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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: Update on diagnosis and management of Pneumothorax 2025 (Part 2)
Irish Thoracic Society Podcast Productions
24 minutes
9 months ago
Breathwork: Update on diagnosis and management of Pneumothorax 2025 (Part 2)
This week we speak again to Dr Deirdre Fitzgerald on pneumothorax. We cover it all; the typical presentation, the diagnosis, categories of pneumothorax and management updates in the last 12 months. We discuss trends in the field of pleural disease and what to expect with respect to
changes in guidelines in the coming years.
Chapters
00.45 Introduction
01.00 Rapid fire round
01.50 Diagnosis of pneumothorax
02.30 Tests to do at presentation/ prior to referral
05.25 Initial management; does the size of the pneumothorax matter?
08.00 Conservative management of pneumothorax; the evidence
09.00 Medical management of pneumothorax
12.18 Chest drain specifics
15.28 Suction; the evidence
17.03 Removing the chest drain
17.38 Surgical management
19.08 Post pneumothorax guidance
21.23 Pitfalls in management of pneumothorax
22.28 Recent breakthroughs in pneumothorax management
Show notes
ERS 2024 guidelines on spontaneous pneumothorax https://publications.ersnet.org/content/erj/63/5/2300797
High flow oxygen papers https://www.bmj.com/content/4/5779/86,
https://karger.com/res/article-abstract/44/2/147/286426/Noninvasive-Treatment-of Pneumothorax-with-Oxygen?redirectedFrom=fulltext
BTS pleural guidelines 2023 https://thorax.bmj.com/content/78/11/1143
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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