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August 28, 2024 - The Case A 55-year-old man with lung cancer recently had the lower lobe of his left lung removed.
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January 01, 2011 - failure-reevaluate
The Case
A 61-year-old woman receiving palliative chemotherapy for non–small-cell lung … psnet.ahrq.gov//#references
likelihood that the patient has received another nephrotoxin (i.e., cisplatin for lung
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August 28, 2024 - February 1, 2004
WebM&M Cases
Charcoal Lavage of the Lungs
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June 21, 2016 - and validation of electronic health record–based triggers to detect delays in follow-up of abnormal lung
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November 03, 2015 - Lactate > 2 mmol/L Urinary output Creatinine > 2 mg/dL Worsening hypoxemia Acute lung … injury with PaO2/FiO2 Acute lung injury with PaO2/FiO2 Bilirubin > 2 mg/dL Platelet count 9/ … October 1, 2003
WebM&M Cases
The Dropped Lung
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December 01, 2012 - The patient underwent an extensive work-up including bronchoscopy, which revealed a pyogenic lung abscess … Related Resources From the Same Author(s)
WebM&M Cases
The Lung … Use
June 1, 2003
WebM&M Cases
The Dropped Lung
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May 01, 2015 - Williams RG, Pearson GD, Barst RJ, et al; National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Working Group on … Report of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Working
Group on research in adult congenital … Transplantation
Society; International Pediatric
Transplant Association; International
Society for Heart and Lung
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April 01, 2016 - psnet.ahrq.gov//#references
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of CT scans for the presence of a lung … practice), 83% of participants
failed to notice a picture of a gorilla—48 times larger than the average lung
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October 13, 2025 - another ED by paramedics where the consulting pulmonary physician diagnosed her with a rare cystic lung … for evaluating spontaneous pneumothorax and educating providers to increase awareness of rare cystic lung
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February 28, 2024 - endotracheal tube (ETT), among other conditions.2 The patient may also bite down on the ETT or resist
lung … are required to
displace excess adipose tissue in the chest wall and the abdomen when inflating the lung … Positive pressure in the lungs can quickly transform a small asymptomatic
pneumothorax into a tension
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/under-pressure-tracheostomy-cuff-over-inflation-leading-tissue-necrosis-and-cuff-rupture
March 15, 2023 - Given his severe lung damage and the anticipated need for very slow weaning from the ventilator, the … Patients with COVID-19 lung injury should also be evaluated for extended tracheostomy tubes, but unfortunately … February 1, 2023
WebM&M Cases
The Lung Nodule That
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July 21, 2021 - May 1, 2011
WebM&M Cases
Charcoal Lavage of the Lungs
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psnet.ahrq.gov/node/49394/psn-pdf
April 01, 2003 - An amniocentesis showing fetal
lung maturity would permit induction of labor without the risks of loss … , the physicians now weighed options of either proceeding
with an amniocentesis to determine fetal lung
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psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/import/webmm.ahrq.gov.182_slideshow.ppt
September 01, 2008 - Lung. 2007;185:249-255. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17710485
Garcia-Vidal C, Calbo E, Pascual … indicated to diminish severe inflammatory manifestations of the infections (e.g., Pneumocystis carinii lung
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February 01, 2014 - The Case
A 61-year-old woman receiving palliative chemotherapy for non–small-cell lung cancer at a … dose of 1 g and the likelihood that the patient has received another nephrotoxin (i.e., cisplatin for lung
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psnet.ahrq.gov/sites/default/files/import/webmm.ahrq.gov.347_slideshow.ppt
May 01, 2015 - than 2 hours despite adequate fluid resuscitation
Creatinine > 2 mg/dL
Worsening hypoxemia
Acute lung … injury with PaO2/FiO2 < 250 in the absence of pneumonia as infection source
Acute lung injury with
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/strongyloides-hidden-traveler-and-potentially-lethal-missed-diagnosis
August 25, 2021 - through the skin, begins maturing to adulthood and travels through the bloodstream to the new host’s lungs … Once in the lungs, it travels up the airway, is swallowed, and penetrates the small bowel mucosa, where … person through the bowel mucosa or the perianal skin and undergo migration through the bloodstream and lungs
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April 29, 2020 - She was placed on the list for a lung transplant. … The method may also be used to bridge to lung or heart transplant, or for
short-term support during … drained from a large
central vein (usually the inferior vena cava), passing through an artificial lung
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/consequences-miscommunication-regarding-possible-artifact
May 11, 2019 - Following needle biopsy guided by computed tomography, the lung mass was diagnosed as a Stage IIB adenocarcinoma … Appendicitis
June 1, 2003
WebM&M Cases
The Dropped Lung
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psnet.ahrq.gov/web-mm/airway-obstruction-during-anterior-cervical-spine-surgery
January 29, 2021 - endotracheal tube (ETT), among other conditions. 2 The patient may also bite down on the ETT or resist lung … are required to displace excess adipose tissue in the chest wall and the abdomen when inflating the lung … Positive pressure in the lungs can quickly transform a small asymptomatic pneumothorax into a tension