Background: Current guidelines suggest a role for clinical assessment of chest rise in determining adequacy of positive pressure ventilation (PPV). However, these guidelines do not state how chest ...

(HealthDay News) — Chest computed tomography (CT) is increasingly being used, and can provide additional insight, in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), according to research published in ...

Fresh guidance has been issued to GPs to help in the early diagnosis of the cause of chest pain, to prevent unnecessary deaths from heart attacks. The guidance suggests that some tests, such as ...

An international team of researchers has developed and validated a 2 h diagnostic protocol to identify patients presenting with chest pain who are at low risk of experiencing a cardiac event. “Data ...