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High tidal volume mechanical ventilation-induced lung injury in rats is greater after acid instillation than after sepsis-induced acute lung injury, but does not increase systemic inflammation: an experimental studyJan Willem Kuiper
From the Department of Paediatric Intensive Care, VU University Medical Centre, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
BMC Anesthesiol 11:26. 2011..abstract:..
Bench-to-bedside review: Biotrauma and modulation of the innate immune responseClaudia C dos Santos
Department of Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Crit Care 9:280-6. 2005..In this paper, we explore the pertinent evidence implicating biotrauma caused by cyclic MV and its effect on innate immune responses...
Protective ventilation of patients with acute respiratory distress syndromeClaudia C dos Santos
Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, and Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Crit Care 8:145-7. 2004..Special emphasis is placed on the theory of biotrauma, which attempts to explain how multi-organ failure may develop in patients who ultimately succumb to this syndrome...
Assisted spontaneous breathing during early acute lung injuryLukas Brander
Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of Toronto, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Crit Care 10:102. 2006..Combined with previous data demonstrating improved cardiorespiratory variables, airway pressure release ventilation with spontaneous breathing may turn out to be a less injurious ventilatory strategy...
Year in review in Critical Care, 2003 and 2004: respirology and critical careLukas Brander
Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of Toronto, St Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Crit Care 9:517-22. 2005....
Year in review 2005: Critical Care--respirology: mechanical ventilation, infection, monitoring, and educationJack J Haitsma
Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Crit Care 10:217. 2006....
Mechanical ventilation during experimental sepsis increases deposition of advanced glycation end products and myocardial inflammationMartin C J Kneyber
Department of Pediatric Intensive Care, VU University Medical Center, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Crit Care 13:R87. 2009..We hypothesized that mechanical ventilation (MV) augmented sepsis-induced myocardial CML deposition and inflammation...
Monitoring and oversight in critical care researchJames V Lavery
Centre for Global Health Research and Inner City Health Research Unit, St Michael s Hospital, Department of Public Health Sciences and Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Crit Care 8:403-5. 2004..The appropriate role of critical care researchers and research administrators is to provide leadership to move toward a greater recognition of the importance of monitoring and oversight for ethical and high quality clinical research...
Mechanical ventilation: lessons from the ARDSNet trialA S Slutsky
St Michael s Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Respir Res 1:73-7. 2000..The implications of this study with respect to clinical practice, further ARDS studies and clinical research in the critical care setting are discussed...
William John Sibbald: in memoriamArthur S Slutsky
Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, St Michael's Hospital, Ont, Toronto, Canada
Intensive Care Med 32:1945-6. 2006
Data safety and monitoring boardsArthur S Slutsky
Department of Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Canada
N Engl J Med 350:1143-7. 2004
Hot new therapy for sepsis and the acute respiratory distress syndromeArthur S Slutsky
Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Clin Invest 110:737-9. 2002
Genetics of asthma: a primerA S Slutsky
Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute at Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Canada
Can Respir J 5:4A-8A. 1998....
Effect of adrenoreceptors on endotoxin-induced cytokines and lipid peroxidation in lung explantsH Zhang
Division of Respiratory Medicine, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mount Sinai Hospital, Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canad
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 160:1703-10. 1999....
Exhaled nitric oxide and bronchial reactivity during and after inhaled beclomethasone in mild asthmaP E Silkoff
Division of Respiratory Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, The University of Toronto, Canada
J Asthma 35:473-9. 1998..3+/-46.1 at 1 week after withdrawal. ENO did not correlate with PC20 or FEV1. The changes in ENO and PC20 were inversely correlated (r2 = 0.325). ENO may be an index of airway inflammation and therapeutic response in bronchial asthma...
Pressure-time curve predicts minimally injurious ventilatory strategy in an isolated rat lung modelV M Ranieri
Division of Respiratory Medicine, Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, and Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Anesthesiology 93:1320-8. 2000..We tested the hypothesis that the pressure-time (P-t) curve during constant flow ventilation can be used to set a noninjurious ventilatory strategy...
Neutrophil defensins mediate acute inflammatory response and lung dysfunction in dose-related fashionH Zhang
Departments of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, St Michael s Hospital, Toronto M5B 1W8, Ontario M5G 2C4, Canada
Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 280:L947-54. 2001....
