Figure 1This 57-year old man, who has history of chronic obstructive airway disease complicated with cor pulmonale, who is still an active smoker, was intubated this morning in view of a progressive deteriorating respiratory failure type 2. Figure 1 shows the chest X-ray AFTER intubation, and Figure 2 is the chest X-ray PRIOR to intubation.Figure 2This was his ABG results just prior to
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Patchy Consolidation, often Bilateral, was the Most Common Chest X-ray Finding Associated with A(H1N1) Infection?
In a recent study done on 66 out of 222 patients with A(H1N1) from May to July 2009 at a hospital in Michigan, who also had chest radiography findings done as part of the clinical work-up, it was found that theinitial radiograph was abnormal in 28 of the 66 patients (42%)with patchy consolidation in 14 out of these 28 (50%)ground-glass opacities in 7 out of 28 (25%), and ground-glass opacities
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