Is ECG-guidance a helpful method to correctly position a central venous catheter during prehospital emergency care?
ECG-guidance is a safe and feasible technique which significantly improved the rate of CVCs correctly positioned during prehospital emergency care.
Mechanical respiratory impedance measurement proved to be a useful method to study the mechanical properties of the respiratory system during high-frequency oscillatory ventilation. The results suggest that vagally mediated reflex changes in respiratory system mechanics are associated with high-frequency oscillatory ventilation, depending on the ventilatory variables that are used.