OBJECTIVES To review the spectrum and frequency of complications associated with coughing. DESIGN/METHODOLOGY Ovid MEDLINE literature review (through March 2004) for all studies published in the English language, including case series and case reports, since 1966 using the MeSH terms "cough" and "complications." RESULTS The complications of cough appear to stem from physiologic events. The ...

BACKGROUND Airway clearance may be impaired in disorders associated with abnormal cough mechanics, altered mucus rheology, altered mucociliary clearance, or structural airway defects. A variety of interventions are used to enhance airway clearance with the goal of improving lung mechanics and gas exchange, and preventing atelectasis and infection. METHOD A formal systematic review of nonpharm...

Affiliations: Drs. Gajic and Afessa are affiliated with the Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine, Mayo Clinic College of Medicine. Financial/nonfinancial disclosures: The authors have reported to the ACCP that no significant conflicts of interest exist with any companies/organizations whose products or services may be discussed in this article. Corre...

A cough that has no medical diagnosis and does not respond to treatment is sometimes labeled as psychogenic cough, habit cough, or tic cough. These disorders should be distinguished from other forms of chronic cough, but there is little consistency or evidence on how to best diagnose a chronic cough as a psychogenic, habit, or tic cough. The American College of Chest Physicians (ACCP) has updat...

Obstructive lung disease is divided mainly into asthma (reversible) and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD [nonreversible]), but in clinical practice this distinction is often difficult to make—especially in older patients. In about 20% of patients, asthma and COPD may coexist. During the 2015 ACCP (CHEST 2015) meeting in Montreal, a final session about clinical updates in Asthma and C...

The objectives of this review were to summarize and evaluate studies that measured the economic impact of clinical pharmacy services published between 2001 and 2005 (inclusive) and to provide guidance on methodologic considerations to individuals performing such research in the future. A systematic literature search using the MEDLINE and International Pharmaceutical Abstracts databases was cond...

2007;132;29S-55S Chest Anthony J. Alberg, Jean G. Ford and Jonathan M. Samet (2nd Edition) Evidence-Based Clinical Practice Guidelines : ACCP * Epidemiology of Lung Cancer http://chestjournal.chestpubs.org/content/132/3_suppl/29S.full.html services can be found online on the World Wide Web at: The online version of this article, along with updated information and ISSN:0012-3692 ) http://chestjo...

Abstract Aerosol properties are fundamentally different near clouds than away from clouds. This paper reviews the current state of knowledge aerosol in near-low-cloud environment and quantitatively compares them with aerosols far clouds, according to remote sensing observations. It interprets observations sensors using satellite, aircraft, ground-based The correlation (and anticorrelation) betw...

A ring has bounded factorizations if every cancellative nonunit a∈R can be written as a product of atoms and there is bound λ(a) on the lengths such factorizations. The factorization property one most basic finiteness properties in study non-unique Every commutative noetherian domain factorizations, but it open whether result holds noncommutative setting. We provide sufficient conditions for pr...

If every subring of an integral domain is atomic, we say that the latter hereditarily atomic. In this paper, study atomic domains. First, characterize when certain direct limits Dedekind domains are in terms overrings. Then use characterization to determine fields On other hand, investigate hereditary atomicity context rings polynomials and Laurent polynomials, characterizing whose respectively...