Relationships between capnogram parameters by mainstream and sidestream techniques at different breathing frequencies.

Capnography, routinely used in operating rooms and intensive care units, reveals essential information on lung ventilation and ventilation-perfusion matching. Mainstream capnography directly measures CO in the breathing circuit for accurate analysis and is considered a reference technique. Sidestream capnography, however, analyzes gas away from the patient leading to potentially less accurate measures.

Individual benefit in heart sparing during DIBH-supported left breast radiotherapy.

Introduction: Deep-inspirational breath hold (DIBH) is an option for heart protection in breast radiotherapy; we intended to study its individual benefit.

Materials And Methods: 3DCRT treatment planning was performed in a cohort of 103 patients receiving radiotherapy of the whole breast (WBI)/chest wall (CWI) ± nodal regions (NI) both under DIBH and free breathing (FB) in the supine position, and in the WBI only cases prone (n = 45) position, too. A series of patient-related and heart dosimetry parameters were analyzed.

Impact of information technology supported serious leisure gardening on the wellbeing of older adults: The Turntable project.

Objective: The study presented in this paper aimed to assess the effect of an Information Technology enabled community gardening program for older adults, developed by an international consortium.

Methods: We have executed a quantitative, pre- and post-test field trial with older adult volunteers to test the proposed programme in two European countries, Italy and Belgium (n=98). We used standardized and ad hoc questionnaires to measure changes in the volunteers' mental and psychological state during the trial.

Chronic postoperative pain after non-intubated uniportal VATS lobectomy.

Introduction: Patients undergoing thoracic surgery are at increased risk of developing, long-lasting pain. Beyond the non-surgical factors, the type of operation, including the number of incisions, and the anesthetic assessment seemed to be important factors, although some studies are controversial. The aim of our study was to examine the presence of chronic postoperative pain after non-intubated uniportal VATS lobectomy.