The patient is a 25-year-old woman transferred to Hermann Hospital 3 days after admission to an outlying facility. The patient initially woke up at 3 AM with acute onset of nausea, mild headache, hemoptysis (1⁄4/4 cup of fresh blood), and worsening shortness of breath. She then noticed weakness in the right half of her body associated with dysarthria. She had no associated chest pain or palpita...

Case report We present the case of a 62 year-old man known with rheumatoid arthritis (treated with methotrexate), mechanic mitral valve prosthesis (for mitral insufficiency secondary to infectious endocarditis), Hodgkin lymphoma in complete remission, repetitive ischemic strokes, who was admitted on 30.06.2013 to the Department of Infectious Diseases of our hospital for the appearance of a gene...

ABSTRACTBackground Bronchopneumonia is a disease that attacks the respiratory tract where inflammation occurs in lungs. which affects bronchi to alveoli of lungs, bronchopneumonia with manifestations varying from coughing, runny nose, fever, accompanied by shortness breath. So it will cause ineffective airway clearance children. One nursing actions given pediatric patients nebulizer and Ventoli...

The small-particle inhaled corticosteroid might be a new available way to treat uncontrolled asthma. To evaluate the efficacy and safety of extrafine hydrofluoroalkane-beclomethasone dipropionate (HFA-BDP) versus budesonide (BUD) in patients with asthma, a meta-analysis was performed. A systematic search was made of PubMed, EMBASE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL), Clini...

BACKGROUND Many factors contribute to the high variability of doses delivered to the lungs of patients using metered dose inhalers (MDIs). Relatively little attention has been paid to the contribution to this variability of the way in which the MDI is handled before the inhalation manoeuvre. Instruction leaflets often recommend procedures at odds with those used for in vitro testing of the devi...

BACKGROUND Gamma scintigraphy was employed to assess the deposition of aerosols emitted from a pressurised metered dose inhaler (MDI) contained in a microprocessor controlled device (SmartMist), a system which analyses an inspiratory flow profile and automatically actuates the MDI when predefined conditions of flow rate and cumulative inspired volume coincide. METHODS Micronised salbutamol pa...

To identify the most efficient device for the delivery of bronchodilator aerosol to nonventilated preterm infants with chronic lung disease, we compared the metered dose inhaler (MDI) used in conjunction with a non-valved spacer, an ultrasonic nebulizer with a small medication cup, and two jet nebulizers. The subjects were enrolled in two double-blind randomized crossover studies. In study A (n...

Intelligent on-line monitoring of ICU patients requires mechanisms to detect and interpret significant patterns in the flood of recorded data. Many monitoring methods have been proposed, ranging from simple surveillance of thresholds to complex reasoning about and forecasting of the patient ́s behaviour based on computational models of the human organism. From the many components that constitute...

INTRODUCTION Ventolin Nebules® (reference product; GlaxoSmithKline) was the first licensed nebulizer solution containing the rapid-onset, short-acting β2-agonist salbutamol. Salbutamol Steri-Neb™ (comparator; Teva Pharmaceuticals, Inc.) has the same chemical composition as the reference product. This study evaluated whether the effectiveness of the comparator is non-inferior to the reference pr...