Causative antigens of humidifier lung in vapor from a humidifier: A case report
Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2023 A 68-year-old man exhibited fever and cough three weeks prior to hospital admission after three months of ultrasonic humidifier usage. Chest computed tomography showed bilateral ground-glass opacities, lymphocyte levels in the bronchoalveolar lavage ...
Masafumi Shimoda +8 more
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A Lumped-Mass Model of Membrane Humidifier for PEMFC
Energies, 2022 Maintaining the performance of a fuel cell stack requires appropriate management of water in the membrane electrode. One solution is to apply an external humidifier to the supply gases.
Hoang Nghia Vu +2 more
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Humidifier lung diagnosed by integrating environmental assessment and inhalation provocation testing: a case with Purpureocillium lilacinum as the most likely causative antigen [PDF]
Respiratory Medicine Case ReportsHumidifier lung is a rare phenotype of hypersensitivity pneumonitis caused by inhalation of aerosolized antigens from contaminated humidifiers, and identification of the causative antigen is often challenging.
Satoshi Noguchi +5 more
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Impact of rotating fan and ultrasonic humidifier on the thermal performance of pyramidal solar still [PDF]
Scientific ReportsThis study investigates the performance enhancement of a pyramidal solar still by integrating two active techniques: a low-power fan and an ultrasonic humidifier. Baseline experiments were first conducted using a static pyramidal solar still and compared
H. K. Sachidananda +4 more
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Evidence integration on health damage for humidifier disinfectant exposure and legal presumption of causation [PDF]
Epidemiology and Health, 2023 OBJECTIVES Inhalation exposure to humidifier disinfectants has resulted to various types of health damages in Korea. To determine the epidemiological correlation necessary for presuming the legal causation, we aimed to develop a method to synthesize the ...
Mina Ha +10 more
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Analysis of Display Cabinet Design with Commissioning Test for Fresh Sea Food
Logic, 2021 This research is a design of a display cabinet cooling system with integrated energy from PLN electricity and solar power. This equipment is used for displaying marine fish and other fresh sea food in restaurants or cafes in support of Balinese culinary ...
I Dewa Made Cipta Santosa +4 more
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Anaesthesia and Intensive Care, 1976 A new heated water-bath humidifier operates on a new basic principle which overcomes the practical disadvantages of existing systems. A heated hose is used to control a temperature drop along the whole length of the delivery line instead of raising the temperature of the gases in the delivery line as in previous systems. Therefore the
G C, Grant, J J, Dawson, B E, Roberts
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Numerical simulation of membrane humidifier with different flow fields for medical application
Medicine in Novel Technology and Devices, 2022 Medical humidifier is one of the vital instruments for a respiratory patient in hospital, which is used to humidify the required oxygen for respiratory patients.
Seyed Ali Atyabi +3 more
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Respiratory Medicine Case Reports, 2020 A 46-year-old man visited our hospital with a fever and cough. The symptoms had started two months after continued use of an ultrasonic humidifier. He had hypoxemia on admission and late inspiratory crackles in both lungs on physical examination.
Masafumi Shimoda +4 more
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A Novel Innovative Design Improvement using Value Engineering Technique: a Case Study [PDF]
Journal of Optimization in Industrial Engineering, 2016 Manufacturers around the globe are competing for the identification of innovative value propositions to survive in the competitive and complex market.
Ali Mostafaeipour
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