Are volume recruitment maneuvers less deleterious than persistent low lung volumes in the atelectasis-prone rabbit lung during high-frequency oscillation?
These data demonstrate that the potential pulmonary risk of repeated lung stretch during volume recruitment is significantly less than the damage arising from the avoidance of such maneuvers in lungs in which alveolar recruitment is possible. We conclude that sustained inflations during high-frequency oscillatory ventilation produce the benefits of increased oxygenation for a given mean airway pressure plus decreased progression of lung injury.
The majority of HD subjects given a multivitamin with cholecalciferol at dialysis had improvement in their vitamin D status.