Publications by authors named "Thiago Bassi"

Objectives: Intubation is a common procedure in acute hypoxemic respiratory failure (AHRF), with minimal evidence to guide decision-making. We conducted a survey of when to intubate patients with AHRF to measure the influence of clinical variables on intubation decision-making and quantify variability.

Design: Factorial vignette-based survey asking "Would you recommend intubation?" Respondents selected an ordinal recommendation from a 5-point scale ranging from "Definite no" to "Definite yes" for up to ten randomly allocated vignettes.

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Background: In critically ill patients, deep sedation and mechanical ventilation suppress the brain-diaphragm-lung axis and are associated with cognitive issues in survivors.

Methods: This exploratory crossover design study investigates whether phrenic nerve stimulation can enhance brain activity and connectivity in six deeply sedated, mechanically ventilated patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Results: Our findings indicate that adding phrenic stimulation on top of invasive mechanical ventilation in deeply sedated, critically ill, moderate acute respiratory distress syndrome patients increases cortical activity, connectivity, and synchronization in the frontal-temporal-parietal cortices.

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Article Synopsis
  • Patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) often suffer diaphragm dysfunction due to deep sedation and mechanical ventilation.
  • The study investigated the effects of temporary transvenous diaphragm neurostimulation (TTDN) combined with mechanical ventilation on diaphragm injury and cytokine levels in pigs with induced ARDS.
  • Results showed that TTDN significantly reduced abnormal diaphragm tissue and altered cytokine patterns compared to mechanical ventilation alone, suggesting its potential as a protective strategy in ARDS management.
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Diaphragm inactivity during invasive mechanical ventilation leads to diaphragm atrophy and weakness, hemodynamic instability, and ventilatory heterogeneity. Absent respiratory drive and effort can, therefore, worsen injury to both lung and diaphragm and is a major cause of failure to wean. Phrenic nerve stimulation (PNS) can maintain controlled levels of diaphragm activity independent of intrinsic drive and as such may offer a promising approach to achieving lung and diaphragm protective ventilatory targets.

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Importance: Identifying biomarkers that, at hospital admission, predict subsequent delirium will help to focus our clinical efforts on prevention and management.

Objective: The study aimed to investigate biomarkers at hospital admission that may be associated with delirium during hospitalization.

Data Sources: A librarian at the Fraser Health Authority Health Sciences Library performed searches from 28 June 2021 to 9 July 2021, using the following sources: Medline, EMBASE, Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials, Cochrane Methodology Register, and the Database of Abstracts of Reviews and Effects.

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Mechanical ventilation (MV)-induced diaphragmatic atrophy can contribute to weaning difficulties. A temporary transvenous diaphragm neurostimulation (TTDN) device that elicits diaphragm contractions has previously been shown to mitigate atrophy during MV in a preclinical model; however, its effects on different myofiber types remain unknown. It is important to examine these effects, as each myofiber type plays a role in the range of diaphragmatic movements to ensure successful liberation from MV.

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In porcine healthy-lung and moderate acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) models, groups that received phrenic nerve stimulation (PNS) with mechanical ventilation (MV) showed lower hippocampal apoptosis, and microglia and astrocyte percentages than MV alone. Explore whether PNS in combination with MV for 12 h leads to differences in hippocampal and brainstem tissue concentrations of inflammatory and synaptic markers compared to MV-only animals. Compare tissue concentrations of inflammatory markers (IL-1α, IL-1β, IL-6, IL-8, IL-10, IFN-γ, TNFα and GM-CSF), pre-synaptic markers (synapsin and synaptophysin) and post-synaptic markers (disc-large-homolog 4, N-methyl-D-aspartate receptors 2A and 2B) in the hippocampus and brainstem in three groups of mechanically ventilated pigs with injured lungs: MV only (MV), MV plus PNS every other breath (MV + PNS50%), and MV plus PNS every breath (MV + PNS100%).

