The mucus clearance system is the dominant mechanical host defense system of the human
lung. Mucus is cleared from the lung by cilia and airflow, including both two-phase gas-liquid …

Background Adequate personal protective equipment is needed to reduce the rate of
transmission of COVID-19 to health care workers. Otolaryngology groups are recommending …

Pulmonary complications are major causes of morbidity and mortality for patients with
severe expiratory muscle weakness. The purpose of this study was to compare peak cough …

Humans commonly exhale aerosols comprised of small droplets of airway-lining fluid during
normal breathing. These “exhaled bioaerosols” may carry airborne pathogens and thereby …

Abstract Background The Influenza A H1N1 virus can be transmitted via direct, indirect, and
airborne route to non-infected subjects when an infected patient coughs, which expels a …

Cough has long been implicated in the production of infectious aerosol leading to
transmission of tuberculosis (TB). However, prevalence studies frequently identify …

Objective: The anatomy and neurophysiology of cough has been reviewed in the preceding
section. The objective of this section is to describe how the varied anatomic components of …

Sir Patrick: Don't misunderstand me, my boy, I'm not belittling your discovery. Most
discoveries are made regularly every fifteen years; and it's fully a hundred and fifty since …

Bronchial diseases are characterised by the weak efficiency of mucus transport through the
lower airways, leading in some cases to the muco-obstruction of bronchi. It has been …

Objective The aim of the present study was to investigate the efficacy of two frequently used
physiotherapies (PTs) for the removal of bronchial secretions in cystic fibrosis (CF) lung …