BACKGROUND
Several sets of Canadian guidelines for the diagnosis and management of asthma have been published over the past 15 years. Since the last revision of the 1999 Canadian Asthma Consensus… (More)
American journal of respiratory and critical care…
1995
Coronary artery bypass surgery is frequently complicated by postoperative atelectasis. Although routinely prescribed, the efficacy of any specific chest physical therapy is not well established. We… (More)
METHODS
Three hundred forty-two patients with lung cancer and 99 patients with nonneoplastic lung diseases (control group) underwent intraoperative pleural lavage with 300 ml physiologic saline… (More)
OBJECTIVE
To study the influence of low-dose dopexamine on splanchnic oxygenation during major abdominal surgery.
DESIGN
Prospective, randomized, placebo-controlled study.
SETTING
University… (More)
Between 1975 and 1985 76 patients underwent surgery of pulmonary metastases in our hospital. Most often the primary tumor was located in carcinomas of the colon and rectum (19 patients), followed by… (More)