Emergencies in Respiratory Medicine

Ruth Cade graduated from the Royal College of Physicians and obtained a specialty certificate examination in respiratory medicine in 2021. She started her speciality training at Mersey and West Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust in which she is now a consultant in respiratory and general medicine. Throughout her career she has taken part in both informal and more formal teaching for medical students and junior doctors. These include bedside clinical teaching and classroom-based teaching sessions on various topics relating to respiratory medicine. She has also contributed as part of the NW Collaborative Organisation for Respiratory Research.Ryan Robinson graduated from the University of Liverpool and following a brief spell working abroad. He started Specialty training in Respiratory and General internal Medicine in the North-West region and completed his PhD at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine, focusing on human respiratory challenge models, respiratory vaccine development and respiratory infection diagnostics for which he was awarded a regional and international award. His passions are the development of affordable, effective respiratory infection vaccines, novel infection diagnostics with a direct application to clinical practice, and medical education.

• 1: Ryan Robinson: The peri-arrest patient 2: Ryan Robinson: Dyspnoea 3: Ruth Cade: Wheeze and dyspnoea 4: Ryan Robinson: Cough, sputum and fever 5: Ryan Robinson: Record keeping and social media 6: Ruth Cade: Haemoptysis 7: Ruth Cade: Chest pain 8: Ruth Cade: Acute respiratory failure 9: Ryan Robinson: Common chest radiograph presentations 10: Ryan Robinson: Inhalational injuries 11: Ryan Robinson: Inhaled foreign bodies 12: Freddy Frost: Problems related to adverse environments 13: Ffion Carlin: The immunocompromised patient 14: Freddy Frost: Post lung transplant 15: Ruth Cade: Superior vena cava obstruction 16: Ryan Robinson: End stage pulmonary disease 17: Annemarie Brunswicker: Post thoracic surgery 18: Ryan Robinson: Anaphylaxis 19: Laurence Allan: ARDS 20: Ruth Cade: Asthma 21: Kostas Liatsikos: COPD 22: Rebecca Nightingale and Renu Abraham: Breathing pattern disorders 23: Ffion Carlin: Respiratory infections 24: Ffion Carlin: TB and NTM 25: Ffion Carlin: Pleural effusions 26: Ffion Carlin: Pleural infections 27: Ffion Carlin: Pneumothorax 28: Ruth Cade: Pulmonary embolism 29: David Green: Pulmonary-renal syndromes 30: Kostas Liatsikos: Bronchiectasis 31: David Green and Ffion Carlin: Cystic fibrosis 32: Arafat Mulla: Interstitial lung disease 33: Arafat Mulla: Sarcoidosis 34: Arafat Mulla: Respiratory conditions associated with connective tissue disorders 35: Freddy Frost: Pulmonary hypertension 36: Ayesha Kumar: Respiratory problems in neuromuscular disease 37: Becks Shaw: Sickle cell disease 38: Ayesha Kumar: Sleep disordered breathing 39: Ruth Cade: Known diagnosis of lung cancer 40: Laurence Allan: Airway management 41: Laurence Allan: Tracheostomy 42: Ayesha Kumar: Oxygen therapy 43: Ryan Robinson: Nebulisers 44: Ayesha Kumar: Non-invasive ventilation 45: Laurence Allan: ICU referrals 46: Laurence Allan: Pre-operative assessment 47: Rebecca Nightingale and Renu Abraham: Respiratory physiotherapy 48: Vicki Randles: Pleural aspiration 49: Vicki Randles: Chest drains 50: Ryan Robinson: Arterial blood gases 51: Ryan Robinson: Pulse oximetry 52: Ryan Robinson: Peak flow 53: Ryan Robinson: Spirometry 54: Ryan Robinson: Bronchoscopy 55: Ryan Robinson: Radiology