Pneumonia is a health problem in the world with high mortality rate both developing countries and developed such as America, Canada European countries. In Indonesia, number three cause of death after cardiovascular disease tuberculosis. Low socioeconomic factors increase mortality. This infection generally spread from someone who exposed neighborhood or has direct contact infected people throug...

Wagner, Elizabeth M., and W. Michael Foster. Bronchial edema alters 99mTc-DTPA clearance from the airway surface in sheep. J Appl Physiol 91: 2567–2573, 2001.— Airway wall edema, prominent in inflammatory airways disease, may alter barrier properties at the airway airliquid interface such that normal absorption of soluble substances into the airway circulation is altered. We studied the effects...

BACKGROUND Treadmill exercise and airway clearance with the Flutter® device have previously been shown to improve mucus clearance mechanisms in people with cystic fibrosis (CF) but have not been compared. It is therefore not known if treadmill exercise is an adequate form of airway clearance that could replace established airway clearance techniques, such as the Flutter®. The aim of this study ...

The focus of this talk is on the use of airway clearance techniques to assist in the removal of secretions from the lungs with particular emphasizes on their use in the NICU and PICU setting. Until the early 1990’s the term, ‘‘Chest Physiotherapy’’ was synonymous with the terms, ‘‘airway clearance techniques, or postural drainage and percussion’’ with the latter being the traditional method of ...

Airway clearance is considered an integral component of the management of cystic fibrosis (CF).RecentCFpulmonaryguidelines made recommendations using the US Prentative Service task Force (USPSTF) grading scheme (a system which provides a mechanism toweigh the quality of evidence and the potential harms and benefits) on airway clearance. 2 These guidelines recommended thatairwayclearanceshouldbe...

abstract background: accumulation of secretions in the airways of patients with an endotracheal tube and mechanical ventilation will have serious consequences. one of the most common methods of airway clearance is endotracheal suctioning. in order to facilitate discharge of airway secretion resulting in promotion of gas exchange, chest physiotherapy techniques can be used at the time of expirat...

Objective: To determine the frequency of clinical indicators ineffective airway clearance among patients after Coronary Artery Bypass Grafting at tertiary care hospitals in Karachi, Pakistan. Study Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Dow University Hospital (DUH), Ojha Campus, and Tabba Heart Institute (THI) Karachi. Period: December 2019 to July 2020. Material & Methods: A total 113 we...

Dehydration of the apical surface of cystic fibrosis (CF) airway epithelia leads to a greatly impaired mucociliary clearance function in CF patients. In an in vitro cell model of human airway epithelia taken from CF patients and cultivated for 60 days, mucociliary clearance was zero. Tyloxapol, a synthetic surfactant, is able to restore the mucociliary clearance of the CF epithelia. The velocit...

Dehydration of the apical surface of cystic fibrosis (CF) airway epithelia leads to a greatly impaired mucociliary clearance function in CF patients. In an in vitro cell model of human airway epithelia taken from CF patients and cultivated for 60 days, mucociliary clearance was zero. Tyloxapol, a synthetic surfactant, is able to restore the mucociliary clearance of the CF epithelia. The velocit...