User talk:Thshaffer~enwiki

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Liquid ventilation
I've fixed up the references you added: please see how it was done. I disagree with you that some aspects of total liquid ventilation are easier than gas: it most definitely IS harder to oxygenate and scrub fluorocarbon than it is to simply blend ingoing oxygen, and remove CO2 by simple ventilation and exhaust to the air (whereas liquid must be recycled as in a rebreather or anesthesia circuit). However, you may be right that control of volumes is inherently easier than with a gas. Could you explain why? S B Harris 21:57, 28 January 2008 (UTC)


 * Thanks for the help with the references. Regarding TLV, for infants, we have gone back to the concept of ventilating with pre-oxygenated, warmed PFC which has plenty of oxygen(one-way system) and no carbon dioxide(Lancet, 1989). To ventilate infants, it takes less than a liter of pre-oxygenated PFC to effectively recruit alveoli and stabilize the infant's under-inflated lungs during a transient period of TLV.  After returning to gas ventilation (some would call this PLV), our PFC sensors in the expired gas line indicate the amount of PFC which is required to maintain an effective PFC volume in the lung.  In the intensive care setting, determination of effective lung volume (FRC) is one of the most difficult variables to assess, but not for PFC in the lung. Also using TLV circuits for larger patients, using microprocessor controlled ventilators, we can carefully control tidal volume and FRC during each phase of ventilation as described in the Heckman et al. article. As compared to our early ventilators, we no longer use patient weight as a measure of PFC in the lungs, we have the membrane and PFC loss technology greatly improved. There is a significant amount of technology and TLV results published (PubMed), but it is difficult to get all of this information across at once.--Thshaffer (talk) 00:15, 29 January 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm going to copy this discussion over to the liquid ventilation TALK page and continue it there. S  B Harris 02:10, 29 January 2008 (UTC)

You can leave me messages by just going to my TALK page and editing it
As I'm doing here. S B Harris 03:57, 15 January 2009 (UTC)

Not sure if everyone has heard about some of the interesting liquid PFC cases they have been done around the country. There have been several patients not progressing on ECMO in which perflubron was used as a lavage/recruitment tool to get these infants off ECMO. Most notable is the case at Seattle Children's see (http://pulse.seattlechildrens.org/lung-liquid-similar-to-one-used-in-movie-the-abyss-saves-infants-life-doctors-en courage-fda-approval-of-clinical-trials/). This infant received last rights and Drs. Kendra Smith and Craig Jackson (Neonatologist at Seattle Childrens) convinced their hospital and the FDA to try perflubron. The end result was the infant went home for Christmas and has been growing like a normal newborn. Kudos to these Doctors for not overlooking a treatment which still has promise.Thshaffer~enwiki (talk) 19:52, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

Useful citation tool
you may find this citation tool useful if you have a PMID number. it spits out a citation (to put inside the ref <> things) in cite journal format, one citation template format. -Shootbamboo (talk) 19:54, 14 February 2009 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Gentamicin levels.png
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I have responded to these queries in the Sandbox, but am not sure how to edit the actual text in the article.Thshaffer~enwiki (talk) 19:37, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

File copyright problem with File:Perflubron and gentamicin molecules.png
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I have responded to this question in the Sandbox; however, I am not sure how to address the actual text in the article. Thshaffer~enwiki (talk) 19:39, 4 May 2015 (UTC)

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