Objective Provide explicit expert-basedconsensus recommendations for the management of
adults with primary andsecondary spontaneous pneumothoraces in an emergency …

… 3 Correspondence and requests for reprints should be addressed to John E. Heffner, MD,
Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Medical University of South Carolina, 171 …

Pneumothorax is classified as spontaneous (not caused by trauma or any obvious precipitating
factor), traumatic, or iatrogenic (Table 1). Primary spontaneous pneumothorax occurs in …

Palliative care aims to prevent and relieve suffering by controlling symptoms and to provide
other support to patients and families in order to maintain and improve their quality of living. …

… Correspondence and requests for reprints should be addressed to John E. Heffner, MD,
FACP, Professorof Clinical Medicine, University of Arizona Health SciencesCenter, Department …

Study objective To (1) determine appropriate decision thresholds and diagnostic accuracies
for pleural fluid (PF) tests that discriminate between exudative and transudative pleural …

Malignant pleural effusions (MPEs) are an important complication for patients with intrathoracic
and extrathoracic malignancies. Median survival after diagnosis of an MPE is 4 months. …

In most patients, mechanical ventilation is a short-term treatment used for up to 7 days to
support or replace spontaneous breathing until the cause of respiratory failure resolves or …

Study objectives To assess the accuracy of pleuralfluid (PF) pH in predicting duration of
survival of patients withmalignant pleural effusions. Design Analysis ofpatient-level data from …

Background Pleurodesis is important in the management of malignant pleural effusions, but
no consensus exists on the optimal agent or methods of pleurodesis. How pleurodesis is …