Publications by authors named "Michael C F Cheng"
Article Synopsis
- * Data was collected from 116 patients over four years, revealing that those diagnosed with hypercapnic respiratory failure had specific characteristics, such as higher body mass index and a greater likelihood of having insulin-dependent diabetes.
- * Follow-up results showed that nearly half of the patients adhered to their prescribed positive airway pressure therapy, indicating a need for improved compliance strategies among this population.
Pre-operative screening for sleep disordered breathing: obstructive sleep apnoea and beyond.
Breathe (Sheff)
September 2022
Unlabelled: Sleep disordered breathing describes an important group of conditions that causes abnormal nocturnal gas exchange, with important implications in the peri-operative management plan. An understanding of the pathophysiology behind obstructive sleep apnoea and other disorders that may lead to hypoventilation can help to prevent complications. Patients with these disorders may be minimally symptomatic and it requires careful screening in the pre-operative assessment process for a diagnosis to be made.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Recovery from Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) may be protracted, and patients may need prolonged ventilatory support. We present clinical data from a tertiary referral weaning center managing patients with GBS requiring prolonged ventilatory support.
Methods: A retrospective review of patients managed in a 34-bed specialist ventilator weaning facility in London, United Kingdom, between 2006 and 2017.
Background And Objective: Home mechanical ventilation (HMV) is used in heterogeneous conditions underlying chronic hypercapnic respiratory failure, but there are sparse data on long-term clinical outcomes. The aim was to systematically analyse the time and the circumstances of death on HMV.
Methods: All-cause mortality data of HMV patients were prospectively collected between 2008 and 2018 in a large tertiary centre.