We’ve got a fantastic 🌟Pleural Nursing Team 🫁🌟👌at Leicester's Hospitals - well done Faye & Sarah Johnstone #UHLAwards24

🧵 (6/?) lower pressure drainage via digital drainage device provides lower pain in patients having issues with pain during drainage. Looking forward to the AESOP trial to give even more data to this important topic. Thisarana Wijayaratne Rakesh K Panchal #UKPleura #UKPS #Pleural

Great catching up with Glenfield Leicester's Hospitals Pleural/Interventional Pulmonology 🫁 Fellows & SpRs past & present and now Consultant colleagues at #BTSWinter2024 Abe Baguneid Thisarana Wijayaratne Zaw Aung Asfandyar Yousuf Syed Mohammad Darren Reed

#BTSWinter2024 ESPB Block 💉🫁 anaesthesia during med thoracoscopy 🔭 shows a signal in reducing biopsy related pain. Thisarana Wijayaratne Manju Berly Sameer Hanna-Jumma Hakeem Yusuff Syed Mohammad @mazan1981 UK Pleural Society Syed Ajmal Rajini Sudhir Sarah Johnstone

Passio digital drainage device💧using lower pressures & speeds demonstrates a ⬇️ in pain during IPC drainage in NEL/trapped lung 🫁 #BTSWinter2024 - results of AESOP RCT awaited Thisarana Wijayaratne Sarah Johnstone Faye Hinchcliffe Manju Berly Rajini Sudhir Syed Mohammad

Deep sedation bronchoscopy 💤💊🔭 with Target-Controlled Sedation (TCS) 🎯& High Flow Nasal Oxygen (HFNO)👃0️⃣2️⃣ using the Airvo-2 circuit can be safely👷performed in the endoscopy suite & provides an alternative to GA @ThiaranaW Leicester's Hospitals #BTSWinter2024

Virtual Reality Headsets 🥽👾🫁may have a role in alleviating pain & anxiety 😩during pleural procedures 🫁💉Thisarana Wijayaratne Sarah Johnstone GH Ward29 Leicester's Hospitals Research at Leicester's Hospitals #BTSWinter2024

Sarah Johnstone: role of the pleural CNS 🔺Poor pleural services in 2021 BTS report 🔺 70% hospitals do not have pleural CNS 🟢 V impressive core skills, inc. IPC insertion & management ✅ Essential for optimal patient care 🫵 Do you have one?

Sarah Johnstone eloquently reinforces the importance of a pleural specialist nurse in the #mesothelioma pathway. #btogupdate24

Well done to Sarah Johnstone BTOG - one of the early pioneers Leicester's Hospitals of the important Pleural Nurse Specialist Role 🫁💧🩻 UK Pleural Society British Thoracic Society (BTS) ARNS #mesoupdate24

It’s that time of year 🎄🗓️ advertising our popular🌟🚨Interventional Pulmonology/Pleural Fellow post🌟🚨🫁 Leicester's Hospitals 🏥, start August 2025; 👉 jobs.nhs.uk/candidate/joba… UK Pleural Society Pleural Research Day British Thoracic Society (BTS) BTOG INSPIREresp Trachea Network Respiratory Futures

Feasibility and effectiveness of the Passio™ digital drainage system in reducing chest pain during IPC pleural drainage #PassioIPC #Respiratory thorax.bmj.com/content/79/Sup… Thisarana Wijayaratne Rakesh K Panchal Sarah Johnstone GH Ward29

CryoEBUS❄️🫁game-changing tool in the EBUS armoury in lymphoma & granuloma disorders & can easily be done by experienced 🇬🇧 EBUS hospitals ⬇️ conscious sedation - Leicester's Hospitals hosted the UK’s first dedicated CryoEBUS course - thanks to Miguel Ariza Prota for the talks

We are one of the first hospitals in the country to use a new procedure to obtain lymph node samples during an endobronchial ultrasound. UHL's Dr Rakesh Panchal hosted the country’s first dedicated training course on the procedure at the Glenfield Hospital.

Article: Evolution of the IPC 🫁: evidence based review & managment algorithm link.springer.com/content/pdf/10… Pulmonary Therapy UK Pleural Society

Perspectives on a Clinical Pleural 🫁 Fellowship at Leicester's Hospitals by Thisarana Wijayaratne UK Pleural Society podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/epi…