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A Radomyski

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PubMed1980

Plasma catecholamines during exercise-induced bronchoconstriction in bronchial asthma.

Plasma levels of adrenaline and noradrenaline during and after submaximal exercise in patients with bronchial asthma were investigated. Three groups were studied comprising 10 patients with exercise-induced bronchoconstriction (EIB), 10 asthmatic patients without EIB and four normal control subjects. Plasma catecholamines were measured at rest, at the end of exercise, and five and 15 minutes after exercise. Changes in airway resistance were assessed by measuring peak expiratory flow rate. Significant differences in catecholamine levels between reacting and non-reacting patients were found. In 10 patients developing EIB adrenaline and noradrenaline levels had risen significantly by the end of exercise and remained elevated up to the fifth minute of recovery. The rise in catecholamine levels in non-reacting asthmatics was insignificant. In control subjects noradrenaline had increased significantly by the end of exercise.

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[Intensive treatment of respiratory failure--personal experiences].

Controlled oxygen-therapy was used in 30 out of 49 patients (61%) with the acute respiratory failure or exacerbations of the chronic respiratory failure treated at ICU (Group Y), while artificial ventilation in the remaining 19 patients (39%; Group B). An improvement was achieved in 70% of patients of Group A and 42% in Group B. Overall improvement was achieved in 59% of the treated patients. There were 69% of treated patients with infections. Totally 41% of the treated patients died (30% of Group A and 58% of Group B). An analysis of the results has been carried out in various subgroups of the treated patients, i.e. the acute and exacerbated respiratory failure as well as partial and complete respiratory insufficiency. The result of high risk patients have also been analysed. This subgroup included sudden cardiac arrest, shock and non-compensated acidosis. Favourable effects of the intensive care of patients with infections have been discussed with particular reference to the life hazard in case of septic complications. Emphasis is on the unfavorable effects of therapy in patients with respiratory failure complicated with pulmonary embolism. Indications to the use of respirator and complications of the artificial ventilation have been discussed.

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[Attitudes to tobacco smoking among Warsaw's physicians].

Physicians in the majority of countries in which tobacco-smoking has successfully been reduced stopped smoking themselves as the first professional group. Physician's attitude towards smoking patients plays an important role. Sometimes a single medical consultation helps some tobacco-abused patients to quit smoking for ever. However, the time of such a consultation should be adequately long. Out of all methods to control smoking such a consultation has the widest social extend and produces the most favourable effect; about 3% of the tobacco abusers quit smoking. These results are even better if physician consultation is supplemented with other activities such as supply with proper literature, reference to antinicotine center and return to the subject at any further consultation. It means that half a million smokers would quit this habit if every physician employed in the primary carek in Poland would have consulted each smoking patient. We attempted to check physician's attitude towards tobacco-smoking and their activity in this field.

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