Publications by authors named "F Curto"
Article Synopsis
- The study investigates how percutaneous tracheostomy (PT) affects respiratory compliance and end-expiratory lung volume during mechanical ventilation, focusing on patients with acute brain injury.
- Results showed a significant decrease in lung volume and compliance immediately after PT, but a recruitment maneuver (RM) successfully reversed the loss and restored lung function.
- The research also suggests that dynamic inflation during PT can help prevent lung derecruitment, and introduces a new formula to monitor this risk in real-time using electrical impedance tomography.
Objectives: To compare respiratory system compliance (C rs ) calculation during controlled mechanical ventilation (MV) and, subsequently, during assisted MV.
Design: This is a single-center, retrospective, observational study.
Setting: This study was conducted on patients admitted to Neuro-ICU of Niguarda Hospital (tertiary referral hospital).
Background: Alternative noninvasive methods capable of excluding intracranial hypertension through use of transcranial Doppler (ICPtcd) in situations where invasive methods cannot be used or are not available would be useful during the management of acutely brain-injured patients. The objective of this study was to determine whether ICPtcd can be considered a reliable screening test compared to the reference standard method, invasive ICP monitoring (ICPi), in excluding the presence of intracranial hypertension.
Methods: This was a prospective, international, multicenter, unblinded, diagnostic accuracy study comparing the index test (ICPtcd) with a reference standard (ICPi), defined as the best available method for establishing the presence or absence of the condition of interest (i.