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Medical management of COPD includes short and long-acting bronchodilators, inhaled corticosteroids, oxygen supplementation, pulmonary rehabilitation, and smoking cessation therapy. In advanced emphysema with significant hyperinflation, patients continue to experience dyspnea and exacerbations where pharmacological in...
Ninaneet al.tested IBV valves in a sham procedure controlled study (n=73) (27). Upper lobes were targeted although the study design was such that complete lobar occlusion was deliberately avoided to prevent lobar atelectasis which the study author hypothesised may cause adverse events. The primary...
Does crackling in the lungs mean pneumonia? Crackles can be heard in patients withpneumonia, atelectasis, pulmonary fibrosis, acute bronchitis, bronchiectasis, acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), interstitial lung disease or post thoracotomy or metastasis ablation. Pulmonary edema secondary to left...
Intubation does not invariably lead to grooving [16, 17]. The incidence of palatal grooving in PT infants is quoted at 7 – 90% [6, 14, 16–18] (n. b. 'grooving' may also be a matter of thickened palatine ridges). Only a few cases of alveolar grooving have been reported [4, 19...
I understand the need for test results, analysis, etc. In simplest terms - If my cpap is pumping 20 liters of air (No problems sleeping, once I'm asleep) and a bipap is pumping air at 20 liters (drying out my mouth due to air pushing through it), is there any value in switching...
I understand the need for test results, analysis, etc. In simplest terms - If my cpap is pumping 20 liters of air (No problems sleeping, once I'm asleep) and a bipap is pumping air at 20 liters (drying out my mouth due to air pushing through it), is there any value in switching...
About 1% of women who deliver vaginally develop postpartum fever, though this figure is somewhat questionable, especially in relationship to development of mastitis. There does seem to be a much higher rate of complications after birth with cesarean or c-section. Up to 30% of women may develop...
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