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Quarantined respiratory physician under Public Health Order

Brisbane respiratory and sleep physician Dr Glenn Rice-McDonald is among a group of doctors caught up in tough new regulations requiring enforced quarantine in hotel rooms at the port of entry for all returning travellers to Australia. ...

Brisbane respiratory and sleep physician Dr Glenn Rice-McDonald is among a group of doctors caught up in tough...

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Pneumonia

Audit highlights how COVID-19 in critical care differs from usual viral pneumonia cases

Emerging data from critical care units in the UK has provided details on the groups most at risk of severe disease from COVID-19, how it compares to pre-pandemic viral pneumonia and how those on the front line are...

Emerging data from critical care units in the UK has provided details on the groups most at risk...
Asthma

Stop spirometry and respiratory therapies: TSANZ

Lung function testing and the use of respiratory therapies such as nebulisers should be stopped in all but medically essential cases because of the risk of COVID19 transmission, the Thoracic Society of Australia and New Zealand (TSANZ) has advised. There...

Lung function testing and the use of respiratory therapies such as nebulisers should be stopped in all but medically essential...
Pneumonia

Respiratory physicians among 51 doctor deaths from COVID-19 in Italy

At least five respiratory physicians are among the 51 doctors in Italy who have died as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. In what is being described in the Italian media as the “white coat massacre”, respiratory physicians have been among...

At least five respiratory physicians are among the 51 doctors in Italy who have died as a result of the...