Pulmonology

At the annual CHEST conference in Montreal one of the sessions looked at new guidelines for treating patients with sepsis in emergency medical care.

Even doctors aren't safe from landing in their own office.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) accounts for eight million doctor visits each year in the United States alone, and a new analysis took a deeper look into adding multiple therapies to improve symptoms of the lung disease.

It's already well-known that greater activity translates to lower levels of mortality when it comes to chronic respiratory conditions. The latest data indicates that the Non-invasive Open Ventilation (NIOV) device be able to increase physical activity.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) can majorly limit physical activity and impair quality of life. A system believed to predict activity level proved to not be helpful after all.

Some patients with asthma may find aerobic exercise to be especially challenging; however, that may be the very thing that they need in order to keep their condition under control.

Initiating a sensitive conversation in the intensive care unit (ICU) can be uncomfortable, but a new analysis shows that's exactly what patients want.

"A lot of us know that, essentially, if you don't rescue the patient from falling off a cliff, there's a negative patient outcome," Nathan Boyer, CPT (P), MC, from the Brooke Army Medical Center in Texas, began a presentation at the CHEST 2015 meeting in Montréal, Canada.

If post-bronchodilator spirometry is required for the diagnosis of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), why doesn't every single primary care physician do it?

Millennials aren't the only ones using social media; professionals and the minds behind credible institutions have taken to the websites to spread their news and messages. A recent analysis that will be described at CHEST 2015 in Montréal, Canada found just how prominent Twitter discussions are at pulmonary conferences – including CHEST over the years.

Healthcare providers are supposed to be one of the top advocates for no smoking, right? Well the amount of physicians still lighting up cigarettes is prevalent.

Imagine if there was a wallet-friendly rehabilitation strategy for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) that provides the same benefits as standard care. Well, you can stop imagining and see it for yourself.

It's not unheard of for patients waiting to get lung transplants to suffer from psychiatric symptoms. In fact, it's actually common and the symptoms aren't limited to those who previously had psychiatric conditions.

Study results show asthma severity can be controlled with weight loss in obese patients.

Researchers investigating the link between chronic obstructive pulmonary disorder (COPD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) have found convincing evidence to support the co-occurrence of COPD and PTSD.

Researchers report a diagnosis of cystic fibrosis does not increase the risk of anxiety and depression.

Study results suggest that exposure to secondhand smoke either in the womb or early in childhood also leads to an increased risk of atrial fibrillation later in life.

Researchers have confirmed that bronchoscopy is a good tool for the diagnosis of bronchogenic cysts, and that therapeutic aspiration is an alternative to surgery for adults who are unfit or are reluctant to have surgery; however, transbronchial needle aspiration as a primary method of managing mediastinal bronchogenic cysts may not be the best modality for all patients.

Hospital admissions increase for children with respiratory illnesses due to particles emitted by vehicles, according to findings published in the Journal of the Air & Waste Management Association.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients could spend less time in the hospital if their doctors utilize a checklist of steps called order sets, according to a recent study.

Age and toll-like receptor 4 (TLR4) play a part in how the lungs respond to ozone, according to a recent study by Kelsa Gabehart, PhD, of the Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Health, in Denver, Colorado, and colleagues.

In ethnically diverse groups of hospital workers latent tuberculosis infection may need to be addressed. Exposure to Mycobacterium tuberculosis is higher in health care workers who were not born in the US. Reporting at ID Week 2015 in San Diego, Cal, researchers from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center said the hospital had more success with some treatment regimens for such workers than with others.

What do you do when you need to test drug therapies for Middle Eastern Respiratory Syndrome but the usual animal subjects do not get the disease? Easy, you just engineer a new kind of mouse.

There is a positive association of measures of pulmonary function with lipoprotein a [Lp(a)] in older adults who live in a community setting, according to a recent study.

Researchers have found that current smokers and those with chronic bronchitis are likely to have greater goblet cell density (GCD) than non-smokers or people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)

While chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is linked to an increased risk of death from cardiovascular disease, it is not associated with the likelihood of stroke or systemic embolism.

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is more common among poor residents of rural areas, according to findings presented at the 2015 American Thoracic Society International Conference.

A vitamin D deficiency makes chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) worse, according to Nele Heulens, of Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, and several colleagues.

Not all flu virus strains are created equal. After all, some are better equipped to transmit from host to host than others and new research has pinpointed an intricate factor that allows the virus to do so through the air.

Varenicline and bupropion may be safer for people who are quitting smoking than nicotine replacement therapy.