Academic Unit of Respiratory Medicine, St Bartholomew’s and Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London EC1A 7BE, UK Correspondence to: Professor J A Wedzicha, Academic Unit of Respiratory ...

Background: Chronic cough is a common condition which has a significant impact on quality of life. Assessment and management are hampered by the absence of well validated outcome measures. The ...

1 Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA 2 Columbia University School of Medicine, New York, New York, USA 3 University of Michigan School of Medicine, Ann Arbor, ...

Academic Department of Respiratory Medicine, St Bartholomew’s and Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, London Chest Hospital, London E2 9JX, UK Dr J A Wedzicha. BACKGROUND Although sputum ...

Introduction and objectives In patients hospitalised with an acute exacerbation of COPD (AECOPD), low body mass index (BMI) predicts in-hospital death. The Malnutrition Universal Screening Tool (MUST) ...

Severity of hypoxaemia can be assessed using the partial pressure of arterial oxygen to fraction of inspired oxygen ratio (FiO2). However, in patients breathing through non-rebreather reservoir bag ...

Background Following thoracotomy, patients frequently receive routine respiratory physiotherapy which may include incentive spirometry, a breathing technique characterised by deep breathing performed ...

State University of New York - Health Science Center at Brooklyn & Kings County Hospital Center, Brooklyn, NY 11203, USA Correspondence to: Dr L S Efferen, Department of Medicine, Long Island Jewish ...

1 Department of Emergency Medicine, University Hospital, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR, USA 2 Department of Emergency Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, and ...

Background Acute exacerbations of COPD (AECOPD) are the second most common cause of emergency hospital admission in England and are associated with an inpatient mortality rate of 4.3%. 1 The Dyspnoea, ...