Respiratory Illness

NEW YORK — In this video from the Infectious Diseases in Children Symposium, Red Book editor David W. Kimberlin, MD, talks about updates coming to the 2024 edition of the AAP’s guide for pediatric infectious diseases.

With advancements in artificial intelligence and patient-monitoring technology, properly diagnosing individuals who report wheezing, snoring, coughing or crackles is expected to get easier, according to a review published in CHEST.

A decades-long study that enrolled participants in the 1940s found that contracting a lower respiratory tract infection in early childhood was associated with a higher risk for premature death from respiratory disease in adulthood.

Elevations in metal, sulfur and particle oxidative potential in the air strengthened the link between short-term exposure to outdoor pollution and respiratory hospitalizations among children, according to study results.

A new machine learning algorithm can detect whether an individual has pneumonia by recording coughs and measuring the acoustics of rooms and spaces, according to a study presented at the 183rd Meeting of the Acoustical Society of America.

Healio Pulmonology has compiled the top news on COVID-19 posted in 2022.

When advanced, chronic pulmonary conditions, such as COPD, worsen, physicians may recommend these patients consider hospice care.

Over the past 6 decades, despite improvements in air quality and tobacco use, socioeconomic disparities in pulmonary disease prevalence, respiratory symptoms and lung function persisted and, in some cases, worsened, according to new data.

Among hospitalized patients with COVID-19, those with reduced first-phase ejection fraction were more likely to die compared with patients with normal first-phase EF, researchers reported.