Changes in cross-sectional airway areas induced by methacholine, histamine, and LTC4 in asthmatic subjectsN A Molfino
Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Am Rev Respir Dis 146:577-80. 1992..05; ANOVA). These results may be explained by distinct pharmacologic properties of the agents used and may have relevance in the understanding of the pathophysiology of asthma...
Direct and indirect bacterial killing functions of neutrophil defensins in lung explantsG A Porro
Respiratory Division, Department of Anaesthesia, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto M5B 1W8, Canada
Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 281:L1240-7. 2001..We conclude that defensins exert a significant antimicrobial effect under physiological conditions and that this effect is enhanced in the presence of lung tissue by a mechanism that involves the production of reactive oxygen species...
Defining the asthma phenotype for the purpose of genetic analysisS Kesten
University of Toronto, Canada
J Asthma 34:483-91. 1997....
An evaluation of flow-volume curves as a screening test for obstructive sleep apneaI Katz
Department of Medicine, St Michael s Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Chest 98:337-40. 1990..We conclude that because of low sensitivity, flow-volume loops are not a useful screening test for the diagnosis of OSA in snoring patients...
Effects of mechanical ventilation of isolated mouse lungs on surfactant and inflammatory cytokinesR A Veldhuizen
Dept of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Eur Respir J 17:488-94. 2001..It was also concluded that in this model, the lung injury is, in part, mediated by the surfactant system and the release of inflammatory mediators...
Relative hysteresis of the airways and lung parenchyma in normal subjectsI Katz
Department of Medicine, St Michael s Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Appl Physiol 65:2390-4. 1988....
Safety and efficacy of a sustained inflation for alveolar recruitment in adults with respiratory failureS E Lapinsky
Department of Medicine, Mount Sinai Hospital, Ontario, Canada
Intensive Care Med 25:1297-301. 1999..To assess the safety and efficacy of a sustained inflation, used as a lung volume recruitment maneuver in ventilated patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure...
Ventilator-induced coagulopathy in experimental Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumoniaJ J Haitsma
Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Keenan Research Center, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael s Hospital, 30 Bond Street, Queen Wing 4 042, Toronto, ON, M5B 1W8 Canada
Eur Respir J 32:1599-606. 2008..Mechanical ventilation causing ventilator-induced lung injury increases pulmonary coagulopathy in an animal model of Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia and results in systemic coagulopathy...
Plasma-derived human antithrombin attenuates ventilator-induced coagulopathy but not inflammation in a Streptococcus pneumoniae pneumonia model in ratsH Aslami
Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Keenan Research Center, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
J Thromb Haemost 10:399-410. 2012....
Effect of mechanical ventilation on inflammatory mediators in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome: a randomized controlled trialV M Ranieri
Istituto di Anestesiologia e Rianimazione, Universita di Bari, Ospedale Policlinico, Italy
JAMA 282:54-61. 1999....
Alterations of nitric oxide synthase expression and activity during rat lung transplantationM Liu
Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratory, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto M5G 2C4, Canada
Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 278:L1071-81. 2000..We conclude that ischemic lung preservation and reperfusion result in altered NOS gene and protein expression with inhibited NOS activity, which may contribute to the injury of lung transplants...
DNA microarray analysis of gene expression in alveolar epithelial cells in response to TNFalpha, LPS, and cyclic stretchC C dos Santos
Toronto General Research Institute, University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Physiol Genomics 19:331-42. 2004..Results from this study indicate that AECs can tailor their response to different stimuli or/and combination of stimuli and subsequently play an important role in acute inflammatory responses in the lung...
The pulmonary physician in critical care * 7: ventilator induced lung injuryT Whitehead
Department of Critical Care, St Michael's Hospital, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Thorax 57:635-42. 2002
Effects of PEEP levels following repeated recruitment maneuvers on ventilator-induced lung injuryS C Ko
The Keenan Research Centre in the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute of St Michael s Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
Acta Anaesthesiol Scand 52:514-21. 2008..Different levels of positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) with and without a recruitment maneuver (RM) may have a significant impact on ventilator-induced lung injury but this issue has not been well addressed...
Agreement between alternative classifications of acute respiratory distress syndromeM O Meade
Department of Medicine, McMaster University Faculty of Health Sciences, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 163:490-3. 2001..These discordant classifications had no prognostic importance...
Lung recruitment during small tidal volume ventilation allows minimal positive end-expiratory pressure without augmenting lung injuryP C Rimensberger
Department of Critical Care, The Hospital for Sick Children, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Crit Care Med 27:1940-5. 1999....
