airway

However, she immediately developed airway obstruction with inspiratory stridor and became cyanosed.

Despite the rich vascularity of the thyroid gland, its bleeding usually causes only discomfort and pain; it rarely leads to airway obstruction.

DISCUSSION: Congenital high airway obstruction syndrome (CHAOS) was defined by Hedrick et al in 1994 as upper airway obstruction that is diagnosed in utero by ultrasound, with concomitant findings of large echogenic lungs, flattened or inverted diaphragms, and dilated airways distal to the obstruction, and fetal ascites or hydrops.

Keywords used to search the database included hypoxia (excluding hanging, drowning, strangulation), oesophageal intubation, failed intubation and airway obstruction.

If the patient is obstructed, the FVC may be expected to be lower than the SVC, to the degree of the airway obstruction.

And, while some children with cough-variant asthma do not have wheezing obstruction, if a physician cannot demonstrate airway obstruction with abnormal spirometry testing results, or if the child does not respond to a bronchodilator, then the physician should not diagnose cough-variant asthma, she said.

The study focused on the cost of medical care given to individuals who have asthma, chronic bronchitis, chronic airway obstruction, and other major respiratory diseases, compared with costs for people who do not have serious lung problems.

Contenders looking for a challenging introduction to the emergency medicine of ambulance paramedics have to pass a test of physical skill and agility - and be able to spout facts about cardiopulmonary resuscitation and airway obstruction.

Newborn upper airway obstruction secondary to micrognathia and Pierre Robin sequence can be managed with conservative and surgical interventions.

In the emergency department the peak expiratory flow rate (PEFR) is often used to estimate the degree of airway obstruction in lieu of spirometry.

In our case the location and size of the tumour and co-existing morbid obesity and obstructive sleep apnoea posed a high risk of complete upper airway obstruction, if anaesthesia was induced and muscle relaxation administered before intubation.

Repetitive airway obstruction and oxygen desaturation have been shown to decrease the quality of self-defense mechanisms, such as cardiorespiratory arousals, sighs, and startles.

COPD is a complex group of conditions associated with progressive airway obstruction for which no disease-modifying therapy is currently known.

Contenders looking for a challenging introduction to the work performed by ambulance paramedics have to pass a test of physical strength and agility - and be able to spout facts about cardiopulmonary resuscitation and airway obstruction.