Tracheotomy was performed but the dyspnea continued, showing that the foreign body was lodged below the incision.
Kugler recites the description of the case of an arrow-wound of the thorax, complicated by frightful dyspnea and blood in the pleural cavity and in the bronchi, with recovery.
The cicatrix was plainly visible, but the man said he had been able to perform his daily labors, although at the present time suffering from intense dyspnea and anasarca.
Dyspnea continued to increase, and eighteen days after admission the man was in great distress, very little air entering the chest.
The dyspnea augmented during the night, and there was a whistling sound with each respiratory movement.
The other is accompanied by dyspnea or asthma with a sense of discomfort and tightness of the chest that cannot be overcome.
She used to suffer from a severe dyspnea at the sight of a cat and was sure that she could recognize its presence without having seen it.
In the night he had another bloody vomiting, his pulse became smaller and smaller, dyspnea became more and more intense, and he died late in the night.
He lost consciousness several times and the dyspnea lasted for about two hours.
There may be dyspnea and a sense of anguish accompanied with a rapid and feeble pulse.
When a patient is seen in the condition of broken compensation with the much dilated heart, anasarca, dyspnea and suppression of urine, there is no better practice than venesection.
Dizziness may be complained of and dyspnea is usually marked.
Striking cyanosis is an early symptom, while there is little if any dyspnea and edema.
There is dyspnea on slight exertion, possibly some precordial distress, slight edema of the ankles and lower legs and possibly scanty urine.
The pressure rose in cases of decompensated hearts with dyspneaand venous stasis, and returned to normal with improvement in the condition of the patient.
Dyspnea is a frequent symptom, and one for which many patients seek medical advice.
A normal person should hold his breath from thirty to forty seconds without much subsequent dyspnea, while a patient with myocardial weakness can hold his breath only from ten to twenty seconds, and then much temporary dyspnea will follow.
Sooner or later, if this lesion is actually present, the right ventricle dilates and cyanosis and dyspnea occur.
Oxygen does not cure pneumonia, but may relieve a dyspnea and aid a heart until other drugs have time to act.
In sudden cardiac dyspnea nitroglycerin sometimes acts specifically, especially when there is asthma.
The pulse is generally slow, unless broken compensation occurs; dyspnea on exertion is a prominent symptom; the increased secretion of mucus in the bronchial tubes and throat is often troublesome, and there is liable to be considerable cough.
If these patients have an acute heart attack, a feeling of suffocation is their worst symptom and the dyspnea may be great, although there may be no tachycardia, these hearts often acting slowly even when there is serious discomfort.
If there is much exudate, the pressure on the heart of course increases, the cardiac dulness enlarges, dyspnea occurs and even perhaps later cyanosis.
These patients, however, are never quite free from dyspnea on exertion.
The pressure of the body, especially if the person is stout, interferes with the heart action and causes dyspnea and distress.
Without knowing the meaning of the three technical terms in the above sentence, the reader is informed by the comma and dash that "the symptoms" are "dyspnea and serous effusion.
The patient has the symptoms resulting from dilatation,--dyspnea and serous effusion.
Tracheotomy should be done if marked dyspnea be present.
Bronchoscopy in the older children when no dyspnea is present has in recent years, at the suggestion of Prof.
It must always be remembered that large foreign bodies are very prone to cause dyspnea that renders general anesthesia exceedingly dangerous especially in children.
The cardinal signs of this form of dyspnea are: 1.
Compression stenosis of the trachea associated with pulmonary emphysema accounts for the dyspnea during attacks of coughing.
Dyspnea unrelieved by tracheotomy calls for bronchoscopic search for deeper obstruction.
General anesthesia is not only unnecessary but dangerous, because of the dyspnea created by the endoscopic tube.
Anesthesia is absolutely contraindicated because of the possibility of the presence of diphtheria, and especially because of the dyspnea so frequently present in laryngeal disease.
This overriding of a foreign body is apt to cause dangerous dyspnea by compression of the party wall.
Dyspnea is usually present in tracheal foreign bodies, and is due to the bulk of the foreign body plus the subglottic swelling caused by the traumatism of the shiftings of the intruder.
General anesthesia is contraindicated because of the dyspnea apt to be present, and because the struggles of the patient might cause a dislodgment of the laryngeal intruder and aspiration to a lower level.
Tracheotomy is indicated in dyspnea of laryngotracheal origin.
The lungs will show equal aeration, but there may be marked dyspnea without the indrawing of the fossae, if the object be of large size and located below the manubrium.
All cases of dyspnea or dysphagia should be studied endoscopically if the cause of the condition cannot be definitely found and treated by other means.
