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Educational aims To help readers understand the best way to use oxygen when they care
for patients with medical emergencies. To encourage best practice in the use of emergency …

Rationale: Some patients with severe asthma are immunologically sensitized to one or more
fungi, a clinical entity categorized as severe asthma with fungal sensitization (SAFS). It is not …

Background Multiple studies have linked fungal exposure to asthma, but the link to severe
asthma is controversial. We studied the relationship between asthma severity and …

Background. Carmustine (BCNU) is an anticancer drug known to produce pulmonary
fibrosis as a side effect within three years of treatment. It is not known whether pulmonary …

Oxygen is the most commonly used drug in critical care. However, because it is a gas, most
clinicians and most patients do not regard it as a drug. For this reason, the use of medical …

Abstract 103 patients with acute airflow obstruction (56 asthma, 47 chronic obstructive
pulmonary disease [COPD]) completed a double-blind trial of nebulised bronchodilator …

Background Following reports from the National Patient Safety Agency of deaths and
serious harm from intercostal chest drains (ICD) we conducted a national survey among …

Background Many trials of nebulized therapy have used nebulized saline as a" placebo".
However, nebulized isotonic saline is sometimes used to assist sputum expectoration and …

Previously, we have reported in 1990 that 35% of carmustine treated patients (6 of 17) who
survived childhood brain tumors died of pulmonary fibrosis between 2 and 13 years after …