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Harnessing AI in critical care: opportunities, challenges and key steps for success
Background The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into critical care offers significant potential to enhance early ...
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P171 Evaluation of a biomarker-led rapid access review clinic to support steroid stewardship in patients with asthma
Background Exacerbations of respiratory conditions including asthma are amongst the most common causes of emergency hospital attendances, but numerous pulmonary and extra-pulmonary comorbidities can ...
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P139 Assessing smoking status documentation and nicotine replacement therapy prescribing on the acute admissions ward
Background Tobacco smoking is a leading behavioural risk factor for death in the UK, contributing to deaths from cardiovascular disease, chronic respiratory diseases and common infectious diseases. 1 ...
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Epigenome-wide association study of lung cancer among never smokers in two prospective cohorts in Shanghai, China
Background The aetiology of lung cancer among individuals who never smoked remains elusive, despite 15% of lung cancer cases in men and 53% in women worldwide being unrelated to smoking. Epigenetic ...
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Guidelines for the physiotherapy management of the adult, medical, spontaneously breathing patient
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Relationship between heart failure and the risk of acute exacerbation of COPD
3 National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College London and Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK Correspondence to Professor Jennifer K Quint, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College ...
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The clinical spectrum of pulmonary aspergillosis
The National Aspergillosis Centre, University Hospital of South Manchester, The University of Manchester, Manchester Academic Health Science Centre, Manchester, UK Correspondence to Dr Chris Kosmidis, ...
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Association of time spent on social media with youth cigarette smoking and e-cigarette use in the UK: a national longitudinal study
Background Social media may influence children and young people’s health behaviour, including cigarette and e-cigarette use. Methods We analysed data from participants aged 10–25 years in the UK ...
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Derivation of a prototype asthma attack risk scale centred on blood eosinophils and exhaled nitric oxide
Reduction of the risk of asthma attacks is a major goal of current asthma management. We propose to derive a risk scale predicting asthma attacks based on the blood eosinophil count and exhaled nitric ...
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Congenital intrapericardial aneurysms of the left atrium.
A patient with congenital intrapericardial aneurysm/diverticulum of the left atrium diagnosed preoperatively is described. A review of the 16 previously reported cases revealed that the majority of ...
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P261 Presentation and recovery from pulmonary exacerbations in cystic fibrosis and comparison of those with and without CFTR modulators
Objectives Recent falls in CF admissions have been attributed to reduced exacerbations (PEx) in patients on CFTR modulators. We aimed to understand how these have affected the presentation and course ...
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SZ alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency and pulmonary disease: more like MZ, not like ZZ
Correspondence to Tomás P Carroll, Alpha-1 Foundation Ireland, Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland, Dublin, Ireland; tcarroll{at}rcsi.ie The ZZ genotype of alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency (AATD) is ...