(1) PASG has high sensitivity (97.3%), and typical characteristics (98.8%).
(2) The aetiology of the complication is discussed and recommendations for the safe use of the PASG are made.
(3) Acute cardiac tamponade was created in a large animal model in an effort to investigate the hemodynamic and oxygen transport variables during the inflation of the pneumatic antishock garment (PASG) to two different pressures (60 and 80 mm Hg).
(4) In fact, PASG were on and inflated in all patients who presented in cardiac arrest.
(5) Ten patients after coronary artery bypass surgery were studied with PPR and PASG application (3 to 20 hours post-surgery), and PASG alone (24 to 30 hours post-surgery).
(6) Irreversible hypotension with subsequent cardiovascular collapse has been reported as a catastrophic complication of inappropriate pneumatic antishock garment (PASG) deflation.
(7) Right and left ventricular end-diastolic pressures increased 100% (P less than 0.01); mean pulmonary arterial and aortic pressures increased 77 and 25%, respectively (P less than 0.01); systemic vascular resistance increased 22% (P less than 0.05) and pulmonary vascular resistance did not change in normal subjects at maximum PASG inflation.
(8) When PASG deflation hemodynamics were compared to preinflation data, mean arterial pressure decreased 14 mm Hg (P less than .01); mean pulmonary pressure decreased 6 mm Hg (P less than .01); and mean right atrial and left ventricular end-diastolic pressures decreased 4 and 6 mm Hg, respectively (P less than .01).
(9) Phagaquosonographies (PASG) of 100 normal subjects and 223 patients with cardiac cancer (CC) were analyzed.
(10) The patients were randomized into control and pneumatic external counterpressure groups by an alternate-day assignment of PASG use.
(11) If hypotensive shock is present, the PASG antishock garment should be applied.
(12) After PASG inflation, carotid artery flow increased by 50%, and femoral artery flow decreased tenfold.
(13) Nine of ten animals who had the combined treatment with PASG and infusion of saline developed a fulminant pulmonary edema.
(14) With PASG application, cardiac index was depressed and systemic vascular resistance was elevated at 10, 20, and 30 minutes following hemorrhage.
(15) Even low PASG pressures carry a high risk of precipitating CS.
(16) Five patients had PASG pressure of 20 mm Hg compared with 10 degrees Trendelenburg, eight patients had 20 and 40 mm Hg PASG application compared with 10 degrees Trendelenburg.
(17) Of the more than 300 articles that have appeared in the recent literature addressing the PASG, at least 190 have discussed specific scientific experiments in the animal laboratory, in the human laboratory, or in the clinical environment, in which results gathered addressed how, why, or if the PASG worked.
(18) All patients received the identical treatment protocol, with the sole exception of PASG application and inflation to full pressure prior to intravenous catheterization on an alternate day basis.
(19) The treatment with PASG alone, however, prolonged survival time significantly from a median survival time of 10 min in the control group, to greater than 120 min in the treated group.
(20) PASG significantly prolonged the survival time and the time during which a sensory evoked response could be observed.
Pneumatic
Definition:
(a.) Alt. of Pneumatical
Example Sentences:
(1) and respirated with a pneumatic respiration pump and the parameters blood pressure, pH and blood gases (pO2, pCO2) were continuously recorded.
(2) A compensator connected to the section consisting of the pump-main line-operating member and including a pneumatic resistance and a flaxid non-elastic container enables it in combination with the feedback to maintain through the volumetric displacement of the gas, or changing the pump diaphragm position, the stability of the gas volume in the pneumatic transmission element of the assisted circulation apparatus.
(3) Adjunctive usage of elastic stockings and intermittent compression pneumatic boots in the perioperative period was helpful in controlling leg swelling and promoting wound healing.
(4) Impulses sufficiently large to stun adult sheep, with a non-penetrating impact head, were produced from an adapted Hantover pneumatic cattle stunner.
(5) To control for the lower baseline BP that was present in rats with A-V fistula, a second series of studies was performed in which renal perfusion pressure was reduced in normal rats to 110 mm Hg with a servocontrolled pneumatic cuff.
(6) Long-term synchronized left ventricular bypass has been performed in calves using pneumatically powered pumps having a smooth lining fabricated of segmented polyurethane.
(7) We report what we believe to be the first patient in whom an esophagram immediately after a routine, uncomplicated pneumatic dilation revealed complete esophageal obstruction.
(8) Pneumatic retinopexy is a recent innovation in the treatment of uncomplicated retinal detachments due to a superior retinal break extending for 30 degrees or less.
(9) A common although infrequently recognized complication associated with the use of a pneumatic tourniquet is profuse bleeding from the wound after deflation of the tourniquet.
(10) We quantified the variability in extent of sinus pneumatization (a measure of sinus development) in infants and young children.
(11) Around the time of puberty the pneumatization usually penetrates up to the spheno-occipital synchondrosis.
(12) Eight pneumatic vibrating power hand tools, representing tools commonly used in an automobile assembly plant, were studied.
(13) Intermittent pneumatic compression was used for edema treatment.
(14) Most devices were pneumatically ("breath") controlled.
(15) After 4 minutes of ventricular fibrillation CPR was performed with the use of a pneumatic piston compressor.
(16) Rhinoliquorrhoea is the leading symptome of an osteodural defect of the base of the skull, the pneumatic system of the rhinobasis being affected.
(17) We believe that pneumatic dilatation should be considered in patients with systemic sclerosis and severe dysphagia where reflux oesophagitis is not apparent.
(18) On the ground of a research into the influence produced by the administered doses and the density of the aerosol on the therapeutic activity the expediency of employing aerosol generators based upon pneumatic atomization by using the principle of ejecting an additional volume of air, as units yielding a substantial curative effect, is demonstrated.
(19) Calibrated scleral suction cups pneumatically connected to a sensitive transducer are used to provide well reproducible ocular pulse recordings.
(20) The study does not answer the question of whether orbital contour will be maintained on a long-term basis adjacent to a pneumatized sinus following reconstruction with a bioabsorbable implant.