Welcome to the Summer 2021 edition of Primary Care Respiratory Update. In this publication, and in keeping with the weather outside, we are providing a focus on climate, Global Warming, and the environment. The balance of good and potential harm that comes with the delivery of respiratory care to…
Primary Care Respiratory Update (PCRU)
Our members' magazine packed with useful features, clinical updates, educational updates, respiratory news and opinion.
Issue
29
Autumn/Winter 2024
Issue contents
- Editorial
- Are you ready for the new asthma guideline?
- Now is the time to make MART moves for asthma
- Tailoring Inhaler Devices
- The Breathing Thinking Functioning Model to Support the Management of Breathles…
- Obesity and its Impact on Respiratory Health and Primary Care
- Vaping (E-cigarettes) and children and young people
- PCRS Respiratory Conference 2024: Highlights, Insights, and New Perspectives
- PCRS News round-up
ISSUE 21
This 'Get Winter Wrapped' issue focuses on the twin challenges of winter pressures and coping with COVID-19.
ISSUE 20
Asthma Guidelines in Practice – A PCRS Consensus is a practical and pragmatic guide for healthcare professionals working in primary and intermediate care. This guide was commissioned to provide clarity on aspects of diagnosis, management and monitoring of asthma that are uncertain…
ISSUE 19
Key learning points:
• Taking a history, doing the examination, chest X-ray and spirometry are really important
• Look for red flags and refer these patients straight to secondary care.
• Do the basics which will point you towards the things you can do in primary care.
• If you are worried…
ISSUE 18
This edition of PCRU has a flavour of 'out with the old and in with the new', as it is the last one in which we will feature Noel Baxter's thoughts and reflections from the Chair. His successor, Carol Stonham, is fast off the mark though with her superb and clinically invaluable consensus article…
ISSUE 17
Can Only Plan Daily - COPD is a serious disease needing the right diagnosis and treatment with the person’s need sitting front and centre.
‘All that glitters is not GOLD, nor is it even NICE’ is a consensus-based article that sets out a simple treatment pathway based on the…
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