Background The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into critical care offers significant potential to enhance early ...

Rationale Telemonitoring has shown benefits during the initiation of home non-invasive ventilation (NIV) but evidence is lacking regarding its use during follow-up. A French national telemonitoring ...

A pillar of the WHO End TB Strategy is targeted latent tuberculosis infection (LTBI) testing to identify persons who would benefit from TB preventive treatment (TPT).1 The WHO recommends the ...

This is a summary of the recommendations of the joint guideline on Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring and chronic asthma management, which was published in November 2024. This new collaborative guideline ...

Background Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a heterogeneous disease with frequently associated interstitial lung disease (SSc-ILD). We aimed to determine the prognostic potential of phenotyping patients ...

Background The aetiology of lung cancer among individuals who never smoked remains elusive, despite 15% of lung cancer cases in men and 53% in women worldwide being unrelated to smoking. Epigenetic ...

Hypoxaemia. Patients should be monitored by continuous pulse oximetry during bronchoscopy. (Grade C) Oxygen supplementation should be used when desaturation is significant (pulse oximeter oxygen ...

In 1997 the British Thoracic Society (BTS) published advice entitled “Suspected acute pulmonary embolism: a practical approach”.1 It was recognised that it would need updating within a few years.

Diagnosis of mediastinal/hilar lymph nodes and peribronchial masses: Conventional transbronchial fine needle aspiration (TBNA) B: Conventional transbronchial needle aspiration (TBNA) is a safe ...

Interstitial lung abnormalities, when present in members of undiagnosed family members recruited on the basis of familial interstitial pneumonia, or in undiagnosed research participants, have been ...

PM 2.5 as a risk factor for sleep oxygen desaturation in COPD: identifying susceptible individuals by smoking and inflammatory phenotypes ...