[PDF][PDF] Knowledge of cough hygiene and disposal of sputum in patients with pulmonary tuberculosis

DC Cheriamane, G Mohammed, B Verma… - IOSR Journal of …, 2017 - researchgate.net
… disease, hazards faulty way of coughing and indiscriminate sputum disposal at home as well
… the cough hygiene practice and sputum disposal technique among tubercular patients. To …

A new paradigm in respiratory hygiene: increasing the cohesivity of airway secretions to improve cough interaction and reduce aerosol dispersion

G Zayas, J Dimitry, A Zayas, D O'Brien, M King - BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2005 - Springer
… An aliquot of sputum is layered on the bottom of the model trachea and driven forward by …
sputum samples under standardized cough-simulating airflow is used as a measure of cough

Sputum colour for diagnosis of a bacterial infection in patients with acute cough

A Altiner, S Wilm, W Däubener, C Bormann… - … journal of primary …, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
… acute cough patients. However, in this study we did not focus on the causality of acute
cough but on the relationship between sputum colour and the presence of a bacterial infection. …

Sputum quality: Can you tell by looking?

DJ Flournoy, LJ Davidson - American Journal of Infection Control, 1993 - Elsevier
… Education may include oral hygiene instructions … l8 This seems plausible; a patient with a
productive cough is more likely to have rinsed or diluted the oropharyngeal cavity with sputum

Randomised controlled trial of antibiotics in patients with cough and purulent sputum.

NC Stott, RR West - Br Med J, 1976 - bmj.com
… Hence we randomised adult patients with cough and purulent sputum who had no abnormal
chest signs because there was no consensus view among the doctors who participated in …

The Cough Cylinder: a tool to study measures against airborne spread of (myco-) bacteria

K Vanden Driessche, BJ Marais… - … of tuberculosis and …, 2013 - ingentaconnect.com
… The WHO highly recommends cough etiquette and respiratory hygiene (patients wearing …
the colonies of interest cultured from the patient’s sputum. When the nature of these target …

Infection control and the significance of sputum and other respiratory secretions from adult patients with cystic fibrosis

JE Moore, A Shaw, JL Howard, JSG Dooley… - Annals of Clinical …, 2004 - Springer
… to the general public, through coughing and expectorating sputum. Our study demonstrated
the … of large quantities of sputum and that good personal hygiene practices should be …

Mucus, phlegm, and sputum in cystic fibrosis

BK Rubin - Respiratory care, 2009 - rc.rcjournal.com
… Tenacity and lower viscosity lead to decreased cough … airway hygiene in CF by assisting with
sputum expectoration. This … is measure how much sputum you can cough up each morning, …

Variability of infectious aerosols produced during coughing by patients with pulmonary tuberculosis

KP Fennelly, EC Jones-López, I Ayakaka… - American journal of …, 2012 - atsjournals.org
… than one-third of patients with sputum culture–positive TB … voluntary coughing, and we
demonstrated that cough aerosol … Cough aerosol cultures were best predicted by the sputum

The role of mucus in cough research

BK Rubin - Lung, 2010 - Springer
… the cough clearability of sputum in a simulated cough … treatment of cough it is important to
remember that cough serves … in promoting hygiene and that the interaction between cough and …