Tag: respiratory

Who hears a whoop?

Whooping cough is a kids disease?  That is the public perception and one docs might believe as well. We have had an epidemic of B....

Acute severe asthma: the evidence 2011

All of these recent posts and commentary on severe COPD has lead to a few discussions about the management of the Acute Severe Asthmatic around...

Clinical Case 020: the ABC of APO

53 yo man with a history of hypertensive cardiomyopathy presents to ED at midnight with severe dyspnoea.  No chest pain, no oedema, no fever, cough...