Publications by authors named "Sudhir Chaudhri"
Pleural effusion is a common problem in our country, and most of these patients need invasive tests as they can't be evaluated by blood tests alone. The simplest of them is diagnostic pleural aspiration, and diagnostic techniques such as medical thoracoscopy are being performed more frequently than ever before. However, most physicians in India treat pleural effusion empirically, leading to delays in diagnosis, misdiagnosis and complications from wrong treatments.
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- Interstitial lung disease (ILD) is a diverse group of lung disorders, and updated clinical practice guidelines (CPG) are needed for managing ILD beyond idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF).
- A multidisciplinary group of experts conducted a systematic review of existing literature to create consensus statements based on clinically relevant questions and a modified GRADE approach to evaluate the evidence.
- The resulting guidelines highlight the limitations of available evidence, which was generally of low quality, but aim to assist clinicians in understanding and managing various types of interstitial pneumonias effectively.
Unlabelled: Bronchial thermoplasty (BT) is an interventional bronchoscopic treatment for severe asthma. There is a need to define patient selection criteria to guide clinicians in offering the appropriate treatment options to patients with severe asthma.
Methodology: An expert group formed this statement under the aegis of the Indian Chest Society.
Background: Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) patients frequently pose difficulty in weaning from invasive mechanical ventilation (MV). Prolonged invasive ventilation brings along various complications. Non-invasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV) is proposed to be a useful weaning modality in such cases.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Noninvasive mechanical ventilation (NIMV) is the delivery of positive pressure ventilation through an interface to upper airways without using the invasive airway. Use of NIMV is becoming common with the increasing recognition of its benefits.
Objectives: This study was done to evaluate the feasibility and outcome of NIMV in tertiary care centres.