Overview of high-frequency ventilation modes, clinical rationale, and gas transport mechanismsC C dos Santos
Department of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Respir Care Clin N Am 7:549-75. 2001..It is hoped that the results of these studies will identify the future role for HFV in the clinical setting...
Pharmacotherapy of acute respiratory distress syndromeC C dos Santos
Department of Critical Care Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Expert Opin Pharmacother 3:875-88. 2002..In addition, the pathophysiological basis for their putative modes of action, the current state of the literature and the potential for future clinical development will be discussed...
Dose-response relationship and reproducibility of the fall in exhaled nitric oxide after inhaled beclomethasone dipropionate therapy in asthma patientsP E Silkoff
Toronto Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Chest 119:1322-8. 2001..We determined the dose response and the reproducibility of the FENO fall following inhaled beclomethasone dipropionate (iBDP) therapy in nonsteroid-treated asthmatic patients...
The contribution of biophysical lung injury to the development of biotraumaClaudia C dos Santos
Department of Medicine, St Michael s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1W8, Canada
Annu Rev Physiol 68:585-618. 2006..In this review we explore the biotrauma hypothesis, the causal relationship between biophysical injury and organ failure, and its implications for the future therapy and management of critically ill patients...
Ventilation strategy using low tidal volumes, recruitment maneuvers, and high positive end-expiratory pressure for acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome: a randomized controlled trialMaureen O Meade
Department of Medicine, McMaster University, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
JAMA 299:637-45. 2008..Low-tidal-volume ventilation reduces mortality in critically ill patients with acute lung injury and acute respiratory distress syndrome. Instituting additional strategies to open collapsed lung tissue may further reduce mortality...
Development of a clinical definition for acute respiratory distress syndrome using the Delphi techniqueNiall D Ferguson
Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, University of Toronto, ON, Canada
J Crit Care 20:147-54. 2005..The objective of this study is to describe the implementation of formal consensus techniques in the development of a clinical definition for acute respiratory distress syndrome...
Angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 protects from severe acute lung failureYumiko Imai
IMBA, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna A 1030, Austria
Nature 436:112-6. 2005..Our data identify a critical function for ACE2 in acute lung injury, pointing to a possible therapy for a syndrome affecting millions of people worldwide every year...
Pulmonary coagulopathy as a new target in therapeutic studies of acute lung injury or pneumonia--a reviewMarcus J Schultz
Department of Intensive Care Medicine, University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, Canada
Crit Care Med 34:871-7. 2006....
Identification of oxidative stress and Toll-like receptor 4 signaling as a key pathway of acute lung injuryYumiko Imai
IMBA, Institute of Molecular Biotechnology of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, Dr Bohrgasse 3, A 1030 Vienna, Austria
Cell 133:235-49. 2008..Moreover, deletion of ncf1, which controls ROS production, improves the severity of H5N1-mediated ALI. Our data identify oxidative stress and innate immunity as key lung injury pathways that control the severity of ALI...
Ischemia and reperfusion increases susceptibility to ventilator-induced lung injury in ratsEttore Crimi
Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 174:178-86. 2006..CONCLUSIONS: HSR priming renders the lung and kidney more susceptible to mechanical ventilation-induced organ injury...
Inhibition of poly(adenosine diphosphate-ribose) polymerase attenuates ventilator-induced lung injuryRosanna Vaschetto
The Keenan Research Centre, Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, St Michael s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Anesthesiology 108:261-8. 2008..Therefore, the authors hypothesized that the pharmacologic inhibition of poly(adenosine diphosphate-ribose) polymerase by PJ-34 would attenuate ventilator-induced lung injury...
Angiotensin-converting enzyme insertion/deletion polymorphism is not associated with susceptibility and outcome in sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndromeJesus Villar
Multidisciplinary Organ Dysfunction Evaluation Research Network MODERN, Research Unit, Hospital Universitario Dr Negrin, Barranco de la Ballena, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, Spain
Intensive Care Med 34:488-95. 2008..We hypothesized that the I/D polymorphism also confers susceptibility to sepsis and is a predisposing factor for morbidity and mortality of patients with severe sepsis...
Non-invasive neurally adjusted ventilatory assist in rabbits with acute lung injuryJennifer Beck
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Department of Newborn and Developmental Paediatrics, 76 Grenville, 4th floor Paediatrics, M5S 1B6, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Intensive Care Med 34:316-23. 2008..The aim of this study was to evaluate whether NAVA can deliver assist in synchrony and proportionally to EAdi after extubation, with a leaky non-invasive interface...
