Effect of lung-protective ventilation on severe Pseudomonas aeruginosa pneumonia and sepsis in rats.

Pneumonia caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa carries a high rate of morbidity and mortality. A lung-protective strategy using low tidal volume (V(T)) ventilation for acute lung injury improves patient outcomes. The goal of this study was to determine whether low V(T) ventilation has similar utility in severe P.

[Clinical use of the VIA Blood Gas Monitor System].

VIA Blood Gas Monitor System (Baxter) withdrawals and reinforces blood automatically and measures pH, PaCO2, PaO2, sodium, potassium, and hematocrit. We evaluated VIA for use during cardiopulmonary bypass in 8 patients and during differential lung ventilation in 6 patients. The bias and precision were calculated on all the measured parameters.

[Hemoglobin levels and weight gain after coronary bypass grafting by use of intraoperative hemodilution and autologous blood transfusion].

We investigated the relationship between the degree of hemodilution during cardiopulmonary bypass (CPB) and weight gain after coronary bypass grafting by use of intraoperative hemodilution and autologous blood transfusion. There is no significant difference in weight gain between the higher hemoglobin group (Hb > or = 6 g.dl-1) and the lower hemoglobin group (Hb < 6 g.