Background: The 1997 BTS/RCP national audit of acute chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) in terms of process of care has previously been reported. This paper describes from the same cases the ...

The epidemiology of exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is reviewed with particular reference to the definition, frequency, time course, natural history and seasonality, and ...

A 64-year-old male retired firefighter and never-smoker presented to the ventilation team with a 6-month history of ...

Associations of pulmonary microvascular blood volume with per cent emphysema and CT emphysema subtypes in the community: the MESA Lung study ...

BACKGROUND In acute asthma the optimal duration of treatment with combination β agonist and anticholinergic nebuliser solutions is unknown; most studies have investigated single doses or treatment for ...

Department of Physiological Medicine, St George’s Hospital Medical School, London SW17 0RE, UK Correspondence to: Ms S Spencer, Department of Physiological Medicine, St George’s Hospital Medical ...

5 Department of Respiratory Medicine, The Children's Hospital at Westmead, Australia 6 The Children's Hospital at Westmead Clinical School, Discipline of Paediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of ...

Correspondence to Dr Charlotte Summers, Division of Anaesthesia, Department of Medicine, Box 93, Level 4, Addenbrooke's Hospital, CUHNHSFT, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 OQQ, UK; ...

We present the case of a 45-year-old man who reported 2 years of cough and expectoration and 1 year of dyspnoea. He had a ...

4 Members of the British Paediatric Respiratory Society Empyema Study Group: A Bush and M Rosenthal, Royal Brompton and Harefield NHS Trust, London; T Edmunds, Sick Children's NHS Trust Edinburgh; W ...