This CPD module provides practical and pragmatic approaches to diagnostic work up for patients presenting with suspected asthma or COPD during the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Learning objectives
What to do:
- if a patient presents with ongoing respiratory symptoms during the Covid-19 pandemic
- if a diagnosis of asthma is highly likely
- for patients for whom a diagnosis of COPD is suspected
- if the clinical picture is suggestive of a lung cancer component (chest pain, haemoptysis, older age, low body mass index [BMI] and prolonged smoking history).
Authors
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Carol Stonham, chair of the Primary Care Respiratory Society and senior nurse practitioner (respiratory) at NHS Gloucestershire CCG; Noel Baxter, a GP and executive lead for policy at the Primary Care Respiratory Society
The full module can be found on the Nursing in Practice Learning website.
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