Abstract
Setting:
Medical Intensive Care Unit of Regions Hospital, a University of Minnesota-affiliated teaching hospital.
Patient:
Mechanically ventilated woman with status asthmaticus and acute respiratory failure.
Intervention:
Observations of airway pressure and flow tracings before and after bronchoscopic inspection and airway lavage.
Main results:
Four newly observed signs were recorded that may serve to identify occult central airway mucus plugging in the ventilated asthmatic patient.
MeSH terms
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Adrenal Cortex Hormones / therapeutic use
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Adult
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Airway Obstruction / etiology*
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Airway Obstruction / physiopathology
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Airway Obstruction / therapy
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Airway Resistance / physiology
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Anti-Bacterial Agents / therapeutic use
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Bronchodilator Agents / therapeutic use
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Bronchoscopy / methods
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Combined Modality Therapy
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Critical Care / methods
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Critical Illness / therapy
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Female
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Follow-Up Studies
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Humans
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Intensive Care Units
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Monitoring, Physiologic / instrumentation
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Mucus*
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Pressure
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Pulmonary Gas Exchange
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Respiration, Artificial / methods*
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Respiratory Insufficiency / complications
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Respiratory Insufficiency / diagnosis*
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Respiratory Insufficiency / therapy*
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Risk Assessment
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Status Asthmaticus / complications
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Status Asthmaticus / diagnosis*
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Status Asthmaticus / therapy
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Tomography, X-Ray Computed
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Treatment Outcome
Substances
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Adrenal Cortex Hormones
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Anti-Bacterial Agents
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Bronchodilator Agents