Respiratory

e-Learning | COPD diagnosis and management

This is an updated guideline from NICE on the diagnosis and management of COPD, published in Dec 18. It's a pretty mammoth guideline, first written in 2004. There is a useful flow chart on management....

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Bronchial thermoplasty for severe asthma

This is a new guideline on bronchial thermoplasty from NICE on bronchial thermoplasty for severe asthma. NICE advise that it can be used. This procedure reduces the smooth muscle mass lining th...

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Diagnosing and managing cystic fibrosis

This is a new guideline from NICE on diagnosing and managing cystic fibrosis. Most of this guideline will be much more relevant to secondary care, so I'm just covering the list of possible presentatio...

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Nice | Tuberculosis (TB)

This is an updated guideline from NICE on managing tuberculosis. I guess the relevance will be largely related to where you work. There isn't any really big change here, but there are lots of things t...

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Nice | Bronchiolitis in children

This is a new guideline from Nice on diagnosing and managing bronchiolitis. It really doesn't add much new as it mainly lays out criteria for referral and this is just around recognition of a sick chi...

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Wheeze in preschool children

A very common condition, affecting 25% of infants before the age of 18 months, and one which we will see a lot of over the forthcoming months. This helpful BMJ Review summarises the evidence on the ma...

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Nice | Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

This guideline is mainly useful to us in terms of when to consider Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis , but there was some information in here that I was not aware of that is important. When to consider Id...

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Omalizumab in severe allergic asthma

This guideline advises that Omalizumab can be used in the treatment of asthma. It is a monoclonal antibody that binds to IgE and is given every 2 to 4 weeks subcut. We may start seeing patients treate...

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Whooping Cough – HPA Guidance

Bordetella Pertussis from Sanofi Pasteur (flikr website) This is a summary of guidance from the HPA on how to manage Whooping Cough. A member forwarded this on to me and requested I pass on the inform...

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Air travel with a respiratory disorder

This is a long guideline. It is mainly going to be useful if a patient asks specifically about air travel, but it may be something that should be raised with some patients at their annual reviews. It ...

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Nice | Tuberculosis

This is quite a complex, meaty guideline, with lots of flow-charts. Remember to consider if a newly registering patient should be screened and remember BCG in neonates at risk, but otherwise I would s...

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