Please check out and point patients/carers to this resource - https://t.co/Fwk11IsTMz. The fruit of a national collaboration between patients/carers and HCPs. A huge step forward in facilitating shared decision making in managing malignant pleural effusion.

📢Hot off the press! Our paper in @BMJOpen_Resp explores the psychosocial impact of Indwelling Pleural Catheters in patients with malignant pleural effusions. Access the full paper here: https://t.co/mvxipNruJ9 #PleuralDisease #IPC #PatientExperience

THE AUSTRALASIAN PLEURAL SEMINARS (TAPS) topics for 2024. Join us Mar 6: 6pm (NZ) 4pm (NSW) 1pm (HKG/SG/MAS). @d33pan will discuss OPTIMUM trial result: indwelling pleural catheter on QoL https://t.co/bAwyg6532a Meeting ID: 878 7394 5415 Code: 720098 @PleuralPOCUS @pocus_today

@ERSpublications Alternate way to put it: IPC improves QoL as much as conventional chest drain/pleurodesis; as also shown in TIME-2 & AMPLE-1 with different instruments of assessment. Key message: choose IPC vs chest drain on other considerations eg procedure avoidance etc. @d33pan @Charlies_Resp

European Respiratory Journal: IPCs are not superior to chest drain and pleurodesis at improving quality of life in patients with malignant pleural effusion  https://t.co/X1alYpU9PP

Indwelling pleural catheters or chest drains for managing malignant pleural effusions: a distinction without a difference?

Thank you to all who joined today's TAPS: Excited by the overwhelming response! Next Seminar on March 6th @4pm AEST @6pm NZ by Dr Deepan Sivakumar on 'Indwelling #Pleural Catheter: Improving care' (+ OPTIMUM trial results). Mark it in diary! @PleuralPOCUS #MedEd #MedTwitter

The AUSTRALASIAN PLEURAL SEMINAR (TAPS) SERIES starts 31 January 2024 @ 18:00 NZ; 16:00 AEDT; 13:00 (WA). #pleura #MedEd Dr Dhaval Thakkar: Secondary Pneumothorax

@HMRIAustralia Asthma & Breathing Research Symposium 2023: #Pleural session featuring @d33pan showing highlights of OPTIMUM trial results (in press ERJ); @JohnHar67438702 on implementation hurdles of tPA/DNase; @vin_george2 on new studies to streamline pleural diagnosis/Rx. #PCCM

Fantastic to hear from @vin_george2 at today's @HMRIAustralia Asthma and Breathing meeting about the STREAMLINE study, aimed at improving the time to definitive diagnosis and treatment in those with suspected malignant pleural effusions

An incredibly inspiring lecture by Professor @YCGaryLee at the @HMRIAustralia Inaugural Asthma and Breathing programme meeting on why research is so important with insights on how to start. The smallest projects with minimal resources can have a huge impact on patient care!

This Fellowship suits those wishing to develop specialist skills to become a #pleural lead clinician. Full time looking after pleural patients in an intellectually stimulating environment. See https://t.co/7xossKAyd2 for list of past fellows. Pls RT to anyone else interested

Omicron can be renamed the silver wave. Little respiratory illness but lots and lots of frail older folk with falls, delirium, functional decline needing geriatricians, PT/OT/SS and care home beds and we have nowhere near enough. Really exacerbates a long standing problem.

Rate of pneumomediastinum of about 0.64% in the second wave of COVID-19 in the UK

Lovely EMG data from @d33pan pre and post therapeutic pleural aspiration. Neural respiratory drive is high pre-drainage - higher than for many COPD patients. Mostly figures improves after fluid removal, but small numbers. Interesting work. #PRD2021 @UKPleura

#pleural #respisbest #gstt

Resp Trainee and want to sub-specialise in pleural? 12 month fellowship at St Thomas', London. - https://t.co/zHH3QYmRFT

First article with the OUH gang! @naj_rahman and Radhika Banka, great to learn about the latest developments in the management of pleural infection in bringing it together, open access so do check out for some #RespEd 😊

Such an important area to look at

Implementing a standardised electronic logbook for respiratory procedures with outcomes & automated performance metrics - the pulmonary passport. Huge potential to scale up! @BTSrespiratory @UKPleura @respfutures @lung_doc_ @achengUK @RCPLondon @JRCPTB https://t.co/4gJ1W6d9tE

Is it just me, or is this vaguely reminiscent of a medical student at their first conference presenting a poster... both in terms of delivery and the quality of analysis. Actually, I apologize future medics, I know that YOU atleast appreciate that the denominator matters!