Recovery and safety with prolonged high-frequency jet ventilation for catheter ablation of atrial fibrillation: A hospital registry study from a New England healthcare network.

Study Objective: To investigate post-procedural recovery as well as peri-procedural respiratory and hemodynamic safety parameters with prolonged use of high-frequency jet ventilation (HFJV) versus conventional ventilation in patients undergoing catheter ablation for atrial fibrillation.

Design: Hospital registry study.

Setting: Tertiary academic teaching hospital in New England.

High Mechanical Power and Driving Pressures are Associated With Postoperative Respiratory Failure Independent From Patients' Respiratory System Mechanics.

Objectives: High mechanical power and driving pressure (ΔP) have been associated with postoperative respiratory failure (PRF) and may be important parameters guiding mechanical ventilation. However, it remains unclear whether high mechanical power and ΔP merely reflect patients with poor respiratory system mechanics at risk of PRF. We investigated the effect of mechanical power and ΔP on PRF in cohorts after exact matching by patients' baseline respiratory system compliance.

Intensity of one-lung ventilation and postoperative respiratory failure: A hospital registry study.

Background: Studies linked a high intensity of mechanical ventilation, measured as high mechanical power (MP) to postoperative respiratory failure (PRF) in the setting of two-lung ventilation. We investigated whether a higher MP during one-lung ventilation (OLV) is associated with PRF.

Methods: In this registry-based study, adult patients who underwent general anesthesia with OLV for thoracic surgeries between 2006 and 2020 at a New England tertiary healthcare network were included.

Mechanical power and 30-day mortality in mechanically ventilated, critically ill patients with and without Coronavirus Disease-2019: a hospital registry study.

Background: Previous studies linked a high intensity of ventilation, measured as mechanical power, to mortality in patients suffering from "classic" ARDS. By contrast, mechanically ventilated patients with a diagnosis of COVID-19 may present with intact pulmonary mechanics while undergoing mechanical ventilation for longer periods of time. We investigated whether an association between higher mechanical power and mortality is modified by a diagnosis of COVID-19.

Prevalence and association of non-medical cannabis use with post-procedural healthcare utilisation in patients undergoing surgery or interventional procedures: a retrospective cohort study.

Background: There is paucity of data regarding prevalence and key harms of non-medical cannabis use in surgical patients. We investigated whether cannabis use in patients undergoing surgery or interventional procedures patients was associated with a higher degree of post-procedural healthcare utilisation.

Methods: 210,639 adults undergoing non-cardiac surgery between January 2008 and June 2020 at an academic healthcare network in Massachusetts, USA, were included.