Increasing partner communication and understanding during pregnancy: evaluation of 'The Great Pregnancy Quiz'.

Objective: To evaluate a Quiz designed to enhance communication and understanding in expectant parents.

Background: A supportive and understanding relationship is associated with better maternal mental health outcomes. Many services therefore advocate that couples should communicate openly with each other, particularly about worries or concerns either have.

Treating Chronic Hypoventilation With Automatic Adjustable Versus Fixed EPAP Intelligent Volume-Assured Positive Airway Pressure Support (iVAPS): A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Objectives: New noninvasive ventilation (NIV) modes can automatically adjust pressure support settings to deliver effective ventilation in response to varying ventilation demands. It is recommended that fixed expiratory positive airway pressure (FixedEPAP) is determined by attended laboratory polysomnographic (PSG) titration. This study investigated whether automatically determined EPAP (AutoEPAP) was noninferior to FixedEPAP for the control of obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) during intelligent volume-assured pressure support (iVAPS) treatment of chronic hypoventilation.

Study of a Novel APAP Algorithm for the Treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Women.

Study Objectives: To assess the efficacy of a novel female-specific autotitrating continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP) algorithm (AutoSet for her, AfH) in premenopausal women relative to a standard autotitrating algorithm (AutoSet, S9) (ResMed Ltd., Bella Vista, New South Wales, Australia).

Design: Prospective randomised crossover noninferiority trial.

Effects on upper airway collapsibility of presence of a pharyngeal catheter.

Catheters that traverse the pharynx are often in place during clinical or research evaluations of upper airway function. The purpose of this study was to determine whether the presence of such catheters affects measures of upper airway collapsibility itself. To do so, pharyngeal critical closing pressure (Pcrit) and resistance upstream of the site of collapse Rus) were assessed in 24 propofol-anaesthetized subjects (14 men) with and without a multi-sensor oesophageal catheter (external diameter 2.

Elastic properties of the central airways in obstructive lung diseases measured using anatomical optical coherence tomography.

Rationale: Our understanding of how airway remodeling affects regional airway elastic properties is limited due to technical difficulties in quantitatively measuring dynamic, in vivo airway dimensions. Such knowledge could help elucidate mechanisms of excessive airway narrowing.

Objectives: To use anatomical optical coherence tomography (aOCT) to compare central airway elastic properties in control subjects and those with obstructive lung diseases.

Abnormal knee joint position sense in individuals with patellofemoral pain syndrome.

The purpose of this cross-sectional study was to compare knee joint position sense (JPS) in 20 individuals with and 20 without patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS). Five active tests with ipsilateral limb matching responses were performed at 20 degrees and 60 degrees flexion under non-weightbearing conditions, and at 40 degrees flexion under uni- and bi-lateral weightbearing conditions. The response errors were calculated as the difference between each target and response position (accuracy) and the standard deviation of these differences (reliability).