Background: Good nutrition affects children's health, well-being, and learning, and schools offer an important setting to promote healthy behaviors that can last a lifetime. Once children reach school age, they spend more of their waking hours in school than in any other environment. Children's eating habits may be easier to influence than those of adults.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAlthough nasal continuous positive airway pressure or non-invasive ventilation is used to manage some patients with acute lung injury due to COVID-19, such patients also demonstrate increased minute ventilation which makes it hard, if the device is used in line with the manufacturer's instructions, to achieve adequate oxygen delivery. In addition, if a hospital contains many such patients, then it is possible that the oxygen requirements will exceed infrastructure capacity. Here we describe a simple modification of two exemplar ventilators normally used for domiciliary ventilation, which substantially increased the fraction of inspired oxygen (FiO) delivered.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFStudy Objectives: To determine whether the change in bladder pressure (Pblad) and central venous pressure (Pcvp) may reflect the changes in esophageal pressure (Pes) and gastric pressure (Pgas) when inspiratory pressure support (IPS) is altered.
Design: Prospective clinical study.
Setting: The ICUs of a teaching hospital.