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Breath analysis: the approach towards clinical applicationsAnton Amann
Department of Anaesthesia and General Intensive Care, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstrasse 35, A 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Mini Rev Med Chem 7:115-29. 2007..Brief outlines are given of the research carried out to date, and prospects for the future of this potentially valuable non-invasive technique are indicated...
Volume of the effect compartment in simulations of neuromuscular blockVladimir Nigrovic
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical University of Ohio, Toledo, OH, USA
Theor Biol Med Model 2:41. 2005..The study examines the role of the volume of the effect compartment in simulations of neuromuscular block (NMB) produced by nondepolarizing muscle relaxants...- Reliability of old and new ventricular fibrillation detection algorithms for automated external defibrillatorsAnton Amann
Department of Anesthesia and General Intensive Care, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstr 35, A 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Biomed Eng Online 4:60. 2005..These algorithms should have a high detection quality, be easily implementable, and work in real time in an AED. Testing of these algorithms should be done by using a large amount of annotated data under equal conditions... - The prediction of defibrillation outcome using a new combination of mean frequency and amplitude in porcine models of cardiac arrestAnton Amann
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Leopold Franzens University Innsbruck, Anichstrasse 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Anesth Analg 95:716-22, table of contents. 2002..We showed that our combination of variables leads to an improved forecast, which may help to reduce harmful unsuccessful defibrillation attempts... - Detecting ventricular fibrillation by time-delay methodsAnton Amann
Department of Anesthesia and General Intensive Care, Innsbruck Medical University, A 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 54:174-7. 2007..This new algorithm is based on time-delay methods and outperforms all other investigated algorithms... - Monitoring of immune activation using biochemical changes in a porcine model of cardiac arrestA Amann
Department of Anesthesiology and General Intensive Care, University of Innsbruck, Austria
Mediators Inflamm 10:343-6. 2001..The kynurenine-per-tryptophan quotient may serve as a short-term measurement of immune activation and hence permit an estimate of the extent of immune activation... - Algorithms to analyze ventricular fibrillation signalsA Amann
Leopold Franzens University, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, Anichstrasse 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Curr Opin Crit Care 7:152-6. 2001..The universality of threshold values has to be examined, and promising new parameters have to be monitored over longer time periods and analyzed for the effects of chest compressions, ventilation, and concomitant vasopressor therapy... - The influence of atracurium, cisatracurium, and mivacurium on the proliferation of two human cell lines in vitroA Amann
Department of Anesthesiology, Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck, Austria
Anesth Analg 93:690-6. 2001.... - Surfactant protein B labelled with [(99m)Tc(CO)3(H20)3](+) retains biological activity in vitroA Amann
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Nucl Med Biol 28:243-50. 2001..Spreading properties and surface activity of (99m)Tc-labelled SP-B in an air/water interface coincided with those of unlabelled SP-B. (99m)Tc-SP-B seems to be a promising agent to observe surfactant spreading under clinical conditions... 
Reduction of CPR artifacts in the ventricular fibrillation ECG by coherent line removalAnton Amann
University Clinic of Anesthesia, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstr 35, A 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Biomed Eng Online 9:2. 2010..Therefore ECG-analysis during ongoing chest compression could provide a considerable progress in comparison with standard analysis techniques working only during "hands-off" intervals...- Analysing ventricular fibrillation ECG-signals and predicting defibrillation success during cardiopulmonary resuscitation employing N(alpha)-histogramsA Amann
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care, The Leopold Franzens University, Anichstrasse 35, 6020, Innsbruck, Austria
Resuscitation 50:77-85. 2001..We conclude, that N(alpha)-analysis was superior to mean fibrillation frequency analysis during CPR in predicting defibrillation success, and distinction between vasopressin versus epinephrine effects... - The effects of nifedipine on ventricular fibrillation mean frequency in a porcine model of prolonged cardiopulmonary resuscitationKarl H Stadlbauer
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Leopold-Franzens-University, Innsbruck, Austria
Anesth Analg 97:226-30, table of contents. 2003.... - Altered electrical activity of fibrillation process following thrombolytic therapy in out-of-hospital cardiac arrest patients with sustained ventricular fibrillationWolfgang Lederer
Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Anaesthesiology Research Laboratory, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstr 35, A 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Med Hypotheses 67:333-5. 2006.... - The beneficial effect of basic life support on ventricular fibrillation mean frequency and coronary perfusion pressureU Achleitner
Care and Emergency Medicine, Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, The Leopold Franzens University, Anichstrasse 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Resuscitation 51:151-8. 2001..CONCLUSIONS: In this porcine laboratory model, 90 s and 3 min of CPR improved ventricular fibrillation mean frequency, which correlated positively with coronary perfusion pressure, and mean arterial pressure... - [Analysis of ventricular fibrillation signals for the evaluation of defibrillation success in the treatment of ventricular fibrillation]W Lederer
, , Innsbruck, Austria
Anasthesiol Intensivmed Notfallmed Schmerzther 38:787-94. 2003..Analysis of VF ECG signals is a precondition of individually optimized defibrillation and may contribute substantially to an increased quality of CPR... - The efficacy of epinephrine or vasopressin for resuscitation during epidural anesthesiaA C Krismer
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck, Austria
Anesth Analg 93:734-42. 2001..We conclude that vasopressin may be a more desirable vasopressor for resuscitation during epidural block because the response to a single dose is longer lasting, and acidosis after multiple doses is less severe compared with epinephrine... 