A primer on data safety monitoring boards: mission, methods, and controversiesLisa K Hicks
Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology/Hematology, Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Intensive Care Med 33:1815-8. 2007
Understanding high-frequency oscillation: lessons from the animal kingdomNiall D Ferguson
Intensive Care Med 33:1316-8. 2007
What tidal volumes should be used in patients without acute lung injury?Marcus J Schultz
Department of Intensive Care Medicine and Laboratory of Experimental Intensive Care and Anesthesiology, University of Amsterdam, and Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, St Michael s Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Anesthesiology 106:1226-31. 2007..Prospective studies should be performed to evaluate optimal ventilator management strategies for patients without ALI...
Improved synchrony and respiratory unloading by neurally adjusted ventilatory assist (NAVA) in lung-injured rabbitsJennifer Beck
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre, Department of Pediatrics, University of Toronto, Women s College Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5S 1B6
Pediatr Res 61:289-94. 2007..05) due to the increased wasted efforts. We conclude that synchrony with the ventilator is an important determinant for diaphragm unloading...
Tidal hyperinflation during low tidal volume ventilation in acute respiratory distress syndromePier Paolo Terragni
Universita di Torino, Dipartimento di Anestesiologia e Rianimazione, Ospedale S Giovanni Battista Molinette, Corso Dogliotti 14, 10126 Turin, Italy
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 175:160-6. 2007..Computed tomography demonstrated a small, normally aerated compartment on the top of poorly aerated and nonaerated compartments that may be hyperinflated by tidal inflation...
Role of oxidative stress in experimental sepsis and multisystem organ dysfunctionEttore Crimi
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University of Eastern Piedmont, Novara, Italy
Free Radic Res 40:665-72. 2006..Based on this experimental evidence, we could improve the rationale of supplementation of antioxidants alone or in combination with standard therapies aimed to reduce oxidative stress as novel adjunct treatment in critical care...
Influence of neurally adjusted ventilatory assist and positive end-expiratory pressure on breathing pattern in rabbits with acute lung injuryJean-Christophe Allo
Service d'Acceuil et de Traitement des Urgences, , Paris, France
Crit Care Med 34:2997-3004. 2006....
Ventilator-induced lung injury: from barotrauma to biotraumaArthur S Slutsky
Interdepartmental Division of Critcal Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Respir Care 50:646-59. 2005
Pathogenesis of ventilator-induced lung injury: trials and tribulationsLorraine N Tremblay
Am J Physiol Lung Cell Mol Physiol 288:L596-8. 2005
High-frequency oscillatory ventilation and ventilator-induced lung injuryYumiko Imai
Institute of Molecular Biotechnology, Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna, Austria
Crit Care Med 33:S129-34. 2005....
Critically ill patients with severe acute respiratory syndromeRobert A Fowler
Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario
JAMA 290:367-73. 2003..Affected patients had primarily single-organ respiratory failure, and half of mechanically ventilated patients died. The SARS outbreak greatly strained regional critical care resources...
The ICU outreach teamDamon C Scales
Adult Critical Care Program, and the Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Crit Care 18:95-106. 2003
Effects of albumin and Ringer's lactate on production of lung cytokines and hydrogen peroxide after resuscitated hemorrhage and endotoxemia in ratsHaibo Zhang
Department of Anaesthesia, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, St Michael s Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada
Crit Care Med 31:1515-22. 2003..We tested the hypothesis that the types of fluids used during early resuscitation have an important effect on the evolution of lung injury...
Mechanical ventilation may increase susceptibility to the development of bacteremiaChang-Yi Lin
Department of Medicine, Mackay Memorial Hospital, Taiwan
Crit Care Med 31:1429-34. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: An injurious ventilatory strategy predisposes animals to subsequent bacteremia associated with an impaired host defense reflected by cytokine response...
Injurious mechanical ventilation and end-organ epithelial cell apoptosis and organ dysfunction in an experimental model of acute respiratory distress syndromeYumiko Imai
Department of Critical Care, St Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario
JAMA 289:2104-12. 2003..This may partially explain the high rate of MODS observed in patients with ARDS and the decrease in morbidity and mortality in patients treated with a lung protective strategy...
