validating an information booklet before total hip arthroplasty.

Objective: Providing patients with validated information before total hip arthroplasty may help lessen discrepancies between patients' expectations and the surgical result. This study sought to validate an information booklet for candidates for hip arthroplasty by using a mixed qualitative and quantitative approach based on a panel of patients and a sample of healthcare professionals.

Methods: We developed a booklet in accordance with the standard methods and then conducted focus groups to collect the opinions of a sample of multidisciplinary experts involved in the care of patients with hip osteoarthritis.

Effect of an intensive 3-week preoperative home rehabilitation programme in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease eligible for lung cancer surgery: a multicentre randomised controlled trial.

Introduction: Surgery is the standard curative treatment for lung cancer but is only possible in patients with local tumour and preserved exercise capacity. Improving fitness before surgery can reduce postoperative complications and mortality. However, preoperative rehabilitation remains difficult to implement for several reasons.

Systematic review of early exercise in intensive care: A qualitative approach.

Introduction: Practice guidelines recommend early physical therapy in intensive care units (ICU). Feasibility, safety and efficacy are confirmed by growing evidence-based data.

Purpose: To perform a qualitative systematic literature review on early exercise in ICUs, focused on the subject areas of "how to do", "for which patients" and "for what benefits".

Lung cancer: what are the links with oxidative stress, physical activity and nutrition.

Oxidative stress appears to play an essential role as a secondary messenger in the normal regulation of a variety of physiological processes, such as apoptosis, survival, and proliferative signaling pathways. Oxidative stress also plays important roles in the pathogenesis of many diseases, including aging, degenerative disease, and cancer. Among cancers, lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer in the Western world.

[Evolution of the early respiratory function after lung resection for cancer].

The assessment of the postoperative risk in lung resection is a major challenge for pneumologists and thoracic surgeons. Restrictive syndromes have been observed along with a disproportionate decrease of FEV1 in lobectomies. The purpose of the present study is to describe the early response of pulmonary function after thoracotomy and resection for lung cancer.

Prediction of hypoxemia and mechanical ventilation after lung resection for cancer.

Background: Hypoxemia usually occurs after thoracotomy, and respiratory failure represents a major complication.

Methods: To define predictive factors of postoperative hypoxemia and mechanical ventilation (MV), we prospectively studied 48 patients who had undergone lung resection. Preoperative data included, age, lung volume, force expiratory volume in one second (FEV1), predictive postoperative FEV1 (FEV1ppo), blood gases, diffusing capacity, and number of resected subsegments.