Background: Respiratory Tract Infection (RTI) is a very common disease in our country. Bacterial infections the respiratory tract causing significant morbidity andmortality hospitalized patients. Information on prevalence of bacterial infection RTI health care settings lacking. Moreover, injudicious use antibiotics often leads to antibiotic resistance which an emerging problem. The objective th...

acute respiratory distress syndrome (ards) is a complex disorder of heterogeneous etiologies characterized by a consistent, recognizable pattern of lung injury and a potentially devastating form of acute inflammatory lung injury with a high short-term mortality rate and significant long-term consequences among survivors. recently, the new definition of ards has been published, and this definiti...

Respiratory tract infections (RTI) are one of the major causes of morbidity and mortality, in Nepal, because of the climate, living conditions and economic status of the people. This study was done to find out the pattern of respiratory tract infections in adults and pattern of antibiotics (AB) prescribed in them and to explore the most economical treatment of patients without compromising the ...

[Purpose] Fragmentary studies on characteristics of respiratory muscles are being done to increase respiratory capacity by classifying exercises into voluntary respiratory exercise which relieves symptoms and prevents COPD and exercise using breathing exercise equipment. But this study found changes on respiratory pattern through changes on the activity pattern of agonist and synergist respirat...

We investigated the utility of a noninvasive respiratory inductive plethysmograph (RIP) to continuously monitor and record the breathing pattern of 44 patients who had been mechanically ventilated. Seven patients deteriorated on intermittent mandatory ventilatory rate of zero; seven deteriorated within 48 h following extubation; 30 were successfully extubated. Respiratory alternans was document...

OBJECTIVE To identify parameters that indicate retained secretions and the need for tracheal suctioning (TS) in patients receiving mechanical ventilation (MV). DESIGN Prospective observational study. SETTING A 14-bed medical ICU in a 946-bed university hospital. PATIENTS Sixty-six consecutive patients receiving MV. INTERVENTIONS Two successive tracheal suctions, TS1 and TS2, performed a...