In medicine, hypoxia is a condition in which the human body tissues are not oxygenated sufficiently to maintain adequate homeostasis, resulting from inadequate oxygen delivery to the tissues due to ...

Background Some patients with COPD who use home non-invasive ventilation (hNIV) experience acute breathlessness after termination of NIV. This has been described as de-ventilation dyspnoea (DvD).

A case of severe asthma in pregnancy necessitating extracorporeal membrane oxygenation and early delivery due to severe intrauterine growth restriction. This case documents the development, management ...

For patients struggling to breathe because of acute respiratory failure, clearing mucus from the airways is a routine part of ...

Asthma is the most common chronic airway disease worldwide, imposing substantial clinical, societal, and economic burden.

In patients with acute respiratory failure, carbocisteine and hypertonic saline — commonly used mucoactive agents in ICUs — do not shorten the duration of mechanical ventilation and are tied to harm.

This review focuses on the effects of altitude exposure from 1 to several days or weeks as occurs in tourists, trekkers, and mountaineers who visit high altitude and normally reside near sea level. We ...

The boron isotope pH proxy in sediment-core planktic foraminifera is used as a tracer of oceanic CO2 outgassing to show that surface waters which derive partly from deep water upwelled in the Southern ...

2 Groningen Research Institute for Asthma and COPD (GRIAC), University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen (UMCG), Groningen, The Netherlands Correspondence to F M Struik, Department of ...

MAX(CASE WHEN norepi.stay_id IS NOT NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS norepinephrine_24h, MAX(CASE WHEN epi.stay_id IS NOT NULL THEN 1 ELSE 0 END) AS epinephrine_24h, MAX(CASE WHEN dopa.stay_id IS NOT NULL ...

Correspondence to: Dr Resch Division of Neonatology, Department of Paediatrics, University Hospital Graz, Auenbruggerplatz 30, 8036 Graz, Austria; bernhard.reschmeduni-graz.at Objective: To identify ...