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What agents do you utilize for mucociliary clearance during the index hospitalization of patients post lung transplant?

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Pulmonology · University of Colorado School of Medicine

Early post-operatively bronchoscopy is the mainstay for the removal of secretions which may be quite thick and obstructive related to the sloughing of pseudomembranes (ischemic epithelium). We will transition from bronchoscopy to hypertonic saline (3% or 5%) nebulized BID with bronchodilators prior ...

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