King Faisal University

The aim of this study is investigated the effect of high fat Ketogenic Diet (HFKD) in weight reduction compared to the low-fat diet (LFD) among Saudi overweight and obese women. A randomized acute controlled trial of twenty-eight healthy overweight or obese women in Saudi Arabia, aged between 18 and 40 with a body mass index between 25 and 34.5 kg m2 and fat parentage above 30% . The participants have followed ether HFKD or LFD for 12 weeks.

Compared with the information available in sepsis and trauma-associated ARDS, less is known about the cause and pattern of lung injury after thoracic surgery. Definition of lung injury in this context is difficult. Most now use the joint North American-European consensus conference definitions, but these are based only on gas exchange and radiology criteria. While gas exchange measures are reliable, thoracotomy inevitably causes radiological change and the interpretation of plain chest films becomes subjective. Definitions based on permeability and inflammatory changes would improve diagnosis, but are not routinely available in most units.
Pressure-controlled volume (PCV) may be useful to improve gas exchange and alveolar recruitment with associated lower airway pressures and shunt fraction during one-lung ventilation (OLV).
However, a recent prospective randomized study of the effects of PCV during OLV did not lead to improved oxygenation during OLV compared with VCV, but PCV did lead to lower peak airway pressures. To date, there are no reports of the effects of PCV versus VCV during OLV on the acute lung injury (ALI) after thoracotomy.

Video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery (VATS) is usually performed using well-collapsed lung is essential for optimum surgical visualization and resection. However, one lung ventilation (OLV) is associated with deleterious impaired oxygenation secondary to the increases in shunt fraction.1 There are different approaches for the recruitment of the non-dependent lung (NL) during OLV such as the selective application of continuous positive pressure ventilation (CPAP) or high frequency positive pressure ventilation (HFPPV) to the non-dependent lung.2-4 These strategies may improve arterial oxygenation and reduce shunt fraction,2-4 However, the use of high CPAP levels impaired the surgical conditions during thoracotomy.2-3 On contrary, the application of HFPPV either to both lungs5or to the non-dependent lung permits adequate surgical conditions during thoracotomy.4 The investigators hypothesize that the application of volume-controlled HFPPV to the non-dependent lung during OLV for video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery may provide better surgical field and adequate oxygenation than the use of CPAP 2 cm H2O.
The investigators will evaluate the effects of the selective application of conventional one lung ventilation, HFPPV, or CPAP 2 cm H2O to the non-dependent lung on surgical field conditions, and arterial oxygen and carbon dioxide tensions (PaO2 and PaCO2, respectively) during OLV in the patients scheduled for video-assisted thoracoscopic surgery.