Airway obstruction

Stridor

Stridor is a high pitched wheezing sound resulting from turbulent air flow in the upper airway. It is primarily inspiratory. It can be indicative of serious airway obstruction from severe conditions...

Intestinal Obstruction

Gastric outlet obstruction

Surgical Airway

Ion Channel Helps Clear Airway Mucus

Allergens, such as dust, pollen, and smoke, trigger airway inflammation, leading to an increase in mucus secretion. The mucus binds up the allergens and, in a process known as mucociliary clearance, e...

Boehringer’s Olodaterol Gains Advisory Committee Support, But May See Indication Clarified

FDA’s Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee voted 15-1 that efficacy and safety had been shown, but said the label should not imply it is a treatment for chronic bronchitis and emphysema, just...

Iatrogenic obstruction after sling surgery

As sling surgery becomes an increasingly popular treatment option for women with stress urinary incontinence (SUI), iatrogenic obstruction and postoperative voiding dysfunction are becoming recognized...

Managing the Airway During Cardiac Arrest Managing the Airway During Cardiac Arrest

For decades, an axiom of care in the resuscitation of cardiopulmonary arrest was “airway first.” Airway management seeks to maintain or create an open pathway to the lungs to ensure adequate oxyge...

Prehospital Airway Management for Out-of-Hospital Cardiac Arrest—Reply

In Reply: As we indicated in our article, our study did not collect information on the process of advanced airway management, which would require independent observers. This information would have bee...

Antagonists of Hyaluronan Signaling for Treatment of Airway Inflammation and Hyperresponsiveness

Airway inflammation and hyperresponsiveness are hallmarks of airway disease. Investigators at NIEHS identified a new class of compounds that can block hyaluronan signaling and inhibit airway hyperresp...

Latest News From "The Pink Sheet" DAILY - AdCom Votes In Favor Of Olodaterol

Boehringer's Olodaterol Gains Advisory Committee Support, But May See Indication Clarified FDA's Pulmonary-Allergy Drugs Advisory Committee voted 15-1 that efficacy and safety had been shown, but said...

Th17 responses in chronic allergic airway inflammation abrogate regulatory T-cell-mediated tolerance and contribute to airway remodeling

Fluctuation analysis of respiratory impedance waveform in asthmatic patients: effect of airway obstruction.

Fluctuation analysis has great potential to contribute to pulmonary clinical science and practice. We evaluated the relationship between asthma and the respiratory impedance recurrence period density...

Upper airway obstruction associated with flexed cervical position after posterior occipitocervical fusion.

Upper airway obstruction resulting from overflexion fixation of the cervical spine is a rare but life-threatening complication after cervical spine surgery. There are few reports of dyspnea after a po...

Women with partial upper airway obstruction are not less sleepy than those with obstructive sleep apnea.

PURPOSE: Sleep-disordered breathing (SDB) differs between genders in terms of the type, signs, and symptoms of the disease. Partial upper airway obstruction is underdiagnosed and undertreated. METHODS...

COPD and Depressive Symptoms: Findings from the Guangzhou Biobank Cohort Study.

BACKGROUND: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) co-exists with depression, but important questions remain about the determinants of this association. PURPOSE: We examined the association of d...

Fetal tracheolaryngeal airway obstruction: prenatal evaluation by sonography and MRI.

We reviewed the sonographic and MRI findings of tracheolaryngeal obstruction in the fetus. Conditions that can cause tracheolaryngeal obstruction include extrinsic causes such as lymphatic malformatio...