Respiratory Medicine
Clinical Sections
Acute Bronchitis
• 🤧 Definition, Aetiology, and Clinical Features • 🔍 Important Differentials • 💊 Management
Asthma Guidelines
• Diagnosis of Asthma in Children • Indications for Maintenance ICS Treatment in Children 1-5 Years • Type 2 Airway Inflammation • Initial Treatment of Asthma in Children Aged 6-11 Years • Low, Medium, and High ICS Doses in Children 6-11 Years • Classification of Recent Asthma Symptom Control (6-11 Years)
Asthma in Adults
• 🫁 Pathophysiology and Common Triggers • 📊 Assessing Recent Asthma Control • 📶 Stepwise Pharmacological Management • 📝 Long-Term Asthma Management
Atypical Pneumonia
• 🫁 Mycoplasma pneumoniae • 🦜 Chlamydophila pneumoniae and C. psittaci • 🐦 Psittacosis • 🌾 Hypersensitivity Pneumonitis
Bronchiectasis
• 🔄 Definition and Pathogenesis • 🩺 Clinical Features and Diagnosis • 🛠️ Long-Term Management • 📈 Bronchiectasis Exacerbations
Chest Radiograph Interpretation
• 🧭 Basic Orientation • 🫀 Important Anatomical Structures
Chronic Cough
• 📋 Definition and Clinical Importance • 🚩 Red Flags and Cough Pointers • 🔬 Initial Investigation • 🎯 Condition-Specific Points
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• 🩺 Diagnosis and Severity • 🩻 Chest X-Ray Findings • 🚭 Stable COPD: Non-Pharmacological Management • 💊 Pharmacological Management • 📈 COPD Exacerbations • 🫧 Long-Term Oxygen Therapy and Air Travel
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease
• 🫁 Pathophysiology • 🩻 Chest Radiograph Findings • 📏 Assessing Hyperinflation • 🫀 The Floating Heart Sign
Community-Acquired Pneumonia
• 📋 Definition and Clinical Presentation • 🦠 Common Organisms and Risk Factors • 🩻 Chest-Radiograph Interpretation • 🔬 Investigations • ⚖️ Severity Assessment and Admission • 💊 CAP Treatment
COPD
• 🩺 Diagnosis and Severity • 🩻 Chest X-Ray Findings • 🚭 Stable COPD: Non-Pharmacological Management • 💊 Pharmacological Management • 📈 COPD Exacerbations • 🫧 Long-Term Oxygen Therapy and Air Travel
Environmental Infections
• 🐄 Q Fever • 💧 Leptospirosis • 🦟 Ross River Virus and Barmah Forest Virus • 🐗 Brucellosis
Interstitial Lung Disease
• 🩻 Radiographic Pattern • 🔬 Pulmonary Fibrosis
Legionnaires’ Disease
• 💧 Legionnaires' Disease
Lung Cancer
• 🫁 Small-Cell Lung Cancer • 🔤 Golden S-Sign • 📈 Extensive-Stage SCLC • 🕳️ Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer • 💣 Cannonball Metastases
Lung Cancer
• 🚬 Risk Factors • 🚩 Symptoms Requiring Investigation • 🩻 Imaging and Referral • 🔍 National Lung Cancer Screening Program
Obstructive Sleep Apnoea
• 😴 Definition and Clinical Features • 🩺 Screening and Diagnosis • 🛌 General Management • 💨 CPAP and Alternatives • 🧩 High-Yield Clinical Patterns
Occupational Lung Disease
• 🏭 Asbestos-Related Pleural Plaques • 🪨 Silicosis
Persistent Cough
• 🩺 Clinical Approach to Cough • 😮💨 Pertussis
Pleural Effusion
• 🩻 Radiographic Features • ⚖️ Transudative and Exudative Effusions • ↔️ Bilateral Pleural Effusions
Pneumonia and Pulmonary Opacities
• 🩻 Lobar Consolidation and the Silhouette Sign • 📍 Right Upper Lobe Pneumonia • 🌫️ Atypical Pneumonia • 🕳️ Cavitating Pneumonia • 🗺️ Diffuse and Multifocal Opacities
Pneumoperitoneum
• 🫧 Pneumoperitoneum on Erect Chest Radiography • 🧩 High-Yield Radiographic Pattern Recognition • 💡 Integrated Clinical Reasoning Pearls
Pneumothorax
• 🩻 Radiographic Diagnosis • 🫁 Primary Spontaneous Pneumothorax • 🤕 Traumatic Pneumothorax • 🚨 Tension Pneumothorax • 🩸 Haemopneumothorax
Radiation Pneumonitis
• ☢️ Clinical Presentation
Restrictive Lung Disease
• 📉 Restrictive Physiology • 🗂️ Interstitial Lung Disease Categories • 🏭 Occupational Interstitial Lung Disease
Sarcoidosis
• 🫁 Stage I Sarcoidosis • 🦴 Löfgren Syndrome
Spirometry
• 🫁 What Spirometry Measures and When to Use It • 📏 Reference Standards and the Interpretation Algorithm • 📈 Flow-Volume Loop and Pattern Recognition • 🧪 Performing the Test: Technique, Preparation and Quality • 💨 Bronchodilator Reversibility Testing • 🚬 Diagnosing and Grading COPD (COPD-X)
Tuberculosis
• 🔬 Clinical and Radiographic Clues • 🧪 TB Investigations • 🩸 Haemoptysis and Cavitary Lesions