Tuyển tập các báo cáo nghiên cứu về y học được đăng trên tạp chí y học Critical Care giúp cho các bạn có thêm kiến thức về ngành y học đề tài: Acute cough: a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge. | Cough BioMed Central Open Access Acute cough a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge Peter V Dicpinigaitis 1 Gene L Colice2 Mary Jo Goolsby3 Gary I Rogg1 Sheldon L Spector4 and Birgit Winther5 Address 1Albert Einstein College of Medicine and Montefiore Medical Center Bronx NY USA 2George Washington University School of Medicine Washington DC USA 3American Academy of Nurse Practitioners Augusta GA USA 4UCLA School of Medicine Los Angeles CA USA and 5University of Virginia Health System Charlottesville VA USA Email Peter V Dicpinigaitis - pdicpinigaitis@ Gene L Colice - Mary Jo Goolsby - mjgoolsby@ Gary I Rogg - garyrogg@ Sheldon L Spector - spector@ Birgit Winther - bw8b@ Corresponding author Published 16 December 2009 Received 27 September 2009 Cough 2009 5 1 I doi I86 I745-9974-5-II Accepted 16 D m 2009 This article is available from http content 5 I I I 2009 Dicpinigaitis et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Acute cough is one of the most common complaints prompting patient visits to healthcare professionals. Despite the broad repercussions of acute cough on patient quality of life school and work productivity and public health resources research on this condition is minimal as are the available treatment options. Many patients use over-the-counter medicines which are often ineffective for symptom relief. Some therapies may achieve antitussive activity but at the expense of unpleasant or intolerable side effects. Unmet needs When considering the treatments currently available for the management of acute cough the multiple limitations of such treatments are quite apparent. Most of these .
