Luxfer Gas Cylinders Ltd
Starting oxygen therapy can be a very worrying time, with a few patients even seeing it as a last resort or “the end”. However, there is no doubt that respiratory patients benefit from oxygen therapy and that such therapy improves their quality of life. Every patient is different and their needs are different; however, making oxygen therapy easy and keeping it simple, whilst giving patients flexibility and freedom, is the “Holy Grail” that every practitioner and homecare provider is striving for...
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Frans de Jongh
Today, a world without the internet seems impossible to imagine. The ease with which information can be located and consumed is overwhelming, from abstracts and full text, through to presentations and complete lectures on video sites. Combined with the fact that almost all professions require lifelong learning to remain up to date, electronic media seems to be the preferred method for enabling education in the future...
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Jouke T. Annema, Felix Herth, Stefano Gasparini, Venerino Poletti and Amy Farr
The year 2015 saw the European Respiratory Society (ERS) take a new and exciting step in Congress session innovation with the development of ERS Live Endoscopy day. A first for the ERS, this day demonstrated how using the latest medical techniques in a live session, combined with dedicated organisers, faculty and operators, could create a very special and memorable experience which enriched the 2015 Congress programme...
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Siân Williams, Pippa Powell and Emma Thompson
The damage air pollution can pose to lung health for people with existing lung conditions, the general population and those still in the womb is widely understood amongst the medical community. Awareness amongst the general population is also growing steadily, particularly in high income countries; however, we don’t always focus on the right places...
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Brendan G. Cooper
It is difficult to capture in a single article all the respiratory equipment and devices that have emerged over the last 200 years or so. However, it is possible to create a suggested list of the “top 20 innovations” that have at each stage revolutionised our practice or even initiated whole new areas of respiratory medicine...
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Samantha Prigmore
A “specialist nurse” was described by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in 2014 as a nurse who specialises in a specific condition or treatment pathway, providing patient care, clinical expertise and education, as well as leadership and service development...
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