John White, James Paton, Robert Niven, Hilary Pinnock On behalf of the British Thoracic Society The British Thoracic Society first produced a guideline on asthma and its management in 1990. The first collaborative guideline with the Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network (SIGN) using evidence-based medicine methodology was published in 2003 (1). It has since become a […]
Tag: BTS
IVOST-ing, and Mycoplasma
The verbalising of nouns is an insidious threat to modern civilisation, some would have us believe. Things are ‘actioned’, when the already existing verb, ‘to do’, would seem perfectly suitable. Adjectives seem to be replacing adverbs: the triathlon magazines I read each month promise to tell me how to ‘run fast’, or how to descend […]
What’s Pneumonia Anyway?
This afternoon a patient on the ward asked me “So do I have pneumonia then?”. Not a straightforward answer. She has a productive cough, crackles in her left base, a WCC of 24, CRP of 140, and presented with a lactate of 3.4, and a bicarbonate of 14. And a normal CXR. SIRS? Yes. Sepsis? […]
COPD, Me and the GMC
This blog has been fallow for some time, for which I can only apologise, and push on. The main reason behind the paucity of musing has been that I’ve been investigated by the GMC. That may cause a slight intake of breath from you, but it caused a lot more when I found out 5 […]