Job Duties and Tasks for: Landscaping and Groundskeeping Worker. 1) Care for established lawns by mulching, aerating, weeding, grubbing and removing thatch, and trimming and edging around flower beds, walks, and walls.
Treatment of malignant pleural effusion is a complicated algorithm which depends on the longevity of the patient, the cell type and the primary cancer, the control of the tumor in the rest of the body, symptomatic benefit from therapeutic thoracentesis, and other comorbidities including general debility and COPD.
Ultrasound imaging is particularly useful for detecting small effusions or pleural disease of long duration complicated by lung consolidation or pleural loculations. Diagnosis. The diagnosis of MPE is established by demonstrating malignant cells in the pleural fluid or in the pleura itself. All MPEs are exudative. Additional markers for MPE include glucose < 60 mg/dL, pH < 7.20, increased amylase, and the presence of a grossly bloody pleural fluid (RBC count greater than 100,000 per mm3).