tailieunhanh - Báo cáo y học: "Childhood habit cough treated with consultation by telephone: a case report"

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: Childhood habit cough treated with consultation by telephone: a case report. | Cough BioMed Central Open Access Case report Childhood habit cough treated with consultation by telephone a case report Ran D Anbar Address Department of Pediatrics State University of New York Upstate Medical University Syracuse NY USA Email Ran D Anbar - anbarr@ Published 21 January 2009 Received 12 October 2008 Cough 2009 5 2 dOi l745-9974-5-2 Accepted 21 January 2009 This article is available from http content 5 1 2 2009 Anbar 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 Childhood habit cough has been treated successfully by making suggestions that it can be stopped desensitization techniques use of distractors provision of rewards and selfhypnosis. All of these techniques have involved personal contact between a health care provider and a patient. Case presentation A 5-year-old with cystic fibrosis was diagnosed with habit cough following evaluation by a pediatric pulmonologist and otolaryngologist. An expert in the treatment of habit cough provided instruction by telephone to the patient s mother regarding use of hypnotic techniques in this setting which was associated with resolution of the cough within a week. Conclusion As this report describes a single patient it is possible that his improvement was unrelated to the given advice. Therefore it remains to be seen whether therapy by telephone for habit cough is applicable widely. Background Childhood habit cough has been treated successfully by making suggestions that it can be stopped desensitization techniques use of distractors provision of rewards and self-hypnosis 1 . All of these published techniques have involved personal contact between a health care provider and a patient. This report presents a