Publications by authors named "Olivia Farrell"
Article Synopsis
- A new way to understand pelvic pain looks at how biology, psychology, and social factors all play a part, but there aren't enough standard tools to study it properly for young people.
- Researchers looked for tools that help measure factors that can cause pelvic pain and its effects on teens’ lives, such as their health and feelings.
- It’s important to use these tools to understand the full picture of pelvic pain in adolescents, and researchers hope to create better methods for studying this in the future.
The transition to air breathing at birth is a seminal respiratory event common to all humans, but the intrathoracic processes remain poorly understood. The objectives of this prospective, observational study were to describe the spatiotemporal gas flow, aeration, and ventilation patterns within the lung in term neonates undergoing successful respiratory transition. Electrical impedance tomography was used to image intrathoracic volume patterns for every breath until 6 minutes from birth in neonates born by elective cesearean section and not needing resuscitation.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFRegional ventilation characteristics during non-invasive respiratory support in preterm infants.
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed
July 2021
Objectives: To determine the regional ventilation characteristics during non-invasive ventilation (NIV) in stable preterm infants. The secondary aim was to explore the relationship between indicators of ventilation homogeneity and other clinical measures of respiratory status.
Design: Prospective observational study.
Aim: Maintaining normothermia is a tenet of neonatal care. However, neonatal thermal care guidelines applicable to intra-hospital transport beyond the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) and during surgery or magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) are lacking. The aim of this study is to determine the proportion of infants normothermic (36.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFVolume guaranteed? Accuracy of a volume-targeted ventilation mode in infants.
Arch Dis Child Fetal Neonatal Ed
March 2018
Objectives: Volume-targeted ventilation (VTV) is widely used and may reduce lung injury, but this assumes the clinically set tidal volume (V) is accurately delivered. This prospective observational study aimed to determine the relationship between V, expiratory V (V) and endotracheal tube leak in a modern neonatal -volume-targeted ventilator (VTV) and the resultant partial arterial pressure of carbon dioxide (PaCO) relationship with and without VTV.
Design: Continuous inflations were recorded for 24 hours in 100 infants, mean (SD) 34 (4) weeks gestation and 2483 (985) g birth weight, receiving synchronised mechanical ventilation (SLE5000, SLE, UK) with or without VTV and either the manufacturer's V4 (n=50) or newer V5 (n=50) VTV algorithm.