Simple Actions May Reduce Postop Pulmonary ComplicationsSimple Actions May Reduce Postop Pulmonary Complications
A postoperative program including incentive spirometry, coughing and deep breathing, oral care, patient education, getting out of bed often, and head-of-bed elevation may reduce common complications. Medscape Medical News (Source: Medscape Today Headlines)
Source: Medscape Today Headlines - June 5, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: General Surgery News Source Type: news
Spirometry Reveals Over-Diagnosis Of COPD Among Uninsured Patients
More than 40 percent of patients being treated for COPD at a federally funded clinic did not have the disease, researchers found after evaluating the patients with spirometry, the diagnostic "gold standard" for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. "While there have been many studies of the under-diagnosis of COPD, there has not been a U.S.-based study that has quantified the problem of over-diagnosis," said Christian Ghattas, MD., MSc, a second-year medical resident at Saint Elizabeth Health Center in Youngstown, Ohio, who presented the research at ATS 2013... (Source: Health News from Medical News Today)
Source: Health News from Medical News Today - May 24, 2013 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: COPD Source Type: news
Study finds COPD is over-diagnosed among uninsured patients
(American Thoracic Society) More than 40 percent of patients being treated for COPD at a federally funded clinic did not have the disease, researchers found after evaluating the patients with spirometry, the diagnostic "gold standard" for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. (Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health)
Source: EurekAlert! - Medicine and Health - May 22, 2013 Category: Global & Universal Source Type: news
A Guide to Performing Quality Assured Diagnostic Spirometry
This step-by-step guide shows clinicians how to ensure that diagnostic spirometry performed in primary care and other settings is quality assured and provides valid results for patients. It details how spirometry should be performed, the interpretation and reporting of results and methods for quality assurance. The guide also illustrates common technical errors and offers a Top Ten Tips for reporting spirometry results.
The guide can also be used by commissioners alongside the Commissioning Toolkit for Respiratory Services to specify spirometry service standards.
(Source: NHS Networks)
Source: NHS Networks - April 22, 2013 Category: UK Health Authors: Maria Axford Source Type: news
Go For The Glory Quiz: Carcinoma?; Spirometry to Assess Chronic Cough?; Neurofibroma?; Laryngeal Neoplasm?
Test your clinical skills in this week’s 5-question quiz. (Source: Consultant Live)
Source: Consultant Live - April 3, 2013 Category: Primary Care Source Type: news
Call for more COPD screening for smokers
Screening smokers with spirometry for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease picks up more cases than symptom-based detection, research suggests. (Source: MedWire News - Respiratory)
Source: MedWire News - Respiratory - January 22, 2013 Category: Respiratory Medicine Source Type: news
