News – HESW Respiratory

ARCPs

Reminder for ARCP dates:

Respiratory – 24/05/2021 (deadline for all documents- 10/05/2021)

GIM- 26/05/2021 (deadline for all documents- 12/05/2021)

Don’t forget to complete your Form R!

ARCP and COVID-19 guidance:

https://www.jrcptb.org.uk/covid-19

Save the Dates

Respiratory training days – proposed dates:

29^th/30^th April – Gloucester and Cheltenham

24^th/25^th May

15^th/16^th July

4^th/5^th Oct

6^th/7^th Dec

Steroid-refractory/resistant pneumonitis

https://jitc.bmj.com/content/jitc/9/2/e001884.full.pdf

BTS COVID Webninars

Weekly webninars by PHOSP-COVID research team.

Link below:

https://www.brit-thoracic.org.uk/research-and-innovation/phosp-covid/

British Thoracic Society Training Standards for Thoracic Ultrasound (TUS)

For those who haven’t seen the new updates!

bts-training-standards-for-thoracic-ultrasound Download

COVID-19 Pneumonia follow-up

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BTS Guidelines: Follow up guide post COVID-19 Pneumonia:

Resp follow up guidance post covid pneumonia

There are also some more useful COVID-19 specific guidelines on the BTS website https://brit-thoracic.org.uk/about-us/covid-19-information-for-the-respiratory-community/#bts-guidance-on-venous-thromboembolic-disease-in-patients-with-covid-19

BTS guideline for the use of long-term macrolides in adults with respiratory disease

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BTS Long term macrolide use

NOT COVID-19 but the ‘Rapid development of bullous lung disease: a complication of electronic cigarette use’

Paper:

rapid development of bullous disease – e-cig

COVID-19 Government information: Guide for health professionals

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https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/wuhan-novel-coronavirus

The Wessex Respiratory SCE Revision Course

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