Tag: COPD
Bi-level Ventilation: Who Needs it and Who Doesn't?
Bi-level ventilation is commonly used in patients with respiratory failure in the emergency department. This is a brief review of the indications for bi-level ventilation as well as a review of the complications of this popular... read more
Extra Corporeal Carbon Dioxide Removal
In patients with chronic obstructive airway disease and hypercapneic acidosis, who are failing non-invasive ventilation, does extra corporeal carbon dioxide removal compared to non-invasive ventilation alone, reduce the... read more
Lung Microbiome: Key to Respiratory Ills?
Recently, JAMA discussed this research and its potential clinical applications with 2 experts on the front lines, Jack Gilbert, PhD, a microbial ecologist at the University of Chicago and director of its new Microbiome Center... read more
Addition of vitamin B12 to exercise training improves cycle ergometer endurance in advanced COPD patients
Vitamin B12 is essential in the homocysteine, mitochondrial, muscle and hematopoietic metabolisms, and its effects on exercise tolerance and kinetics adjustments of oxygen consumption (V'O2p) in rest-to-exercise transition... read more
Clinical review: The ABC of weaning failure
About 20% to 30% of patients are difficult to wean from invasive mechanical ventilation. The pathophysiology of difficult weaning is complex. Accordingly, determining the reason for difficult weaning and subsequently developing... read more
Management of COPD exacerbations: a European Respiratory Society/American Thoracic Society guideline
This document provides clinical recommendations for treatment of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) exacerbation. This recommendation places a high value on improving clinical outcomes and a lower value on the burden... read more
Sepsis Readmissions Compared With Other Medical Conditions
This study uses data from a US readmissions database to assess whether sepsis hospitalizations account for a higher proportion of unplanned 30-day readmissions than hospitalizations for acute myocardial infarction, heart... read more
Exacerbation of COPD: Causes, Warning Signs, and Treatment
What is a COPD exacerbation and what are the main causes? Learn about what the symptoms are and what is suggested to try to prevent COPD. Most commonly referred to as COPD, the term describes emphysema and chronic bronchitis.... read more
COPD Patients in US Often Skip Medications
People with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) often have other chronic conditions, like heart disease, and those who are poor about keeping up with treatments for these comorbidites are also less likely to adhere... read more
COPD and Life Expectancy
COPD is the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is a term for many health conditions that affect a person's lungs on a chronic basis. The condition causes... read more
Professor Wins Outstanding Investigator Award for Lung Disease Antioxidant Studies
The National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute (NHLBI) has named the recipient of its inaugural Outstanding Investigator Award: Yvonne Janssen-Heininger, PhD, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the Larner College... read more
Disease Causation Index Established By New Mathematical Model
Patients with complex diseases have a higher risk of developing another. Multi-morbidity represents a huge problem in everyday clinical practice, because it makes it more difficult to provide successful treatment. By analysing... read more
Here is Why COPD Disrupts Lung-Repair Ability
In chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the patients' lungs lose their ability to repair damage on their own. Scientists at the Helmholtz Zentrum München, partner in the German Center for Lung Research, now... read more
Combined Data Show Superiority of LAMA/LABA in COPD
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) experienced significantly fewer acute exacerbations when a long-acting muscarinic antagonist (LAMA) was added to a long-acting beta agonist (LABA) than when an inhaled... read more
COPD Awareness Month 2016: Atrial fibrillation, Crohn’s disease, chronic kidney disease, depression, and asthma
November is COPD Awareness Month, so in light of this we present our articles discussing COPD and related topics, such as atrial fibrillation, Crohn’s disease, chronic kidney disease, depression, asthma, and ulcerative... read more
Long-Term Oxygen for COPD with Moderate Desaturation
The prescription of long-term supplemental oxygen did not result in a longer time to death or first hospitalization than no long-term supplemental oxygen in patients with stable COPD.... read more
Can a CT Scan Determine Lung Age?
A recent study in the American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine sought to characterize age-related lung changes using CT.... read more
