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P148 Reducing 30-day readmissions through the establishment of a Post Discharge Virtual ward for patients admitted with an exacerbation of COPD
Aims and Objectives An Integrated Respiratory Team (IRT) was established as a service innovation pilot project to improve outcomes for patients with COPD. As part of the IRT pilot, a Virtual ward for ...
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Salmeterol in paediatric asthma
Dr A Bush, Department of Paediatric Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, Sydney Street, London SW3 6NP, UK email:a.bush{at}rbh.nthames.nhs.uk BACKGROUND The addition of long acting inhaled β ...
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P223 ‘I never felt like this before’ clinical presentations of patients referred to a tertiary airways service following Covid-19 infection
Introduction Laryngeal dysfunction can present as a spectrum of clinical presentations, including Inducible laryngeal obstruction (ILO) and/or Chronic Cough (CC). ILO and CC can occur following an ...
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Spontaneous pneumothorax: the sharp rib syndrome.
Of 49 patients undergoing operation for benign spontaneous pneumothorax, 28 (57%) were found to have a sharp first or second rib. In a series of 100 patients undergoing thoracotomy for other ...
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Neural respiratory drive in obesity
Background: The load imposed on ventilation by increased body mass contributes to the respiratory symptoms caused by obesity. A study was conducted to quantify ventilatory load and respiratory drive ...
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Reactivation of tuberculosis and vitamin D deficiency: the contribution of diet and exposure to sunlight
Department of Chemical Pathology, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust, London, UK Dr Heather Milburn, Chest Clinic, Guy’s Hospital, St Thomas’ Street, London SE1 9RT, UK; heather.milburn{at}gstt.nhs ...
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Increased neutrophils and cytokines, TNF-α and IL-8, in induced sputum of non-asthmatic patients with chronic dry cough
Department of Thoracic Medicine, National Heart and Lung Institute, Imperial College School of Medicine & Royal Brompton Hospital, London SW3 6LY, UK Professor K F Chung. METHODS A study was ...
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Postoperative pulmonary complications following thoracic surgery: are there any modifiable risk factors?
2 Department of Pulmonary and Cardiac Rehabilitation, Coventry University, School of Health and Life Sciences, Coventry, UK 3 Clinical Trials Unit, Warwick Medical School, The University of Warwick, ...
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A structural and metabolic framework for classifying pre-clinical tuberculosis infection phenotypes using 18F-FDG PET-CT: a prospective cohort analysis following M. tuberculosis exposure ...
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Induced sputum in the diagnosis of childhood community-acquired pneumonia
Background: The usefulness of induced sputum in searching for causative agents of pneumonia in children has not been studied. Methods: The study involved 101 children, aged 6 months to 15 years, ...
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Statins and the risk of interstitial lung disease: a cohort study
3 Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, Lady Davis Institute for Medical Research, Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Correspondence to Dr Pierre Ernst, Centre for Clinical Epidemiology, ...