Conventional mechanical ventilation is associated with bronchoalveolar lavage-induced activation of polymorphonuclear leukocytes: a possible mechanism to explain the systemic consequences of ventilator-induced lung injury in patients with ARDSHaibo Zhang
Department of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Program, Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, 30 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1W8, Canada
Anesthesiology 97:1426-33. 2002..This result may possibly explain the decreased mortality in acute respiratory distress syndrome patients treated with a lung-protective strategy...
Genetics of critical illness: methodological issuesArthur S Slutsky
Crit Care Med 30:2382-3. 2002
Injurious ventilation induces widespread pulmonary epithelial expression of tumor necrosis factor-alpha and interleukin-6 messenger RNALorraine N Tremblay
Department of Critical Care, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Crit Care Med 30:1693-700. 2002..CONCLUSIONS: The vast pulmonary epithelium is a major contributor to ventilation-induced changes in cytokine production and may play an important role in the pathogenesis of lung injury and systemic sequelae in ventilated subjects...
Ventilation with negative airway pressure induces a cytokine response in isolated mouse lungKuo-Chen Cheng
Departments of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, 30 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario M5B 1W8, Canada
Anesth Analg 94:1577-82, table of contents. 2002..This finding may have clinical relevance in certain patients who are prone to atelectasis during mechanical ventilation...
From bench to bedside: bacterial growth and cytokinesClaudia C dos Santos
University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Crit Care 6:4-6. 2002
Ventilator-induced lung injury, cytokines, PEEP, and mortality: implications for practice and for clinical trialsArthur S Slutsky
Intensive Care Med 29:1218-21. 2003
Weapons of mass salvation: Canada's role in improving the health of the global poorPrabhat Jha
Department of Public Health Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont
CMAJ 170:66-7. 2004
Effect of mechanical ventilation on cytokine response to intratracheal lipopolysaccharideThomas C Whitehead
Departments of Anesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, St Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Canada
Anesthesiology 101:52-8. 2004..CONCLUSION: Ventilation strategy can modify lung cytokine responses to lipopolysaccharide, likely through an effect on the alveolar macrophage population...
Ventilator-induced lung injury and multiple system organ failure: a critical review of facts and hypothesesFrans B Plötz
Department of Pediatric Intensive Care, VU Medical Center, P O Box 7057, 1007 MB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Intensive Care Med 30:1865-72. 2004..To review how biotrauma leads to the development of multiple system organ failure (MSOF)...
Clinical issues and research in respiratory failure from severe acute respiratory syndromeMitchell M Levy
Department of Medicine, Brown University/Rhode Island Hospital, Providence, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 171:518-26. 2005..The group recommended preparation for studies, including protocols, ethical considerations, Web-based registries, and data entry systems...
Mechanical ventilation and acute renal failureJan Willem Kuiper
Department of Pediatric Intensive Care, VU Medical Center, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Crit Care Med 33:1408-15. 2005..Development of optimal interventional strategies requires an understanding of physiologic principles and greater insight into the precise molecular and cellular mechanisms that may also play a role...
Biotrauma hypothesis of ventilator-induced lung injuryStefan Uhlig
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 169:314-5; author reply 315. 2004
Effects of cyclic opening and closing at low- and high-volume ventilation on bronchoalveolar lavage cytokinesEric K Chu
Department of Medicine and Critical Care Medicine, St. Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Crit Care Med 32:168-74. 2004..With high-volume ventilation, over time, the degree of overdistension is more associated with increases in bronchoalveolar lavage cytokines than cyclic opening and closing alone...
Mechanical ventilation alters the immune response in children without lung pathologyFrans B Plötz
Pediatric Intensive Care Unit, University Medical Center Utrecht, The Netherlands
Intensive Care Med 28:486-92. 2002..This study was undertaken to examine the hypothesis that mechanical ventilation in association with anesthesia would alter the cytokine profile in infants without preexisting lung pathology...
Effects of recruiting maneuvers in patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome ventilated with protective ventilatory strategySalvatore Grasso
Servizio di Anestesiologia e Rianimazione, Ospedale Di Venere, Bari, Italy
Anesthesiology 96:795-802. 2002..01). CONCLUSIONS: Application of recruiting maneuvers improves oxygenation only in patients with early ARDS who do not have impairment of chest wall mechanics and with a large potential for recruitment, as indicated by low values of EstL...
