FFS: COPD
COPD is a chronic respiratory disease with irreversible airflow limitation, often due to smoking, marked by exacerbations needing oxygen and ventilatory support.
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FFS: Asthma
Asthma is a chronic disease with acute, potentially fatal exacerbations. ED care hinges on severity assessment, rapid bronchodilation, and appropriate escalation.
Network Five: Practice Changes In Paediatric Wheeze Management
Network Five Emergency Medicine Journal Club Episode 30 reviewing updates on paediatric wheeze management with paediatric respiratory and sleep specialist Dr Chetan Pandit!
AMAX4 Algorithm
AMAX4 is a best-practice algorithm for critical care clinicians in anaphylaxis and asthma resuscitation.
Severe asthma management
Haney Mallemat recounts a story of an asthmatic who minutes after he was intubated, became bradycardic, hypertensive and coded.
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 324
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 324 - Just when you thought your brain could unwind the medical trivia FFFF
Susan C. Dees
Susan C. Dees (1909 - 2001) was an American pediatrician. First female division chief and first full professor at Duke Medical Center
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 300
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 300
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 276
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 276
Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 270
It's Friday. Boggle your brain with FFFF challenge and some old fashioned trivia. Funtabulously Frivolous Friday Five 270
Paediatric Asthma
See RCH Melbourne Guidelines:
Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) and asthma
Non-invasive ventilation (NIV) is widely used for severe asthma in Australasia yet remains a controversial topic