News Briefs Highlight Research In Pulmonary, Critical Care And Sleep Medicine At CHEST 2008 Part 8

#7359 INCREASED BMI MAY BLUNT ASTHMA MEDICATIONS (Wednesday, October 29, 10:30 AM EST) People who be portly or obese may not undertake the predestined effects of asthma medication. In a quaint analysis, researchers from GlaxoSmithKline analyzed the effect of getting dense thing mass index (BMI) against achieve asthma rule near fluticasone propionate/salmeterol via Diskus associate with montelukast. Overall, a BMI >25 appear to blunt a person's riposte to asthma psychotherapy surrounded by standard; even so the mission of FSC compared to MON persist over and done with the entire continuum of BMIs.

#6700 CHEST COMPRESSIONS DIFFICULT FOR MEN AND WOMEN TO PERFORM (Wednesday, October 29, 10:30 AM EST) Female sickbay train member own more stumbling blockage performing okay casket compressions (CC) than manly hospital staff. Researchers from Albert Einstein College of Medicine in New York compared the CC technique of 28 male and 30 feminine medical housestaff using a tolerant simulator, since and after CC grounding. Subjects also shift through a posttraining moderation theory test where on high bayonet soil they endeavour to get something done adequate CC in rather of 120 second or until fatigue prevented further go. Prior to training, 50 percent of the male flock perform adequate CC, while none of the female group performed adequate CC. Post-training, 89 percent of the male group performed adequate CC and 37 percent of the female group performed adequate CC. There be no correlation linking body mass index and adequate CC in any group, however taller females performed advanced CC than shorter females. Regardless of sexual category, one and only 14 percent of subject be competent to continue adequate CC for 120 seconds, the recommended guideline for one cycle of compressions.

#7010 NEW ANTIDOTE FOR CYANIDE POISONING (Wednesday, October 29, 1:00 PM EST) The nihilist agent cobinamide could be an a short time ago rightly antidote for cyanide poison, unbelievably during forest fire rescue or mass casualty setting where prolonged fire smoke inhalation may come to outperform.

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