Objective:To explore the effectiveness of diaphragm exercises in mechanical ventilation patients with severe pneumonia.Methods:Convenience sampling was used to select 166 mechanical ventilation patients with severe pneumonia admitted to the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University from May 2021 to August 2023 for the study. Seventy-nine patients admitted from May 2021 to June 2022 were set up as control group and 87 patients admitted from July 2022 to August 2023 were set up as experimental group. Patients in control group received routine nursing, and experimental group carried out diaphragm exercise on the basis of control group. Post-intervention recovery, and the incidence of complications were compared between the two groups.Results:In experimental group, the patients' mechanical ventilation time was shorter than that in control group, the withdrawal success rate was higher than that in control group, and the ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and total complication incidences were lower than those in control group, and the differences were all statistically significant ( P<0.05) . Conclusions:Diaphragm exercise reduces the risk of VAP and promotes recovery in mechanical ventilation patients with severe pneumonia.

Objective:To explore the effectiveness of diaphragm exercises in mechanical ventilation patients with severe pneumonia.Methods:Convenience sampling was used to select 166 mechanical ventilation patients with severe pneumonia admitted to the First Affiliated Hospital of Zhengzhou University from May 2021 to August 2023 for the study. Seventy-nine patients admitted from May 2021 to June 2022 were set up as control group and 87 patients admitted from July 2022 to August 2023 were set up as experimental group. Patients in control group received routine nursing, and experimental group carried out diaphragm exercise on the basis of control group. Post-intervention recovery, and the incidence of complications were compared between the two groups.Results:In experimental group, the patients' mechanical ventilation time was shorter than that in control group, the withdrawal success rate was higher than that in control group, and the ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) and total complication incidences were lower than those in control group, and the differences were all statistically significant ( P<0.05) . Conclusions:Diaphragm exercise reduces the risk of VAP and promotes recovery in mechanical ventilation patients with severe pneumonia.

The nucleocapsid protein (N protein) has been found to be an antigenic protein in a number of coronaviruses. Whether the N protein in severe acute respiratory syndrome-associated coronavirus (SARS-CoV) is antigenic remains to be elucidated. Using Western blot and Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA), the recombinant N proteins and the synthesized peptides derived from the N protein were screened in sera from SARS patients. All patient sera in this study displayed strong positive immunoreactivities against the recombinant N proteins, whereas normal sera gave negative immunoresponses to these proteins, indicating that the N protein of SARS-CoV is an antigenic protein. Furthermore, the epitope sites in the N protein were determined by competition experiments, in which the recombinant proteins or the synthesized peptides competed against the SARS-CoV proteins to bind to the antibodies raised in SARS sera. One epitope site located at the C-terminus was confirmed as the most antigenic region in this protein. A detailed screening of peptide with ELISA demonstrated that the amino sequence from Codons 371 to 407 was the epitope site at the C-terminus of the N protein. Understanding of the epitope sites could be very significant for developing an effective diagnostic approach to SARS.
Blotting, Western ; Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay ; Epitopes ; chemistry ; immunology ; Humans ; Nucleocapsid Proteins ; chemistry ; immunology ; Peptide Fragments ; chemical synthesis ; Plasmids ; Recombinant Proteins ; immunology ; isolation & purification ; metabolism ; SARS Virus ; genetics ; immunology ; metabolism