INFLUENZAL PNEUMONIA AND BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS

Functional effects of influenzal pneumonia.

Fatal diffuse influenzal pneumonia: premortem diagnosis by lung biopsy.

the patient's syncopal attacks, but he had no further episodes after operation. Treatment of malignant cardiac mesothelioma has been unsuccessful in all but two instances. Our patient enjoyed normal activities for more than a year after operation, and Sagerman and co-workers1° have reported complete sterilization of a cardiac sarcoma by radiation therapy. One must conclude that early operation ...

Arterial blood gas analysis.

With increasing use of arterial blood gas analysis in various ward and other hospital settings to aid medical diagnosis and management, nurses who can interpret results are often able to initiate earlier interventions and understand the reasons for medical interventions. This article enables nurses to interpret such results.

Ward-based blood gas analysis.

Blood gas analysis is a time-consuming procedure, taking up to 30 minutes from obtaining a blood sample from the patient to receiving the results. The process can involve as many as three health care professionals: the doctor, nurse and a member of the pathology department. The result is that it is difficult to provide continual monitoring of blood gas levels on patients with acute respiratory ...

Influenzal Meningitis

OUR attention recently has been attracted by the occurrence in Purdvsburn Fever Hospital of several cases of mneningitis in which the causal organism was the hzinophilits influienzcw. A study of all admissions to Purdysburn Fever Hospital since its opening in November, 1906, shows that the first case (liagnosed as influenzal meningitis was adlmitted inl October, 1929. Another case followe(d in ...