There are many age-associated changes in the respiratory and pulmonary immune system.
These changes include decreases in the volume of the thoracic cavity, reduced lung …

The purpose of this state-of-the-art review is to update the American College of Chest
Physicians 2006 guideline on global physiology and pathophysiology of cough. A review of …

Objective To determine the effect of expiratory muscle strength training (EMST) on both
cough and swallow function in stroke patients. Design Prospective pre-post intervention trial …

Background Disordered swallowing, or dysphagia, is almost always present to some degree
in people with Parkinson's disease (PD), either causing aspiration or greatly increasing the …

Deficits of airway protection can have deleterious effects to health and quality of life.
Effective airway protection requires a continuum of behaviors including swallowing and …

Purpose: Airway protective deficits (swallowing and cough) greatly reduce health and quality
of life and are a pervasive consequence of neurodegenerative movement disorders …

In the case of airborne diseases, pathogen copies are transmitted by droplets of respiratory
tract fluid that are exhaled by the infectious that stay suspended in the air for some time and …

Patients with Parkinson's disease (PD) have progressive and pervasive disorders of airway
protection. Recent work has highlighted the relationship between reflex and voluntary cough …

Purpose: Voluntary cough dysfunction is highly prevalent across multiple patient
populations. Voluntary cough has been utilized as a screening tool for swallowing safety …

The transmission of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has presented challenges for the
control of the indoor environment of isolation wards. Scientific air distribution design and …