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- Title
Respiratory Care Year in Review 2010: Part 1. Asthma, COPD, Pulmonary Function Testing, Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia.
- Authors
Rubin, Bruce K.; Dhand, Rajiv; Ruppel, Gregg L.; Branson, Richard D.; Hess, Dean R.
- Abstract
The purpose of this paper is to review the recent literature related to asthma, COPD, pulmonary function testing, and ventilator-associated pneumonia. Topics covered related to asthma include genetics and epigenetics; exposures; viruses; diet, obesity and exercise; exhaled nitric oxide; and drug therapy ( agonists, macrolides, tiotropium and monteleukast). Topics covered related to COPDinclude childhood disadvantage factors and COPD; vitaminDdeficiency and COPD;-blockers and COPD; corticosteroid therapy during COPD exacerbations; oxygen administration during pre-hospital transport of patients with COPD exacerbation; and prognosis of patients admitted to the hospital for COPD exacerbation. Topics related to pulmonary function testing include methods and techniques; predicted values; natural history, pulmonary function in health and disease; and the COPD controversy. Finally, the paper includes the following topics related to ventilator-associated pneumonia: the tube, the intubation route, and the cuff; mechanical ventilation; the bundle; and cost. These topics were chosen and reviewed in a manner that is most likely to have interest to the readers of RESPIRATORY CARE
- Subjects
ASTHMA risk factors; PNEUMONIA prevention; RISK factors of pneumonia; AGE distribution; ASTHMA; BRONCHODILATOR agents; OBSTRUCTIVE lung diseases; OXYGEN therapy; PATIENT-controlled analgesia; PULMONARY function tests; SPIROMETRY; MECHANICAL ventilators; DISEASE exacerbation; DISEASE risk factors
- Publication
Respiratory Care, 2011, Vol 56, Issue 4, p488
- ISSN
0020-1324
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4187/respcare.01286