ASSESSING your company's respiratory protection program is serious business. In some instances, it may mean the difference between life and death. As the owner or manager of a company, you probably ...

New findings highlight the potential role of artificial intelligence in supporting health care professionals, but thorough testing is needed before its integration into everyday clinical practice. New ...

Expert Dennis Terpin discusses the various respiratory issues involved in disaster response and the key components of a respiratory protection program in disaster scenarios. Various kinds of disasters ...

ExSpiron Minute Ventilation Monitoring reveals respiratory depression events which are not detected by continuous respiratory rate measurement. New findings show that after surgery, clinicians would ...

Of note, if the patient is bedfast, complete evaluation of respiratory efficiency is often less than optimal because chest expansion is not always symmetric and percussion notes may be less resonant.

Journal of Public Health Policy, Vol. 30, No. 2 (Jul., 2009), pp. 144-157 (14 pages) In response to the World Health Organization Children's Environment and Health Action Plan for Europe (CEHAPE), a ...

Data collected through ongoing cross-sectional health surveys may be used to improve understanding of how respiratory symptoms contribute to health conditions in US adults. Shortness of breath is ...

A wrist-worn reflective sensor could provide unobtrusive sleep monitoring. (Courtesy: Sleep Medicine Center Kempenhaeghe) Assessing respiratory activity during sleep is a vital step in diagnosing ...

Researchers from Xiamen University and North University of China have introduced a new wearable device that uses wrist pulse impulses to directly assess respiration patterns. The study, which was ...