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Non-attendance at a difficult-asthma clinic
Patients may miss difficult-asthma clinic appointments for several reasons; a study examined whether telephoning those who did not turn up improved future attendance
'I should not have had to be the one to decide if I needed to stay in hospital'
Denise Beach has asthma. She outlines her problems in accessing appropriate treatment in accident and emergency
Buteyko technique use to control asthma symptoms
The Buteyko breathing technique has been shown to help people control asthma symptoms and could be incorporated into asthma reviews by practice nurses
Managing hay fever during the exam period
Hay-fever symptoms tend to coincide with school and college examination periods and, if uncontrolled, can have a detrimental effect on students’ results
Care bundles reduce readmissions for COPD
A care bundle for patients with acute exacerbations of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease enabled nurses to improve the care pathway and reduce readmissions
The development process for a new spacer device
The second article in a two-part series on the use of spacers to treat asthma in children describes the development of a child friendly spacer
Inhaler spacer devices to treat asthma in children
More than one million children in the UK have asthma. Those who use spacers with their inhalers have a better chance of getting an effective drug dose
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Responsible prescribing for asthma and COPD
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Cutting levels of antimicrobial resistance
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Opioids in palliative care: the NICE guidance
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PEG feeding tube placement and aftercare
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Ethical issues around continuous deep sedation without hydration
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Silver tube coatings in pneumonia prevention
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Symptom "accommodation" in patients with COPD
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Breastfeeding: how to increase prevalence
News
Glass risk sparks alert of asthma treatment
A drug alert has been issued over the risk of glass particles in some batches of an asthma treatment.
COPD patients suffer pain 'on par with arthritis'
Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) experience significant chronic pain of similar severity to the pain of arthritis, a new study has found.
Ginger 'helps alleviate asthma'
Spicing up asthma medications with ginger may make them more effective, a study has shown.
New hayfever treatment launched
A novel nasal spray formulation of fluticasone propionate and azelastine hydrochloride has been launched in the UK for relief of symptoms of moderate to severe seasonal and perennial allergic rhinitis.
‘Magic bullet’ treatment touted for acute lung injury
Future treatment of acute lung injury (ALI) could involve a ‘magic bullet’ nanomedicine, designed to target the point of inflammation.
New asthma inhaler launched
A new asthma combined maintenance and reliever treatment has been launched in the UK.
Asthma care 'variation warning'
There is an “alarming variation” across the country in the numbers of asthma patients who are admitted to hospitals after suffering from an asthma attack, a charity has said.
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All inpatients should be encouraged to stop smoking, states NICE
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NICE consults on new intubation device
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New TB resource for primary care nurses
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NICE sets out new standards for asthma care
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Sars-like virus patient dies in hospital
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Third case of new respiratory infection confirmed in UK
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Norfolk nurse shortlisted for 'flu fighter' award
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Annual Conference of ARNS 2013 calls for abstracts
ARNS
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practice blog
How do you get hospital staff to walk in the shoes of people with dementia?
Yesterday I went to see a play Inside out of Mind. Based on a dementia admissions ward it told the story of staff and patients.
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'Nurses must get involved in national debates to be heard'
I qualified as a nurse more than 17 years ago and, as a result of that, I have seen three governments run the NHS, continuous changes and a whole host of health-service scandals that have ended in increased scrutiny and criticism by the media and by society.
Favourites from the archive
Acute respiratory failure 1: assessing patients
This is the first in a two-part unit on acute respiratory failure. Part 1 explores respiratory failure and its causes and identifies ways of recognising patients in acute respiratory failure.
Behind the Headlines
Caesarean birth link to asthma lacks proof
‘Babies delivered by caesarean section at higher risk of asthma and allergies’, the Mail Online reports.
