Potential for the lung recruitment and the risk of lung overdistension during 21 days of mechanical ventilation in patients with COVID-19 after noninvasive ventilation failure: the COVID-VENT observational trial.

Background: Data on the lung respiratory mechanics and gas exchange in the time course of COVID-19-associated respiratory failure is limited. This study aimed to explore respiratory mechanics and gas exchange, the lung recruitability and risk of overdistension during the time course of mechanical ventilation.

Methods: This was a prospective observational study in critically ill mechanically ventilated patients (n = 116) with COVID-19 admitted into Intensive Care Units of Sechenov University.

[Factors influencing the effectiveness of physical rehabilitation after myocardial infarction].

The aim of the study was to compare initial clinical, hemodynamic, and vegetative parameters in patients with myocardial infarction (MI) who had undergone physical rehabilitation with different results. The subjects were 106 male patients aged 48.6 +/- 0.

[Electrostimulation of the skeletal muscles in sanatorium rehabilitation of patients with myocardial infarction].

Passive physical training with ESMA device was used in rehabilitation of 81 men with complicated myocardial infarction treated in sanatorium Taraskul. The training had no negative clinical and hemodynamic reactions, increased exercise tolerance, reduced volume of heart chambers, aggravated neither arrhythmia nor autonomic imbalance. This method of physical training is recommended if standard rehabilitative programs are impossible.