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Introduction: Mechanical ventilator breaths provided to deeply sedated patients have an abnormal volume distribution, encouraging alveolar collapse in dependent regions and promoting alveolar overdistention in non-dependent regions. Collapse and overdistention both start with the first breath and worsen over time, driving ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI). This is exacerbated when the lung is already injured or has increased heterogeneity.

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Unlabelled: In a porcine healthy lung model, temporary transvenous diaphragm neurostimulation (TTDN) for 50 hours mitigated hippocampal apoptosis and inflammation associated with mechanical ventilation (MV).

Hypothesis: Explore whether TTDN in combination with MV for 12 hours mitigates hippocampal apoptosis and inflammation in an acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) preclinical model.

Methods And Models: Compare hippocampal apoptosis, inflammatory markers, and serum markers of neurologic injury between never ventilated subjects and three groups of mechanically ventilated subjects with injured lungs: MV only (LI-MV), MV plus TTDN every other breath, and MV plus TTDN every breath.

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Increased lung heterogeneity from regional alveolar collapse drives ventilator-induced lung injury in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS). New methods of preventing this injury require study. Our study objective was to determine whether the combination of temporary transvenous diaphragm neurostimulation (TTDN) with standard-of-care volume-control mode ventilation changes lung mechanics, reducing ventilator-induced lung injury risk in a preclinical ARDS model.

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Mechanical ventilation (MV) is associated with hippocampal apoptosis and inflammation, and it is important to study strategies to mitigate them. To explore whether temporary transvenous diaphragm neurostimulation (TTDN) in association with MV mitigates hippocampal apoptosis and inflammation after 50 hours of MV. Normal-lung porcine study comparing apoptotic index, inflammatory markers, and neurological-damage serum markers between never-ventilated subjects, subjects undergoing 50 hours of MV plus either TTDN every other breath or every breath, and subjects undergoing 50 hours of MV (MV group).

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Tidal volume delivered by mechanical ventilation to a sedated patient is distributed in a nonphysiological pattern, causing atelectasis (underinflation) and overdistension (overinflation). Activation of the diaphragm during controlled mechanical ventilation in these sedated patients may provide a method to reduce atelectasis and alveolar inhomogeneity, protecting the lungs from ventilator-induced lung injury while also protecting the diaphragm by preventing ventilator-induced diaphragm dysfunction. We studied the hypothesis that diaphragm contractions elicited by transvenous phrenic nerve stimulation, delivered in synchrony with volume-control ventilation, would reduce atelectasis and lung inhomogeneity in a healthy, normal lung pig model.

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We conducted a systematic review following the PRISMA protocol primarily to identify publications that assessed any links between mechanical ventilation (MV) and either cognitive impairment or brain insult, independent of underlying medical conditions. Secondary objectives were to identify possible gaps in the literature that can be used to inform future studies and move toward a better understanding of this complex problem. The preclinical literature suggests that MV is associated with neuroinflammation, cognitive impairment, and brain insult, reporting higher neuroinflammatory markers, greater evidence of brain injury markers, and lower cognitive scores in subjects that were ventilated longer, compared to those ventilated less, and to never-ventilated subjects.

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Mechanical ventilation is the cornerstone of the Intensive Care Unit. However, it has been associated with many negative consequences. Recently, ventilator-induced brain injury has been reported in rodents under injurious ventilation settings.

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Objective: to identify the difficulties in diagnosing and treating neuropathic pain caused by leprosy and to understand the main characteristics of this situation.

Methods: 85 patients were treated in outpatient units with reference to leprosy and the accompanying pain. We used a questionnaire known as the Douleur Neuropathic 4 test and we conducted detailed neurological exams.

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The pathogenesis of spontaneous cervical artery dissection remains unknown. Infection-mediated damage of the arterial wall may be an important triggering mechanism. We describe a 21 year-old man with respiratory infection (bronchial pneumonia) which was diagnosed and treated with antibiotic few days prior to the right internal carotid artery dissection.

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