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Background: Postoperative sore throat after extubation is a common complication after surgery following general anesthesia. Several methods have been proposed, such as the use of intracuff dexamethasone to control these complications, but there is not ...
Mitra Jabalameli+3 more
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Chronic Cough as the Presenting Symptom of Eosinophilic Esophagitis
A 14-year-old male initially presented to the Emergency Department (ED) for a chronic, persistent cough and chest pain with concurrent history of asthma and gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD).
Victoria Shum+3 more
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Early symptoms and sensations as predictors of lung cancer: a machine learning multivariate model. [PDF]
The aim of this study was to identify a combination of early predictive symptoms/sensations attributable to primary lung cancer (LC). An interactive e-questionnaire comprised of pre-diagnostic descriptors of first symptoms/sensations was administered to ...
Bernhardson, B-M.+9 more
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Cough-induced rib fracture in a smoker: a case report
Background Coughing is considered an important mechanism that helps the body get rid of foreign substances or prevent their entry into the tracheobronchial tree.
Aimee Daccache+4 more
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Introduction Refractory cough, a chronic cough with an unclear diagnosis or poor treatment response. The symptoms are often stubborn and persistent, causing serious complications and lowering the patient's quality of life. Cough hypersensitivity syndrome
Shengyuan Wang+9 more
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The COUGHVID crowdsourcing dataset: A corpus for the study of large-scale cough analysis algorithms [PDF]
Cough audio signal classification has been successfully used to diagnose a variety of respiratory conditions, and there has been significant interest in leveraging Machine Learning (ML) to provide widespread COVID-19 screening. However, there is currently no validated database of cough sounds with which to train such ML models.
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All patients operated for oesophageal cancer in Sweden from 2013 to April 2018 were identified, and 246 patients were recruited to this population‐based nationwide Swedish study. The results show that longitudinal health‐related quality of life after minimally invasive oesophagectomy was similar to that of the open surgical approach.
F. Klevebro+4 more
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Epidemic Dreams: Dreaming about health during the COVID-19 pandemic [PDF]
The continuity hypothesis of dreams suggests that the content of dreams is continuous with the dreamer's waking experiences. Given the unprecedented nature of the experiences during COVID-19, we studied the continuity hypothesis in the context of the pandemic. We implemented a deep-learning algorithm that can extract mentions of medical conditions from
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Delayed antibiotic prescriptions for respiratory infections [PDF]
Background: Concerns exist regarding antibiotic prescribing for respiratory tract infections (RTIs) owing to adverse reactions, cost, and antibacterial resistance. One proposed strategy to reduce antibiotic prescribing is to provide prescriptions, but to
Del Mar, Chris B+4 more
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An unusual case of acute chest pain
Thoracic musculoskeletal disorders are important differential diagnoses in patients presenting to the emergency department with acute-onset chest pain. Although fractures of the ribs usually occur due to trauma, non-traumatic fractures can be seen in the
Ananda Datta, Raghavendrun Sivasankar
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