Rationale: Because of increased levels of airborne particulate matter in Southwest Asia,
deployed military personnel are at risk for developing acute and chronic lung diseases. …

Military personnel are a unique group of individuals referred to the pulmonary physician for
evaluation. Despite accession standards that limit entrance into the military for individuals …

Methods Two 5-day training courses were established to provide training to the 65-member
Department of Defense Ebola Response Team, which would be activated during a stateside …

Military deployment to Southwest Asia since 2003 in support of Operations Enduring Freedom/Iraqi
Freedom/New Dawn has presented unique challenges from a pulmonary perspective…

This is a case report of a 77-year-old female with Crohn's disease manifested by recurrent
bowel obstructions, who required surgical resections on two occasions but no further medical …

BACKGROUND: The study objective was to determine differences in the proportion of
supranormal pulmonary function tests (PFTs) between active duty (AD) military personnel and a …

BACKGROUND: Current published guidelines on spirometry interpretation suggest an
elevated FVC and FEV 1 > 100% of predicted with an obstructive ratio may represent a …

Objective. Exercise-induced bronchospasm (EIB) has a prevalence of 6% to 7% in United
States Army personnel and 3% to 13% in professional athletes. There are reported concerns …

When the tracheal mucosa is bypassed via endotracheal tube (ETT) intubation or from a
surgically placed tracheostomy, humidification is essential to preserve tracheobronchial …

… Overall, the average apparent cell capacitance (C cell ) of all the SCs that we patch clamped
was 18.5 ± 0.5 pF (n= 156) while in ORNs C cell averaged 4.4 ± 0.4 pF (n= 10). The R m of …