Respiratory

e-learning – Long term macrolide use in respiratory conditions

This is a new guideline from BTS, which outlines how to safely prescribe long term macrolide therapy in respiratory conditions. It was published in April 2020. Most of the time, long term macrolide th...

NICE first published guidance on pneumonia in 2014, and updated 2019. At that time there was a push to use the CRB65 score in general practice and also CRP as an aid to deciding on when to use antibio...

This is a new guideline from NICE on when to prescribe antibiotics in an acute exacerbation. It was published in Dec 18. It should be read alongside their updated guideline on COPD. The most interesti...

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....

This is a new guideline from NICE on when to prescribe antibiotics for coughs. It only covers those with acute coughs and doesn't include COPD patients (they are covered in a separate guideline). I w...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Respiratory

e-learning – Long term macrolide use in respiratory conditions

e-learning | Diagnosis and management of pneumonia

e-Learning | COPD – antibiotic prescribing in an acute exacerbation

e-Learning | COPD diagnosis and management

e-Learning | Coughs (of the acute kind) and antimicrobial prescribing

Bronchial thermoplasty for severe asthma

Diagnosing and managing cystic fibrosis

Nice | Tuberculosis (TB)

Nice | Bronchiolitis in children

Wheeze in preschool children

Nice | Exhaled nitric oxide measurement in asthma

Nice | Rivaroxaban for treating PE and preventing recurrent embolism

Nice | Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis

Omalizumab in severe allergic asthma

Whooping Cough – HPA Guidance

Air travel with a respiratory disorder

Nice | Tuberculosis

Thriving as a GP locum

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