Bronchoscopist's perception of the quality of the single-use bronchoscope (Ambu aScope4™) in selected bronchoscopies: a multicenter study in 21 Spanish pulmonology services.

Background: The disposable bronchoscope is an excellent alternative to face the problem of SARS-CoV-2 and other cross infections, but the bronchoscopist's perception of its quality has not been evaluated.

Methods: To evaluate the quality of the Ambu-aScope4 disposable bronchoscope, we carried out a cross-sectional study in 21 Spanish pulmonology services. We use a standardized questionnaire completed by the bronchoscopists at the end of each bronchoscopy.

[Do COPD patients lie about their smoking habit?].

Objective: To determine the deception rate or concordance between the interview on smoking and cooximetry in COPD patients from a monographic consultation.

Design: Prospective observational study to evaluate the concordance between the values of cooximetry and the response to a clinical interview on smoking.

Setting: COPD monographic consultation, Pneumology, Seville.

Anxiety, depression and tobacco abstinence.

Unlabelled: There is evidence of the relationship between mental illness and smoking and increased risk of depressive episodes after quitting smoking, even with specific treatments for abstinence.

Objective: To assess the influence of a cessation program on the emotional state of patients by measuring levels of anxiety / depression and differences depending on the presence of psychiatric history.

Method: A prospective observational study of patients taking part in a combined program (pharmacological and cognitive-behavioral) for giving up smoking.

[Blood uric acid levels in patients with sleep-disordered breathing].

Objective: Recurrent hypoxia associated with sleep apnea-hypopnea syndrome (SAHS) leads to an increase in the degradation of adenosine triphosphatase to xanthine and, secondarily, to an increase in uric acid concentrations. The aim of the present study was to determine whether there is a correlation between uric acid levels in peripheral blood and sleep-disordered breathing, independently of known confounding factors.

Patients And Methods: We carried out a retrospective cross-sectional study of 1135 patients evaluated for suspected SAHS.