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| A specialist that deals with diseases involving the respiratory tract |
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| Congestive heart failure (CHF) |
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| The heart is unable to pump sufficiently to maintain blood flow to meet the body's needs. |
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| Pneumonia is lung inflammation caused by bacterial or viral infection, in which the air sacs known as alveoli fill with pus and may become solid. |
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| A pleural effusion is excess fluid that accumulates in the pleural cavity, the fluid-filled space that surrounds the lungs. |
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| Edema is a condition characterized by an excess of watery fluid collecting in the cavities or tissues of the body. |
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| Every night at bedtime(quaque hora somni) |
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| Anemia is a condition marked by a deficiency of red blood cells or of hemoglobin in the blood, resulting in pallor and weariness. |
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| Crackles are the clicking, rattling, or crackling noises that may be made by one or both lungs of a human with a respiratory disease during inhalation. |
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| Sputum is a mixture of saliva and mucus coughed up from the respiratory tract. |
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| A blood transfusion is the process of transferring the blood of one person into the veins of another. |
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| Activities of daily living |
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| Advance directives are a written statement of a person's wishes regarding medical treatment, often including a living will, made to ensure those wishes are carried out should the person be unable to communicate them to a doctor. |
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