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1. Climate and Chest Disorders in Schoolchildren

Author

K. J. Cullen

Subjects
Male, Rural Population, Pediatrics, medicine.medical_specialty, Adolescent, Climate, Respiratory Tract Diseases, Eczema, Chest disorders, Environmental health, medicine, Humans, Bronchitis, Child, General Environmental Science, Asthma, business.industry, Australia, Temperature, General Engineering, Rhinitis, Allergic, Seasonal, Papers and Originals, General Medicine, medicine.disease, United Kingdom, Critical appraisal, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Hay fever, Female, Rural area, business, human activities, Rural population, New Zealand
Abstract

A survey of the respiratory disorders in schoolchildren from rural areas showed no significant differences between the United Kingdom and Australia and New Zealand in loss of time from school owing to chest illness. Contrary to expectations the warmer the region the greater the prevalence of bronchitis, asthma, and hay fever. These results should encourage a critical appraisal of the respiratory benefits of warmer climates, and also suggest that the English climate should prove to be no more than a minor barrier to any future reduction of respiratory mortality in the U.K.

Published
1972
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2. The maximal midexpiratory flow time

Author

J.J. Segall and B.A. Butterworth

Subjects
Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine, Spirometry, Adult, Male, medicine.medical_specialty, Time Factors, Adolescent, Pulmonary Fibrosis, Respiratory Tract Diseases, Airflow obstruction, Chest disorders, Internal medicine, medicine, Humans, Bronchitis, Aged, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Respiration, Ventilatory function, respiratory system, Middle Aged, Asthma, respiratory tract diseases, Pulmonary Emphysema, Chronic Disease, Cardiology, Physical therapy, Female, business, Flow time, circulatory and respiratory physiology
Abstract

Summary In 54 adult subjects (46 patients with chronic chest disorders and 8 normal individuals) the maximal midexpiratory flow-time (MMFT) was found to be closely related to the FEV1%. The MMFT can thus be used as an index for airflow obstruction, and an argument is made for including it in routine clinical spirometry. It is not well related to the FEV1, indicating that it does not test ventilatory capacity. The MMFR was more closely related to the FEV1 than to the FEV1%. It seems less satisfactory than the FEV1 and MMFT as a test of ventilatory function.

Published
1968

3. Climate and chest disorders

Author

J D Bury

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, business.industry, Climate, General Engineering, Rhinitis, Allergic, Seasonal, Humidity, General Medicine, medicine.disease, Asthma, Saskatchewan, Chest disorders, Emergency medicine, General Earth and Planetary Sciences, Medicine, Humans, Seasons, business, General Environmental Science, Research Article
Published
1972

4. Pneumoperitoneum and antibiotic therapy: treatment of pyogenic lung abscess with cavitation

Author

Arthur Rest

Subjects
medicine.medical_specialty, medicine.drug_class, Antibiotics, Lung abscess, Chest disorders, Pneumoperitoneum, Bronchoscopy, Antibiotic therapy, Abdomen, Medicine, Humans, Lung Abscess, Lung, medicine.diagnostic_test, business.industry, Insufflation, medicine.disease, Abscess, Surgery, Anti-Bacterial Agents, Penicillin, business, Scientific study, Pneumoperitoneum, Artificial, medicine.drug
Abstract

Pyogenic lung abscess with cavity formation is seldom mentioned in the literature dealing with chest disorders. Whether lung abscess occurs so infrequently that it is thought unimportant or whether it is considered too benign, self-limited, and responsive to antibiotics to require scientific study is not known. In 1957 Wolcott and Murphy1stated that the prognosis and management of lung abscess has changed dramatically in the past 15 years. They reported on 70 patients treated since 1941. In 19 patients treated between 1941 to 1944 with sulfonamide and routine bronchoscopy the mortality was 31.5%. From 1945 to 1951, 29 patients were treated with penicillin given both parenterally and in an aerosol form and supplemented with routine bronchoscopy; five persons, or 17%, died. The third group comprised 27 patients treated from 1951 to 1955. Bronchoscopy was now used only to secure cultural material and for sensitivity studies. The drug of choice

Published
1960

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