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Breath work
A Respiratory Medicine podcast for busy respiratory nerds who want to keep up-to-date with the constantly evolving world of the lung. Every month we speak with respiratory experts on their areas of special interest.
Our goal is to provide YOU with interactive and easy to listen to clinical updates. We will cover presentation, clinical reasoning, diagnostics and treatments but also new and exciting changes coming down the line. Delivered at a time convenient to you in 20-30 minute episodes.
Inspire
Meet your Respiratory Medicine heroes and hear how they got to where they are today. There are now more people than ever working in the respiratory medicine sphere. In this podcast we speak to Physicians, scientists, nurses, physiologists and more. We learn about their career paths to date, how they have achieved such success and advice for others hoping to follow suit. Some of these discussions are profession specific, but much of the advice is applicable to anyone trying to progress in their career.
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Website: https://irishthoracicsociety.com/
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Breathwork - Pleural Effusions with Dr Laura Gleeson (Part 2)
Irish Thoracic Society Podcast Productions
36 minutes
3 months ago
Breathwork - Pleural Effusions with Dr Laura Gleeson (Part 2)
This week, we speak to Dr. Laura Gleeson again—this time about pleural effusions. Our conversation covers all the pleural effusion basics, plus the nuances of radiology, when to insert a chest drain, and how to monitor it once it’s in place.
Chapters:
01:05 – Rapid fire round
04:23 – Pleural effusion intro
05:30 – Symptoms at presentation with pleural effusion
06:40 – Interpreting a white-out on CXR
07:20 – When to do further radiology/imaging
08:35 – CT pre or post chest drain insertion?
10:25 – Light’s criteria – can it always be trusted?
12:00 – What tests to send on your pleural fluid sample
14:15 – Chest drain indications
16:35 – Monitoring your chest drain
21:00 – Flushing the chest drain
22:20 – How much fluid to drain
25:00 – Removing the chest drain
27:10 – Empyema management
30:10 – Fibrinolysis
31:55 – Following up your pleural patients
34:10 – Take-home points
Show notes & resources:
Light’s criteria – MDCalc calculator | CHEST Clinics article
MIST trials – MIST2 – NEJM | MIST3 – ATS Journals
Irish Thoracic Society Podcast Productions
Breath work
A Respiratory Medicine podcast for busy respiratory nerds who want to keep up-to-date with the constantly evolving world of the lung. Every month we speak with respiratory experts on their areas of special interest.
Our goal is to provide YOU with interactive and easy to listen to clinical updates. We will cover presentation, clinical reasoning, diagnostics and treatments but also new and exciting changes coming down the line. Delivered at a time convenient to you in 20-30 minute episodes.
Inspire
Meet your Respiratory Medicine heroes and hear how they got to where they are today. There are now more people than ever working in the respiratory medicine sphere. In this podcast we speak to Physicians, scientists, nurses, physiologists and more. We learn about their career paths to date, how they have achieved such success and advice for others hoping to follow suit. Some of these discussions are profession specific, but much of the advice is applicable to anyone trying to progress in their career.
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