Abstracts

Health

Search abstracts:

Sexual health and the respiratory patient

Article Abstract:

Guidance on ways of discussing and promoting the sexual health of patients with respiratory diseases is presented. Their physical and psychological symptoms are described and strategies for enhancing sexual wellbeing are explored.

Sexual disorders, Management, Study and teaching, Patient education, Respiratory disease nursing

---

Recognition, prevention and management of sputum retention

Article Abstract:

This article examines treatment options for the excess secretion of tracheobronchial sputum, focusing on the clearing of the airway through coughing. Topics include patient hydration, pain relief and physiotherapy.

United Kingdom, Management dynamics, Offices of All Other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners, Offices of health practitioners, not elsewhere classified, Nurses, Health aspects, Airway (Medicine), Airway

---

A guide to assessing sputum

Article Abstract:

Sputum can provide important information for the assessment of respiratory disease. Issues concerning sputum production, patient assessment and the treatment of patients with respiratory disease are discussed.

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Maternal mortality in the United States, 1979-1986. National trends in the management of tubal pregnancy, 1970-1987
• Abstracts: Progress in pathogenesis and management of clinical intraamniotic infection. Evidence relating bacteria vaginosis to intraamniotic infection
• Abstracts: Pivotal role of early and sustained infarct vessel patency in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Intracranial hemorrhage after use of tissue plasminogen activator for coronary thrombolysis
• Abstracts: Beneficial effect of carotid endarterectomy in symptomatic patients with high-grade carotid stenosis. Efficacy of carotid endarterectomy for asymptomatic carotid stenosis
• Abstracts: Stereotaxic needle-core biopsy and fine-needle aspiration cytologic evaluation of nonpalpable breast lesions. Image-directed percutaneous biopsies with a biopsy gun

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.