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  • 21Obesity hypoventilation syndrome — Classification and external resources Obesity hypoventilation syndrome often improves with positive airway pressure treatment administered overnight by a machine such as this device ICD 10 …

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  • 22Methacholine challenge test — A methacholine challenge test is a medical test used to assist in the diagnosis of asthma. The patient breathes in nebulized methacholine. This provokes narrowing of the airways (bronchoconstriction). This is detected when the patient performs… …

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  • 23Positive pressure ventilation — Intervention ICD 9 CM 93.90 93.91 Me …

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  • 24Peak flow meter — A peak flow meter is a small, hand held device used to manage asthma by monitoring airflow through the bronchi and thus the degree of obstruction in the airways. FunctionThe peak flow meter measures the patient s maximum ability to exhale, or… …

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  • 25Nuss procedure — X Ray of a 15 year old male after undergoing the procedure The Nuss procedure is a minimally invasive procedure, invented by Dr. Donald Nuss for treating pectus excavatum. He developed it at Children s Hospital of The King s Daughters, in Norfolk …

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  • 26Bronchiolitis obliterans — Not to be confused with Bronchiolitis obliterans organizing pneumonia. Bronchiolitis obliterans Classification and external resources ICD 9 491.8 DiseasesDB …

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  • 27Mohammed Fazle Rabbee — মোহাম্মদ ফজলে রাব্বী Mohammed Fazle Rabbee Born 21 September 1932 Pabna District, Bangladesh Died 15 December 1971 Dhaka, Bangladesh Nationality …

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  • 28Pneumatometry — Pneu ma*tom e*try, n. See {Spirometry}. [1913 Webster] …

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  • 29spirometer — noun Etymology: International Scientific Vocabulary spiro (from Latin spirare to breathe) + meter Date: 1809 an instrument for measuring the air entering and leaving the lungs • spirometric adjective • spirometry noun …

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  • 30Hypoxia (medical) — Hypoxia ICD 9 799.02 MeSH D000860 Hypoxia, or hypoxiation, is a pathological condition in which the body as a whole (generalized hypoxia) or a region of the body (tissue hypoxia) is deprived of adequate ox …

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