In this article, a GUI system is proposed to support clinical cardiology examinations. The estimates “pulmonary artery wedge pressure” based on patients' chest radiographs using an explainable regression-based convolutional neural network. was validated by performing effectiveness survey with 23 physicians medical licenses. results indicated that many considered the be effective.

STUDY OBJECTIVE Ready availability of computed tomography (CT) angiography for evaluation of pulmonary embolism in emergency departments (EDs) is associated with a dramatic increase in the number of CT angiography tests. The aims of this study are to determine whether a validated prediction algorithm embedded in a computerized decision support system improves the positive yield rate of CT angio...

There has been growing concern within the European Respiratory Society (ERS) that pulmonary physicians are becoming less involved in the practise of intensive care medicine (ICM). A Working Party (WP) was therefore established to identify issues that might explain this trend. No precise terms of reference were issued to guide this exercise. The WP ensured that its report focussed on improving p...

There have been recent recommendations to include objective measurements of airway obstruction in the treatment of patients with acute asthma. These recommendations are based in part on the inaccuracy of physicians in estimating airways obstruction in asthmatic patients. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the ability of physicians to estimate the degree of airways obstruction in patients...

Since patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) infrequently discuss treatment preferences about end-of-life care with physicians, the goal of the present study was to identify which specific areas of communication about end-of-life care occur between patients with severe COPD and their physicians, and how patients rate the quality of this communication. A total of 115 patients...

1 Pulmonary Circulation Pulmonary Circulation: A new venue for communicating your fi ndings, ideas and perspectives Welcome Pulmonary circulation is the flow of blood from the right ventricle through the pulmonary artery to the lungs, where carbon dioxide (CO 2) is exchanged for oxygen (O 2), and back through the pulmonary vein to the left atrium. The pulmonary vasculature includes the arteries...