Can Only Plan Daily - COPD is a serious disease needing the right diagnosis and treatment with the person’s need sitting front and centre.
Taxonomy: Archive, Asthma, COPD, PCRU, Respiratory tests and investigations, Tobacco smoking and nicotine, 1 hour
Taxonomy: COVID-19, Current, Infection, PCRU, Respiratory tests and investigations, Tobacco smoking and nicotine, Winter Wrapped, 1 hour
This 'Get Winter Wrapped' issue focuses on the twin challenges of winter pressures and coping with COVID-19.
Taxonomy: COPD, COVID-19, Current, Member - Premium Group, Member - Premium Lead, Podcasts, Respiratory tests and investigations, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Dr Steve Holmes and Jane Scullion discuss the challenges of diagnosing COPD in the aftermath of the COVID pandemic.They explore how can we best pick up those patients who have developed COPD, should we be using spirometry?Grab a coffee, put your feet up and listen in.
Taxonomy: Allergy, Asthma, Current, PCRU, Respiratory tests and investigations
This edition of PCRU features guest editor Nicola Strandring-Brown, a primary care nurse working in South Yorkshire and PCRS Committee Member.
Originally presented at the PCRS Respiratory Conference 2021 Gillian Austin presents on "What is Disordered Breathing and How Do You Deal with It?"
Originally presented at the PCRS Respiratory Conference 2021 Dominika Froehlich-Jeziorek presents on "Conducting Virtual Respiratory Reviews in Primary Care and Community"
Originally presented at the PCRS Respiratory Conference 2021 Dr Stephen Gaduzo presents on "How to Spot Interstitial Lung Disease - And What to Do When You Suspect ILD"
Originally presented at the PCRS Respiratory Conference 2021 Jon Bennett and Ren Lawlor present on "Acute Presentation of Respiratory Symptoms in Adults"
Taxonomy: Asthma, Clinical resource or information, Current, Respiratory tests and investigations, 30 minutes, Commercial organisation produced
In this article produced for Practice Nurse, author, PCRS Chair, Carol Stonham, describes FeNO testing and its role in diagnosing respiratory disease. She discusses the advantages and limitations of this test.
Taxonomy: Allergy, Asthma, Peer Support Network information, Respiratory tests and investigations, Videos / Webinars, 1 hour
Originally presented at the PCRS Respiratory Conference 2020 Dr Glenis Scadding presents One airway: if they're wheezing, are they sneezing too?
Originally presented at the PCRS Respiratory Conference 2020 Frances Barrett presents on "How to assess the acutely breathless patient - making sure we don't miss anything"
Taxonomy: Archive, COPD, COVID-19, Greener Healthcare, Infection, PCRU, Respiratory tests and investigations, PCRS Produced / Collaboration, 1 hour
Taxonomy: Archive, Clinical resource or information, COVID-19, PCRS Position Statement, Respiratory tests and investigations, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Spirometry, a test used to measure and monitor lung function, is an important component of the diagnosis, management and monitoring of respiratory conditions in primary care.
Taxonomy: Archive, Clinical resource or information, PCRU, Respiratory tests and investigations, Standard, Winter Wrapped, 30 minutes, PCRS Produced / Collaboration
Peak flow charting and microspirometry are undervalued in guidelines and were underused in primary care even before the COVID pandemic, but have enhanced importance now given the difficulties with access to more formal respiratory function testing.