Complication profiles of adult asthmatics requiring paralysis during mechanical ventilation.

Objective: To assess the characteristics and the incidence of morbidity of intubated asthmatic patients who received long-term paralysis.

Design: Retrospective cohort study.

Setting: Five intensive care units (ICUs) in Paris and the surrounding suburbs.

[Evaluation of occupational exposures in lung cancer].

Occupational lung cancers are underestimated by the number of cases compensated in the French National Insurance System. Rules of compensation of occupational diseases were recently modified in France. Therefore a study was conducted on incident cases of lung cancer in a general hospital in the Paris area.