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Volume 20, Number 1 |
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| Oxygen therapy in acute exacerbations of COPD |
Alan Fletcher MRCP FFAEM Specialist Registrar in Emergency Medicine and General Medicine, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield |
Most of us can recall a teaching session as an undergraduate or junior doctor in which the danger of oxygen for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) was explained in gripping fashion. Suddenly, the gas that we considered life-saving was revealed as a potential sinister killer. |
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| Diving and lung disease – principles and implications |
Graeme P Currie MD DCH MRCP Specialist Registrar in Respiratory Medicine, Aberdeen Royal Infirmary, Aberdeen; David J Godden MD FRCPE FRCPG Director, Highlands and Islands Health Research Institute, University of Aberdeen, Inverness |
Underwater diving as a recreational pursuit is becoming increasingly popular. Medical practitioners may face requests to evaluate and treat frequently encountered diving-related illness and injury and to advise on aspects of fitness to dive. |
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| Respiratory epidemics: a review of 2004 |
Philip Ind, Editor |
2004 is a year of respiratory epidemics and the impact of respiratory disease on the nation’s health is detailed in Lung Report III – Casting a shadow over the nation’s health1 from the British Lung Foundation; it is all about epidemics. |
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| New developments with Streptococcus pneumoniae |
Jim Catterall BSc MD FRCP Consultant Physician, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol |
Most cases of community-acquired pneumonia are caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae. Bacteraemic pneumococcal pneumonia still has a mortality rate of 7–35%. |
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| Imaging in the diagnosis of pulmonary thromboembolism – current perspectives |
Edwin JR van Beek MD PhD FRCR Reader in Radiology/Honorary Consultant in Radiology; Eleanor Lorenz MB ChB FRCR Consultant Radiologist, Unit of Academic Radiology and Department of Radiology, Royal Hallamshire Hospital, Sheffield |
Pulmonary embolism is now recognised as part of the spectrum of venous thromboembolic disorders. Pulmonary thromboembolism (PE) is a major cause of morbidity and mortality, with an annual incidence in the Western world around 0.5 per 1,000.1 |
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