A couple of years ago I went on the advanced bronchoscopy course Palav Shah runs at the Brompton. I walked away with ideas of starting up a cryotherapy service, and excited about trying out some of the new lung volume reduction coils. I had a tinker with a cryotherapy machine, and hope to have another […]
Month: November 2014
Quicksilver
This case in the NEJM has an amazing CXR, not to mention the fact that the lady in question survived. I suspect that even the elemental mercury is pretty bad for you… […]
The WISDOM of ICS
I was speaking at a local educational meeting in Perth last night, the topic being COPD, as it usually is at the moment. Every month another inhaler is released, another device, another pharma company courting our prescribing pens, another combination of drugs. So when I’m asked to go out to speak to our primary cary […]