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Congratulations to the ED sims team who won- we are very pleased to be runners up in the UHL Innovation in Education and Training award. Congratulations to BTS 💙 who won the most inspiring role model and Darren Reed winner of outstanding contribution to teaching UHL Renal Respiratory Cardiovascular

The recent problems in accessing Covid-19 tests has affected several of our team members recently. This paper adds detail to a neat idea that we’ve also been discussing.

Roughly 1% of patients admitted with COVID-19 develop pneumothorax. This can occur without pre-existing lung disease or mechanical ventilation. Two thirds of patients survive, but age >70 years and acidosis are associated with poor prognosis.

⁦#GlenfieldRespTalks Ire Valero-Sánchez⁩ does arguably most important job in the Dept: Integrated Care lead. Updating on developments to provide rapid expert response pre-hospital - clinic referral QC & feedback. Development of SDEC. COPD piloting the approaches. Strong MDT!

Latest paper from RECOVERY trial: In patients admitted to hospital with COVID-19, lopinavir–ritonavir did not reduce 28-day mortality, duration of hospital stay, or risk of progressing to invasive mechanical ventilation or death. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Well done Sarah Diver and team!

Radiology case of the week - Bronchial atresia: focal obliteration of the proximal segment of LLL bronchus & hyperinflation of the distal lung presenting as SOB & recurrent infection. Consider foreign body as differential diagnosis; surgical resection may be indicated.

Chris Barber Respiratory Medicine STH providing #GlenfieldRespTalks with a super-accessible hit of Occupational Lung Disease updates today

Excellent opportunity to come and join us in Leicester!

During Covid we’ve used non invasive support ventilation in wider groups of patients than ever before. This paper suggests we should be doing this now in acute severe asthma too. Not an RCT but interesting findings in large cohort study atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.116…

Another excellent virtual journal club

Very proud of the team in Leicester, everyone working incredibly hard UHL Renal Respiratory Cardiovascular Sarah Diver @Wadster_ Richard Russell Leicester VERTICAL respiratory education

Interesting discussion on acutely ill Covid patients #RCPmed2021 current consensus is for intermediate intensity VTE prophylaxis not full dose but firm evidence lacking

Phenomenal effort and very proud of everyone on the team in Leicester for their contribution

Important news- convalescent plasma futile in severe COVID #disappointing Trials in less severe patients to continue Such a shame after recent positive data published in NEJM