Publications by authors named "Combet M"
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- Post-intensive care syndrome (PICS) is a recognized issue that affects patients after their time in the ICU, involving ongoing physical, cognitive, and mental health problems.
- A survey sent to French ICUs revealed that only 28.6% provide follow-up visits, typically 3 to 6 months after discharge, with about 5% of patients attending these visits annually.
- Many ICUs identify barriers like staff shortages and low prioritization of PICS screening, yet nearly half of those not currently offering follow-ups expressed interest in starting within a year.
During acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), the increase in pulmonary vascular permeability and lung water induced by pulmonary inflammation may be related to altered lung compliance. A better understanding of the interactions between respiratory mechanics variables and lung water or capillary permeability would allow a more personalized monitoring and adaptation of therapies for patients with ARDS. Therefore, our main objective was to investigate the relationship between extravascular lung water (EVLW) and/or pulmonary vascular permeability index (PVPI) and respiratory mechanic variables in patients with COVID-19-induced ARDS.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFIntroduction: Para badminton entered the Paralympic world for the first time with the 2021 Paralympic Games in Tokyo. The particularity of this sport lies in the handling of the wheelchair and the racket simultaneously. To the best of our knowledge, and considering the youthfulness of this sport, it appears that no study has looked at the impact of the badminton racket on the kinetic and spatiotemporal parameters.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFPatients with severe lung injury usually have a high respiratory drive, resulting in intense inspiratory effort that may even worsen lung damage by several mechanisms gathered under the name "patient-self inflicted lung injury" (P-SILI). Even though no clinical study has yet demonstrated that a ventilatory strategy to limit the risk of P-SILI can improve the outcome, the concept of P-SILI relies on sound physiological reasoning, an accumulation of clinical observations and some consistent experimental data. In this review, we detail the main pathophysiological mechanisms by which the patient's respiratory effort could become deleterious: excessive transpulmonary pressure resulting in over-distension; inhomogeneous distribution of transpulmonary pressure variations across the lung leading to cyclic opening/closing of nondependent regions and pendelluft phenomenon; increase in the transvascular pressure favoring the aggravation of pulmonary edema.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe ASACUSA Micromegas Tracker (AMT; ASACUSA: Atomic Spectroscopy and Collisions Using Slow Antiprotons) was designed to be able to reconstruct antiproton-nucleon annihilation vertices in three dimensions. The goal of this device is to study antihydrogen formation processes in the ASACUSA cusp trap, which was designed to synthesise a spin-polarised antihydrogen beam for precise tests of Charge, Parity, and Time (CPT) symmetry invariance. This paper discusses the structure and technical details of an AMT detector built into such an environment, its data acquisition system and the first performance with cosmic rays.
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- The study investigates how 56Fe spallation occurs when it collides with hydrogen at high energy (1A GeV), utilizing the SPALADIN setup at GSI in a method called inverse kinematics.
- The research focuses on measuring the coincidence of low-energy light particles and fragments, which allows for a breakdown of the total reaction cross section into various deexcitation pathways.
- The findings indicate that among different deexcitation models tested, only the GEMINI model accurately explains the majority of the experimental results, suggesting that in this light system, multifragmentation may not be necessary to account for the observations.