The Task Force reviewed and discussed the available literature on the effectiveness of
physiotherapy for acute and chronic critically ill adult patients. Evidence from randomized …

Anaemia of chronic disease (ACD), with chronically low levels of circulating haemoglobin, is
an immune driven abnormality that occurs in many inflammatory diseases, and also in …

Noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIV) has a long tradition for the treatment of chronic
respiratory failure and more recently has also been applied in acute respiratory failure. Based …

Background Evidence is weak for the ability of long-term non-invasive positive pressure
ventilation (NPPV) to improve survival in patients with stable hypercapnic chronic obstructive …

This study was designed to evaluate the performance of movement detectors (pedometers)
in measuring daily activity of patients with chronic lung disease. Three groups of subjects …

Objective. Hospital mortality and survival rates of long-term ventilated patients. Design.
Retrospective cohort study. Setting. Specialised national weaning centre. Intervention. Protocol-…

Today, invasive and non-invasive home mechanical ventilation have become a well-established
treatment option. Consequently, in 2010 the German Society of Pneumology and …

The most commonly used mode of noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NMV) is volume-controlled
intermittent positive pressure ventilation (IPPV). Pressure support ventilation has …

Background To accommodate the increasing number of patients requiring prolonged
weaning from mechanical ventilation, specialized weaning centers have been established for …

… in group A and only mildly increased in group B (table 3). Pulmonary hypertension was
more severe in group A than in group B and worsened during exercise in both groups (table 3). …