Measurement of endogenous acetone and isoprene in exhaled breath during sleepJulian King
Breath Research Institute, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Rathausplatz 4, A 6850 Dornbirn, Austria
Physiol Meas 33:413-28. 2012..Furthermore, relative to a linear trend, baseline isoprene concentrations decreased during the transition from the NREM to the REM phase of a complete sleep cycle...- Compounds enhanced in a mass spectrometric profile of smokers' exhaled breath versus non-smokers as determined in a pilot study using PTR-MSIevgeniia Kushch
Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstraße 35, A 6020 Innsbruck, Austria Breath Research Unit of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dammstrasse 22, A 6850 Dornbirn, Austria
J Breath Res 2:026002. 2008..Validation studies in larger numbers of patients with more precise delineation of their smoking behavior and using additional analytical techniques such as GC/MS and SIFT-MS should be carried out... - Assessment of reperfusion following thrombolysis with mean fibrillation and amplitude spectrum area in patients with sustained ventricular fibrillationW Lederer
Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Anaesthesiology Research Laboratory, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstrasse 35, A 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
J Med Eng Technol 34:148-53. 2010..Improved microcirculatory reperfusion in patients with ventricular fibrillation (VF) enhances the electrical activity of the fibrillation process and increases the likelihood of successful defibrillation... - Waveform analysis of biphasic external defibrillatorsU Achleitner
Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care, University of Innsbruck, Anichstrasse 35, 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
Resuscitation 50:61-70. 2001..0 to 7.6 Omega. Defibrillator waveform tilt ranged from -13.1 to 61.4%. CONCLUSIONS: The tested defibrillators showed remarkable differences in their waveform design and their varying dependence on transthoracic impedance... - Waveforms of external defibrillators: analysis and energy contributionU Achleitner
Department of Anaesthesia and Intensive Care Medicine, Leopold Franzens University of Innsbruck, Institute for Emergency Medicine, Austria
Resuscitation 41:193-200. 1999..All but one defibrillator actually use monophasic waveforms, leaving the potential advantage of biphasic waveforms unused. Energy accuracy of defibrillators needs to be improved, and biphasic waveforms should be used more... - Ion mobility spectrometry for detection of skin volatilesVeronika Ruzsanyi
University Clinic for Anesthesia, Innsbruck Medical University, Anichstrasse 35, A 6020 Innsbruck, Austria Electronic address
J Chromatogr B Analyt Technol Biomed Life Sci 911:84-92. 2012..The technique presented here may contribute to elucidating some physiological processes occurring in the human skin... - Noninvasive detection of lung cancer by analysis of exhaled breathAmel Bajtarevic
Department of Operative Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, A 6020 Innsbruck, Austria
BMC Cancer 9:348. 2009..An early non-invasive diagnosis of lung cancer would improve prognosis and enlarge treatment options. Analysis of exhaled breath would be an ideal diagnostic method, since it is non-invasive and totally painless... - Determination of volatile organic compounds in exhaled breath of patients with lung cancer using solid phase microextraction and gas chromatography mass spectrometryMagdalena Ligor
Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
Clin Chem Lab Med 47:550-60. 2009..This might lead to a future diagnostic test for lung cancer... - Breath isoprene--aspects of normal physiology related to age, gender and cholesterol profile as determined in a proton transfer reaction mass spectrometry studyIevgeniia Kushch
Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria
Clin Chem Lab Med 46:1011-8. 2008..Our cohort consisted of 205 adult volunteers of different smoking background without health complaints. Total cholesterol in blood serum was measured in 79 of these volunteers... - Neopterin as a marker of immunostimulation: an investigation in anaesthetic workplacesG Gruber
Department of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University Hospital, Innsbruck, Austria
Anaesthesia 57:747-50. 2002..The present study is the first to investigate the influence of anaesthetic exposure on neopterin levels. No evidence of immunostimulation was found... - Removal of CPR artifacts from the ventricular fibrillation ECG by adaptive regression on lagged reference signalsKlaus Rheinberger
Research Center Process and Product Engineering, University of Applied Sciences Vorarlberg, Dornbirn 6850, Austria
IEEE Trans Biomed Eng 55:130-7. 2008..This could reduce "hands-off" analysis times which diminish the cardiac perfusion and deteriorate the chance for successful defibrillations... - Temperature-programmed gas chromatography linear retention indices of all C4-C30 monomethylalkanes on methylsilicone OV-1 stationary phase. Contribution towards a better understanding of volatile organic compounds in exhaled breathZofia Krkosová
Chemical Institute, Faculty of Natural Sciences, Comenius University, Mlynska dolina CH 2, Bratislava, Slovak Republic
J Chromatogr A 1179:59-68. 2008..Obtained regular dependences H(P)=f(C(n)) allow precise retention prediction of monomethylalkanes C(30)... - Myasthenia gravis and myasthenic syndrome: simulation of twitch strength with or without therapyVladimir Nigrovic
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical University of Ohio, 3000 Arlington Avenue, Toledo, Ohio 43614 2598, USA
Muscle Nerve 32:745-50. 2005..These results provide useful quantitative insights into the relationship between acetylcholine receptors or the stimulus-induced release of acetylcholine and muscle function in myasthenia gravis or Lambert-Eaton myasthenic syndrome... - Human exhaled air analytics: biomarkers of diseasesBogusław Buszewski
Department of Environmental Chemistry and Bioanalytics, Faculty of Chemistry, Nicolaus Copernicus University, 7 Gagarin St, 87 100 Torun, Poland
Biomed Chromatogr 21:553-66. 2007..The diagnostic potential of different disease-marking substances in human breath for a selection of diseases and the clinical applications of breath analysis are discussed... - Modeling of twitch fade based on slow interaction of nondepolarizing muscle relaxants with the presynaptic receptorsShashi B Bhatt
Department of Anesthesiology, Medical University of Ohio, Toledo, USA
J Pharmacokinet Pharmacodyn 33:461-83. 2006..Tentative estimates of this parameter are offered...