Optimal home self-management in young children with asthma includes accurate symptom identification followed by timely and appropriate treatment. The objective of this study was to evaluate a home-based asthma educational intervention targeting symptom identification for parents of children with asthma. Two hundred twenty-one children with asthma were enrolled into an ongoing home-based clinica...

OBJECTIVE To accurately measure the end-expiratory pulmonary artery wedge pressure (PAWP) with the "expiration holding" function on the ventilator and the "pulmonary artery wedge pressure review" software on the monitor. MATERIALS AND METHODS Fifty prospective measurements were made on 12 patients undergoing pulmonary artery catheter and mechanical ventilation. All measurements were divided i...

Dates sometimes undergo a yeast fermentation even though they appear to be sufficiently low in moisture and high in sugar content to inhibit the development of most spoilage organisms. In the packing of dates the procedures followed, as outlined by Sievers and Barger (1930) do not involve the use of preservatives or of sufficient heat to prevent yeast growth. In fact, yeast spoilage has been ob...

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Inspiration and active expiration are commonly viewed as antagonistic phases of a unitary oscillator that generates respiratory rhythm. This view conflicts with observations we report here in juvenile rats, where by administration of fentanyl, a selective mu-opiate agonist, and induction of lung reflexes, we separately manipulated the frequency of inspirations and expirations. Moreover, complet...