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The New England Journal of Medicine: Search Results in Pulmonary\Critical Care The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM) RSS feed -- Search Results in Pulmonary\Critical Care. NEJM (http://www.nejm.org) is a weekly general medical journal that publishes new medical research findings, review articles, and editorial opinion on a wide variety of topics of importance to biomedical science and clinical practice. Case 6-2015: A 16-Year-Old Boy with Coughing Spells 01/01/70 - Presentation of Case. Dr. Mark A. Goldstein (Pediatrics): A 16-year-old boy was seen in the adolescent medicine outpatient clinic of this hospital in late spring because of coughing spells. The patient had been well until approximately 3 weeks before the current presentation, when cough and nasal… Driving Pressure and Survival in the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome 01/01/70 - Mechanical-ventilation strategies that use lower end-inspiratory (plateau) airway pressures, lower tidal volumes (VT), and higher positive end-expiratory pressures (PEEPs) ? collectively termed lung-protective strategies ? have been associated with survival benefits in randomized clinical… Electrocardiographic Monitoring in Adults 01/01/70 - Driving Pressure and Respiratory Mechanics in ARDS 01/01/70 - In this issue of the Journal, Amato et al. use data from previously published trials to determine whether it is possible to predict outcomes in patients with the acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) on the basis of the settings of their mechanical ventilators or parameters derived from… Smoking and Mortality ? Beyond Established Causes 01/01/70 - The 2014 Surgeon General?s report estimates that cigarette smoking causes more than 480,000 deaths each year in the United States. This widely cited estimate of the mortality burden of smoking may be an underestimate, because it considers deaths only from the 21 diseases that have been formally… Asthma and Exercise-Induced Bronchoconstriction in Athletes 01/01/70 - Regular exercise is one of the most effective means to maintain good health. A substantial proportion of the general population engages in competitive sports, including many people with asthma; when controlled, asthma does not restrict exercise performance. Indeed, exercise training can improve… Itching for a Diagnosis 01/01/70 - A 58-year-old black woman presented to an urgent care clinic with pruritus, which had developed in the preceding 2 weeks along with fatigue, dizziness, and decreased appetitite. There was no visible rash. The diffuse body itch had progressively worsened during this period, particularly at night,… Smoke Alarm ? Tobacco Control Remains Paramount 01/01/70 - Behavioral patterns have been identified as the leading determinant of preventable death ? with smoking the dominant behavioral cause of premature death. Smokers die, on average, more than a decade before nonsmokers. Years of healthy life are lost because smoking also decreases quality of life,… Acid?Base Problems in Diabetic Ketoacidosis 01/01/70 - This review focuses on three issues facing clinicians who care for patients with diabetic ketoacidosis; all of the issues are related to acid?base disorders. The first issue is the use of the plasma anion gap and the calculation of the ratio of the change in this gap to the change in the… Elevated Sweat Chloride Levels Due to Arsenic Toxicity 01/01/70 - To the Editor: Arsenic toxicity is associated with gram-negative bacterial lung infections, bronchiectasis, and diabetes mellitus. The symptoms of arsenic toxicity overlap with those of cystic fibrosis, an autosomal recessive disease that is most common in people of Northern European ancestry.… |
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