High-flow nasal cannula for stabilisation of very premature infants: A prospective observational study.

Aim: To assess the feasibility, safety and efficacy of using a high-flow nasal cannula (HFNC) for stabilising very preterm infants after birth.

Methods: A prospective observational study included preterm infants born at 28 + 0 to 31 + 6 weeks' gestation between February 2021 and December 2022 at the General University Hospital in Prague. Following delayed cord clamping, HFNC was administered at a flow rate of 8 L/min through the infants' nostrils.

Ventilator variables predicting extubation readiness in extremely premature infants with prolonged mechanical ventilation: A retrospective observational study.

Background: The current generation of neonatal ventilators enables periodic storage of set, measured, and calculated ventilatory parameters.

Design: Retrospective observational study.

Objectives: To evaluate and identify the ventilatory, demographic, and clinical pre-extubation variables that are significant for estimating extubation readiness.

A stylet use may be beneficial for elective and rescue intubation of prematurely born infants < 30 weeks.

Background: Recent studies have reported that using a stylet does not provide any advantages during intubation within a diverse infant population. Our research focuses on the issue, specifically in premature infants who undergo elective or rescue intubation (EI or RI) in the delivery room (DR).

Methods: We conducted a single-center retrospective observational study comparing the number of intubation attempts, the duration of intubation procedure until successful, and the rate of associated desaturations exceeding 20%.

The Development of a Specific Nanofiber Bioreceptor for Detection of and from Air.

Polluted air and the presence of numerous airborne pathogens affect our daily lives. The sensitive and fast detection of pollutants and pathogens is crucial for environmental monitoring and effective medical diagnostics. Compared to conventional detection methods (PCR, ELISA, metabolic tests, etc.

Present results and methods of vectorcardiographic diagnostics of ischemic heart disease.

This article presents an overview of existing approaches to perform vectorcardiographic (VCG) diagnostics of ischemic heart disease (IHD). Individual methodologies are divided into categories to create a comprehensive and clear overview of electrical cardiac activity measurement, signal pre-processing, features extraction and classification procedures. An emphasis is placed on methods describing the electrical heart space (EHS) by several features extraction techniques based on spatiotemporal characteristics or signal modelling and signal transformations.

Reducing the time delay of oxygen transport to the neonate on continuous positive airway pressure support: A bench study.

Background: Premature newborns often require oxygen support as part of their therapy. Systems for oxygen administration are developed to assure adequate oxygenation of newborns. Several factors were identified in the systems that contribute to the time delay between the change in the set inspiratory oxygen fraction and its actual delivery to tissues.

Review of present method of glucose from human blood and body fluids assessment.

the work has been aimed to create an overview of available and used methods and ways to determine the concentration of glucose in body fluids, especially from a technical point of view. It also provides an overview of the clinical features of these methods. The survey found that today's market offers a large number of options and approaches to the issue.

Tidal volume significantly affects oxygenation in healthy pigs during high-frequency oscillatory ventilation compared to conventional ventilation.

Background: The role of high-frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV) has long been debated. Numerous studies documented its benefits, whereas several more recent studies did not prove superiority of HFOV over protective conventional mechanical ventilation (CV). One of the accepted explanations is that CV and HFOV act differently, including gas exchange.

A New Approach for Testing Fetal Heart Rate Monitors.

In this paper, a new approach for the periodical testing and the functionality evaluation of a fetal heart rate monitor device based on ultrasound principle is proposed. The design and realization of the device are presented, together with the description of its features and functioning tests. In the designed device, a relay element, driven by an electric signal that allows switching at two specific frequencies, is used to simulate the fetus and the mother's heartbeat.

Design and Development of a Novel Invasive Blood Pressure Simulator for Patient's Monitor Testing.

This paper presents a newly-designed and realized Invasive Blood Pressure (IBP) device for the simulation on patient's monitors. This device shows improvements and presents extended features with respect to a first prototype presented by the authors and similar systems available in the state-of-the-art. A peculiarity of the presented device is that all implemented features can be customized from the developer and from the point of view of the end user.

Response time of indirectly accessed gas exchange depends on measurement method.

Noninvasive techniques are routinely used for assessment of tissue effects of lung ventilation. However, comprehensive studies of the response time of the methods are scarce. The aim of this study was to compare the response time of noninvasive methods for monitoring of gas exchange to sudden changes in the composition of the inspired gas.

Models of PaO2 response to the continuous distending pressure maneuver during high frequency oscillatory ventilation in healthy and ARDS lung model pigs.

Unlabelled: Purpose/Aim : High-frequency oscillatory ventilation (HFOV) is a method of ventilation that theoretically achieves the goals of lung protective ventilation in acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) patients. It is characterized by a rapid delivery of small tidal volumes at high frequencies oscillating around a continuous distending pressure (CDP). Optimization of CDP is not an easy task and it is titrated empirically in the clinical practice.