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.
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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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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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Breathwork: Asthma Biologic Therapies with Mr. Stephen Shelly (Part 2)
Irish Thoracic Society Podcast Productions
33 minutes
5 months ago
Breathwork: Asthma Biologic Therapies with Mr. Stephen Shelly (Part 2)
Description
This week we speak to Mr Stephen Shelly again about the exciting but sometimes mysterious world of asthma biologics. We speak about the different biologics, going about getting approval to start an asthma biologic, training, and treatment response.
We speak about the potential impact that asthma biologics are going to have on the future of asthma (and hopefully COPD!), the cost benefit analysis and the limitations of these new wonder drugs.
Chapters
0.42min Intro to Biologics
1.00min Rapid fire round
1.52min Severe asthma & biologic eligibility
3.50min Available biologics
6.50min Which biologic?
7.30min Journey to asthma biologic
13.55min Asthma biologic administration
15.30min Monitoring while on asthma biologic
16.40min Training for asthma biologic admin at home
18.50min Assessing treatment response
21:10min Patient expectations
24:50min Are inhalers still needed?
26:12min Pitfalls in treatment with asthma biologics
28:54min Cost-benefit analysis
31.30min Take-home points
Show notes
Dupilumab https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa1804092
Mepolizumab https://www.nejm.org/doi/10.1056/NEJMoa1403290
Omalizumab https://www.jacionline.org/article/S0091-6749(01)65945-1/fulltext
Benralizumab https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(16)31322-8/abstractTezepelumab
https://doi.org/10.1164/rccm.202210-2005OC
Difficult to treat asthma (GINA) https://ginasthma.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/11/GINA-Severe-Asthma-Guide-2024-WEB-WMS.pdf
Asthma compliance programmes Ireland https://www.rcsi.com/dublin/research-and-innovation/innovation/investors-entrepreneurs-and-spin-outs/phyxiom
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.
Social Media
Website: https://irishthoracicsociety.com/
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