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Education & research from the Respiratory Department at King's College Hospital, London. #RespEd #RespisBest #ThoracicThursday Find us on insta & Bluesky
Camberwell, London
Joined May 2020
Each #ThoracicThursday we post a @MRCPUK #SCE style #Respiratory quiz question. Answers, explanations & useful resources follow on Friday. Have a look below for past Qs #RespEd #RespIsBest #Meded
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Looking for #RespEd quiz questions? We’re over on Bluesky 🦋 with a question a day at #BTSWinter2024
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Fantastic to listen to @Nickmaskell1’s incoming @BTSrespiratory presidential lecture “trials, training and tyres”. Thankfully the focus is on his research story, without too many Lycra-clad photos! @UKPleura #BTS2024
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We’re over on Bluesky! Join us there for quiz questions and more!
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@bluesky Congrats to @drmanaf12 @hugoresp & @mujtabwaris who were correct this week! Do join us over on @bluesky so your prowess can find new audiences! #RespEd #RespIsBest
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Ok that's it this week! We've moved to @bluesky so come & join us over there, free from hate speech! https://t.co/SnXSl7IWqu 12/12 /end
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People need accurate information about vaccine beenfits, side effects & risks so that they can make informed decisions. Healthcare workers have an important role in providing info & signposting to trusted sources 11/n #RespEd #RespIsBest
https://t.co/m1i41vxGrn
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Subunit vaccines may be conjugate, recombinant or toxoid. Diptheria, Tetanus & Pertussis are toxoid vaccines. Toxoids cause a strong immune responses, but are only possible for a small number of diseases https://t.co/1wbhs31lnv 10/n #RespEd #RespIsBest
vaccineknowledge.ox.ac.uk
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mRNA vaccines are non-infectious, non-integrating so there is no potential risk of infection or insertional mutagenesis. They can be produced cheaply at scale. Pfizer/BioNTech & Moderna COVID vaccines are mRNA vaccines https://t.co/D8xcYb1KzH 9/n #RespEd #RespIsBest
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Inactivated vaccines contain whole virus particles that have been killed or inactivated. The immunity conferred by these vaccines is weaker than live vaccines, so require boosters. The polio vaccine given by infection is inactivated. 8/n #RespEd #RespIsBest
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Live attenuated vaccines contain live virus particles that have been weakened. They create a strong immune response. The MMR & Chickenpox vaccines are live attenuated. https://t.co/RClNltZmrW 7/n #RespEd #RespIsBest
historyofvaccines.org
Vaccines are made using several processes. They may contain live (attenuated) pathogens, inactivated or killed viruses, inactivated toxins, pieces of a pathogen, or code to tell your immune cells to...
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Over the years, incredible breakthroughs have led to multiple types of vaccines against a range of conditions, may of which are now thankfully rare. 6/n #RespEd #RespIsBest
https://t.co/as0hWGZCc9
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Jenner's methods would not be acceptable today, but at the time the potential greater good was accepted as justification for possible harm to an individual within a clinical trial. https://t.co/t0UYA1zgLG 5/n #RespEd #RespIsBest
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
In 1798 Dr Edward Jenner published his famous account of “vaccination”. Some claim that a Research Ethics Committee, had it existed in the 1790s, might have rejected his work. I provide the histori...
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Two months later Jenner inoculated Phipps with matter from a human smallpox sore. Phipps remained in perfect health. The term ‘vaccine’ was later coined, taken from the Latin word for cow, vacca. 4/n #RespEd #RespIsBest
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In May 1796 Edward Jenner inoculated 8yr old James Phipps with matter collected from a cowpox sore on the hand of a milkmaid. He had a local reaction & felt unwell for several days but made a full recovery. 3/n #RespEd #RespIsBest
https://t.co/ks3I8tVFy6
en.wikipedia.org
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In 1721, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu brought smallpox inoculation to Europe, by asking that her two daughters be inoculated against smallpox as she had observed the practice in Turkey. 2/n #RespEd #RespIsBest
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Let's take a look at vaccines! People have been trying to prevent deadly & disabling infections for a very long time. From at least the 15th century variolation has been tried - intentionally exposing healthy people to smallpox https://t.co/oNHO7mSvmi 1/n #RespEd #RespIsBest
who.int
For centuries, humans have looked for ways to protect each other against deadly diseases. From experiments and taking chances to a global vaccine roll-out in the midst of an unprecedented pandemic,...
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It's answer time! The answer to Q56 was D. RSV vaccine is a single surgace protein from the virus. Were you correct? How much do you know about how vaccines work? #RespEd #RespIsBest #meded #vaccinessavelives #vaccineswork
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Get your answers in! Quick march! #RespIsBest
A slightly belated happy #ThoracicThursday on the theme of marvellous #vaccines. No particular reason... Do you know the answer? #RespEd #RespIsBest
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A slightly belated happy #ThoracicThursday on the theme of marvellous #vaccines. No particular reason... Do you know the answer? #RespEd #RespIsBest
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Unfortunately world events have rendered us unable to write a question this week! So we’ll be back for #ThoracicThursday next week. Here is a teabag that looks like lungs in the meantime. #RespIsBest
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