Lung stress and strain in acute respiratory distress syndrome: good ideas for clinical management?Roy G Brower
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 178:323-4. 2008
Airway pressure-time curve profile (stress index) detects tidal recruitment/hyperinflation in experimental acute lung injurySalvatore Grasso
Servizio di Anestesia e Rianimazione, Ospedale Di Venere, Bari, Italy
Crit Care Med 32:1018-27. 2004..917 and R =.911, p <.0001, respectively). CONCLUSIONS: Shape of the Paw-t curve detects tidal recruitment and tidal hyperinflation...
What lessons can we learn from NOS knockout mice in acute pulmonary disease?Jeremy A Scott
Crit Care Med 30:2143-5. 2002
Intercellular adhesion molecule-1 mediates cellular cross-talk between parenchymal and immune cells after lipopolysaccharide neutralizationJin-Hwa Lee
Departments of Anaesthesia and Critical Care Medicine, Division of Respiratory Medicine, University of Toronto, St. Michael's Hospital, 30 Bond Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada M5B 1W8
J Immunol 172:608-16. 2004..This may provide an explanation for the failure of anti-LPS therapies in sepsis trials...
Effect of ventilator-induced lung injury on the development of reperfusion injury in a rat lung transplant modelMarc de Perrot
Thoracic Surgery Research Laboratory, Toronto General Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
J Thorac Cardiovasc Surg 124:1137-44. 2002....
Ventilator-induced lung injury: from the bench to the bedsideLorraine N Tremblay
Department of Surgery, Sunnybrook and Women's Health Sciences Center, Toronto, Ont, Canada
Intensive Care Med 32:24-33. 2006
Future research directions in acute lung injury: summary of a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute working groupMichael A Matthay
Division of Lung Diseases, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute/NIH, Bethesda, MD, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 167:1027-35. 2003..Cellular and molecular methods combined with animal and clinical studies should lead to further progress in the detection and treatment of this complex disease...
Identification of severe acute respiratory syndrome in CanadaSusan M Poutanen
Toronto Medical Laboratories and Mount Sinai Hospital Department of Microbiology, Toronto, Canada
N Engl J Med 348:1995-2005. 2003..It appears to be of viral origin, with patterns suggesting droplet or contact transmission. The role of human metapneumovirus, a novel coronavirus, or both requires further investigation...
Inflammation and the acute respiratory distress syndromeEttore Crimi
Division of Respiratory Medicine, Department of Critical Care Medicine, St Michael's Hospital, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont, Canada
Best Pract Res Clin Anaesthesiol 18:477-92. 2004..This chapter will review the current state of the literature on the pathogenesis of ARDS and ventilatory and pharmacotherapy approaches to its management...
Five percent albumin for adult burn shock resuscitation: lack of effect on daily multiple organ dysfunction scoreAndrew B Cooper
Department of Critical Care Medicine, Sunnybrook and Women s College Health Science Center, North York, Ontario, Canada
Transfusion 46:80-9. 2006..The effect of 5 percent human albumin on multiple organ dysfunction was investigated during the first 14 days of treatment to determine whether albumin resuscitation might benefit adult burn patients...
The role of oxidative stress in adult critical careEttore Crimi
Department of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine, University of Eastern Piedmont, 28100 Novara, Italy
Free Radic Biol Med 40:398-406. 2006..Newer large multicenter trials with antioxidant supplementation should be performed, considering administration at an early stage of illness and a wider population of critically ill patients...
Modulation of bacterial growth by tumor necrosis factor-alpha in vitro and in vivoJin-Hwa Lee
Department of Anaesthesia, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, ON, M5B 1W8 Canada
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 168:1462-70. 2003..coli growth in vitro and in vivo. However, in vivo, this effect becomes only apparent in neutropenic animals. The relevance of these findings for immune compromised patients remains to be investigated...
Two-year outcomes, health care use, and costs of survivors of acute respiratory distress syndromeAngela M Cheung
Department of Medicine, University Health Network, Toronto, ON, Canada
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 174:538-44. 2006..Little is known about the long-term outcomes and costs of survivors of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)...
PEEP or no PEEP--lung recruitment may be the solutionArthur S Slutsky
N Engl J Med 354:1839-41. 2006
Research Grants
- From Bench to Bedside to CurbsideArthur Slutsky; Fiscal Year: 2007..4) To develop a program, which will train the next generation of investigators in research skills related to resuscitation medicine. ..
