An Ounce of Prevention May Prevent Hospitalization

An ounce of prevention: Noninvasive ventilation to prevent postextubation respiratory failure

Patients: Ninety-seven consecutive patients with similar baseline characteristics requiring >48 hours of mechanical ventilation and considered at risk of developing postextubation respiratory failure (i.e., patients who had hypercapnia, congestive heart failure, ineffective cough and excessive tracheobronchial secretions, more than one failure of a weaning trial, more than one comorbid conditio...

Hypothesis: in COPD, a pound of cure may be better than an ounce of prevention.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is currently the fourth leading cause of death in the USA. Its defining feature is limitation of expiratory airflow, which is usually relentlessly progressive. Current therapies have meaningful, but limited benefits. For those who have resting hypoxaemia, supplemental oxygen improves survival. Rehabilitation can improve health status and exercise per...

An ounce of prevention, a pound of cure.

An ounce of prevention: "COPEing with Toddler Behaviour".

“An Ounce of Prevention Is Worth a Pound of Cure”

767 J Clin Psychiatry 68:5, May 2007 he future of child and adolescent psychiatry lies in the identification of prodromal presentations and risk factors associated with the onset and progression of psychopathology. Only once we begin to understand the early clinical manifestations of psychiatric disorders and the risk factors, genetic and environmental, associated with illness onset and outcome...