Isabelle Vaugier

TL;DR: The ventilator-integrated end-tidal CO2 monitoring is as reliable as the currently used transcutaneous measurement, resulting to be a valuable proxy of the overnight PCO2 evolution.

TL;DR: The Scheirer–Ray–Hare test showed that only the type of computer access device significantly influenced TIS, and surprisingly, none of the person’s characteristics, including the level of cervical lesion, affected TIS.

TL;DR: Mouthpiece ventilation represents a valuable treatment for patients needing daytime non‐invasive ventilation but this modality is however underused, in part because of limitations in the available equipment.

TL;DR: The endotracheal respiratory flora in a population of adults suffering from neuromuscular or neurological disorders requiring a long-term tracheostomy and to identify risk factors for colonization is described and frequent resistance to Amoxicillin + Clavulanic-acid precludes the use of this antibiotic in the empiric treatment of pneumonia in this population.

TL;DR: The results indicate that both breath-stacking and VCM are useful cough-augmentation techniques, and Displaying insufflated volumes on the ventilator screen is a simple and accessible method for selecting the most efficient cough-AUgmentation technique delivered by a home ventilATOR.