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Mashup Score: 1Arterial CO2 Targets in Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation After Cardiac Arrest - 23 day(s) ago
After cardiac arrest, restoration of circulation is the first step toward survivorship. Extracorporeal CPR (ECPR), the use of veno-arterial extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (VA-ECMO) to restore circulation, is increasingly being used in refractory cardiac arrest. The Advanced Reperfusion Strategies for Patients With Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest and Refractory Ventricular Fibrillation (ARREST), Prague Out-of-Hospital, and Early Initiation of Extracorporeal Life Support in Refractory Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest (INCEPTION) randomized controlled trials compared ECPR with conventional CPR for refractory out-of-hospital cardiac arrest (OHCA).
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Mashup Score: 0Microaggressions: Small Cuts, Slow Burns - 1 month(s) ago
At the start of the COVID-19 outbreak, when I was a premedical student, I worked as a scribe in the ED. One shift, the triage nurse warned the attending physician that our next patient, despite being asymptomatic, believed he had contracted COVID while walking by a few Asian people. As the only Asian American on the team that day, I felt unintentionally singled out but nodded and remained composed. I wanted to be as invisible as possible. As I neared the patient’s room, a nurse I did not know laughed and pointed at me, exclaiming, “Oh, that Asian girl can’t go in there!” The physician gave me an understanding look as we both remained quiet and proceeded to see the patient, to complete chart documentation, and to discharge him after a negative COVID test.
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For #AANHPIMonth, we’re featuring a #CHESTHumanities piece by Tina S. Chai, BS, BA: “Microaggressions: Small Cuts, Slow Burns” The article reflects on how racial bias & #microaggressions shaped the author’s medical training during the #COVID19 pandemic. https://t.co/ldymk8J68i https://t.co/sUTkFtdQD9
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Mashup Score: 4The Emerging Role of Alarmin-Targeting Biologics in the Treatment of Patients With COPD - 2 month(s) ago
COPD is a complex, heterogeneous lung disease characterized by persistent airflow limitation secondary to airways and parenchymal abnormalities, and respiratory symptoms, including dyspnea, fatigue, chronic cough, and sputum production. Cigarette smoke exposure is a major contributor to COPD; however, inhalation of toxic particles and other environmental and host factors can contribute to its genesis. Over time, the clinical course is frequently punctuated by exacerbations that further accelerate lung function decline and increase exacerbation risk.
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Mashup Score: 2Indications for Collapse Therapy - 2 month(s) ago
There is no form of treatment for pulmonary tuberculosis in which such rapid progress has occurred in recent years as collapse therapy. While it came into general use in this country in the form of artificial pneumothorax about 1912, it was only used in the exceptional case for some years. During the writer’s experience its use has extended from a small percent of cases with ideal indications to the point where it is at least considered in every patient whose disease has passed through the early stages.
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A snapshot from April 1935: The second issue of Diseases of the Chest (now CHEST®) featured “Indications for Collapse Therapy,” urging early #thoracoplasty when #pneumothorax couldn’t be induced. A look back at 90 years of progress: https://t.co/14xpn0hIOl #CHEST90 #JournalCHEST https://t.co/j2TRN0eXBP
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Mashup Score: 6Promoting Prevention and Targeting Remission of Asthma - 3 month(s) ago
Asthma is a common, multifaceted respiratory disease with a major impact on quality of life. Despite increased insights into mechanisms underlying various asthma phenotypes and endotypes and the availability of targeted biologic treatment options, the disease remains uncontrolled in a substantial proportion of patients with risk of exacerbations, requiring systemic corticosteroids, and with progressive disease. Current international guidelines advocate for a personalized management approach to patients with uncontrolled severe asthma.
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Mashup Score: 8The Place of the Sun in Treating Tuberculosis - 4 month(s) ago
To avoid any misunderstanding we should like to state that what we have to say here regarding Heliotherapy has to do wholly with Natural and not Artificial heliotherapy and it applies only to the direct use of the sun’s rays—not their indirect or reflected use as occurs in so-called sky-shine administration or air baths.
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Looking back in the archives—In its first-ever issue in 1935, Diseases of the Chest (AKA #JournalCHEST) published an article titled 'The Place of the Sun in Treating #Tuberculosis.' https://t.co/tyvGRvEQLW Examples like this show just how far we've come in 90 years. #CHEST90 #TB https://t.co/RaJ4mCIdCA
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Mashup Score: 1Use of Intravenous Albumin - 5 month(s) ago
Currently, few evidence-based indications support the routine use of albumin in clinical practice to improve patient outcomes. These guidelines provide clinicians with actionable recommendations on the use of albumin.
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Mashup Score: 3CT Imaging Assessment of Response to Treatment in Allergic Bronchopulmonary Aspergillosis in Adults With Bronchial Asthma - 6 month(s) ago
Changes in extent and density of mucoid impaction, centrilobular micronodules, consolidation/ground-glass opacities, and thickening of the bronchial walls were found to be the most relevant CT scan parameters to assess radiologic response to treatment. A clinical, immunologic, and radiologic multidimensional approach should be adopted to assess outcomes, probably with a composite definition of response to treatment.
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Mashup Score: 6COVID-19 - 6 month(s) ago
The COVID-19 pandemic has affected clinicians in many different ways. Clinicians have their own experiences and lessons that they have learned from their work in the pandemic. This article outlines a few lessons learned from the eyes of CHEST Critical Care Editorial Board members, namely practices which will be abandoned, novel practices to be adopted moving forward, and proposed changes to the health care system in general. In an attempt to start the discussion of how health care can grow from the pandemic, the editorial board members outline their thoughts on these lessons learned.
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Mashup Score: 1CHEST - Search Results - 7 month(s) ago
Please login to view your saved searches. CHEST Vol. 134 Issue 6 p1287 – 1298 Mark W. Hull Peter Phillips Julio S.G. Montaner CHEST Vol. 135 Issue 1 p11 – 17 Krista Powell J. Lucian Davis Alison M. Morris Amy Chi Matthew R. Bensley Laurence Huang CHEST Vol. 120 Issue 2 p662 – 666 Veljko Veljkovic Radmila Metlas Djorde Jevtovic William W. Stringer Nicholas R. Murphy Kristina Crothers Madison Snidarich Jehan Z. Budak Meagan C. Brown Bryan J. Weiner and others CHEST Vol. 118 Issue 4 p1133 – 1141 Nirav J.
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Arterial CO2 Targets in Veno-Arterial Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation After Cardiac Arrest - CHEST https://t.co/DkNw4Y2wND #ECMO #CPR #cardiacarrest #HeartAttack