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Publikováno v:
The Journal of Laryngology & Otology. 126:441-444
Background and methods:Chronic cough is defined as a cough persisting for more than eight weeks. This condition generates significant healthcare and economic costs. It is associated with a spectrum of disorders across multiple medical specialties and
Publikováno v:
QJM. 92:395-400
Although recent guidelines for managing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) recommend a trial of oral corticosteroids in the initial assessment, its prognostic value remains unclear. We prospectively studied 127 adults (64% men) with stable
Publikováno v:
American Review of Respiratory Disease. 146:555-559
Short-term trials of bronchodilator drugs are widely used to assess patients with stable chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but there is an uncertainty about the equivalence of the FEV1 response to beta-agonists and anticholinergic drugs,
Autor:
P D Welsby, J E Earis
Publikováno v:
Postgraduate medical journal. 77(912)
Observation reveals that about half of chest physicians use the stethoscope bell when auscultating the lungs and the other half use the diaphragm. None directly apply their ears. Despite extensive reading we have not encountered an evidence based ans
Publikováno v:
Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine. 6(4)
This paper is concerned with devising a standard procedure for determining the gain and phase responses of the analogue filters used to pre-process pulmonary signals prior to their digitisation. The customary high-pass filtering, in particular, will
Publikováno v:
Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine. 6(1)
This paper describes a real time system for the analysis of pulmonary sounds. The system performs various types of time-domain and spectrographic analysis. It is able to display time-domain waveforms obtained from microphones detecting lung sounds, t
Publikováno v:
Technology and health care : official journal of the European Society for Engineering and Medicine. 6(1)
Inverse filtering is a digital signal processing technique which may be applied to speech-like sounds to remove resonances introduced by upper airway cavities to leave a residual signal which is, in principle, spectrally flat and strongly related to
Publikováno v:
American journal of respiratory and critical care medicine. 152(3)
Patients with obstructive sleep apnea (OSA) experience severe sleep disruption and consequent daytime sleepiness. Current arousal scoring criteria show that some obstructive apneic events do not end in a recognizable cortical electroencephalographic
Publikováno v:
Journal of Bronchology. 4:266-267
Fibreoptic bronchoscopy (FOB) is now commonly performed, and the number of elderly patients undergoing the procedure is increasing. Problems with oxygenation during FOB are well-recognised, but there are few data about its cardiovascular effects. For
Publikováno v:
British medical journal (Clinical research ed.). 291(6511)