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Humidifier lung and humidifier fever

Lung, 1988
The aim of our study was to evaluate clinical diagnoses in symptomatic persons exposed to aerosols from humidifiers or air conditioners. In addition, we tried to identify the causative antigens. Results of clinical investigations, including inhalation challenge tests, demonstrated a typical hypersensitivity pneumonitis (humidifier lung) in 9 persons ...
X, Baur   +7 more
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Physical properties measurement and performance comparison of membranes for planar membrane humidifiers

International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 2019
The research and development of humidifiers is important to proton exchange membrane fuel cell systems. The water exchange membrane is a key component to the planar membrane humidifier. In this work, two types of low-cost membrane, the pervaperation (PV)
Chen-Yu Chen   +4 more
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Humidifiers for oxygen therapy: what risk for reusable and disposable devices?

Journal of preventive medicine and hygiene, 2017
Summary Introduction. Nosocomial pneumonia accounts for the vast majority of healthcare-associated infections (HAI). Although numerous medical devices have been discussed as potential vehicles for microorganisms, very little is known about the role ...
V. L. Fauci   +5 more
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PORTABLE HUMIDIFYING UNIT

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1951
THE IMPORTANCE of high humidification in the treatment of tracheobronchial inflammation has been well attested. 1 However, although a number of devices have been produced for the purpose of therapeutic humidification, there still exists a need for an efficient, practical unit that will develop an effective vapor content with high concentration of ...
R M, SMITH, R, DENTON
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Amoebae and humidifier fever

Clinical & Experimental Allergy, 1987
SummaryOne hundred and nineteen sera from workers at four different work sites exposed to different contaminated humidifiers were examined by the immunofluorescent antibody (IFA) technique for antibodies to the amoebae Acanthamoeba polyphaga and Naegleria gruberi. Twenty‐five of the sera were from workers with humidifier fever (HF) and six from workers
M J, Finnegan   +4 more
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HUMIDIFIER

2003
Disclosed is a humidifier with an electrical ventilating unit arranged in a housing for supplying an air throughput stream between air inlets and air outlets in the housing, at least one filtering device for the air throughput stream, and a device feeding fluid to the air throughput stream. Humidifying the air throughput stream is optional by providing
PE PETZ ELECTRO GMBH & CO KG   +2 more
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[Humidifier lung].

Schweizerische medizinische Wochenschrift, 1981
Breathing air from a humidifier or an air conditioning unit contaminated by various microorganisms can cause an acute lung disease involving fever, cough and dyspnea, termed "humidifier fever". This type of hypersensitivity pneumonitis was first described in 1959 by PESTALOZZI in the Swiss literature and subsequently by BANASZAK et al.
P, Gerber   +4 more
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Microbiological contamination in high and low flow oxygen humidifiers: A systematic review.

Medicina Intensiva, 2019
I. de la Fuente-Sancho   +4 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A New Humidifier

Anesthesiology, 1972
M, Spence, A W, Melville
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