Maria Stack

[ILFA Ireland @ILFA_Ireland]

Respiratory patients deserve better care & resources
"Patients waiting over a year for vital lung tests" https://t.co/FIc41P671g
@irishthoracicS @Anail_Ireland

[Aisling McGowan @McGowanAisling]

Patients waiting over a year for vital lung tests https://t.co/wFEfEvYJBB

[Dr Karl Sylvester @CambsRespPhys]

It's been amazing. Thank you for having us. What great colleagues and what a pleasure to be able to impart our knowledge. Hopefully just the start of the CPET journey for some and a little bit of a refresher for others.

@wynne_orla @McGowanAisling @shakeyjs @wearetuhf @HSELive

[TSANZ @tsanz_thoracic]

We are excited to announce that the joint TSANZ & ANZSRS position paper on Pulmonary Function Testing during SARS-CoV-2: An ANZSRS/TSANZ position statement is now live! Please click here to view the full paper: https://t.co/Tp0iShiLZ3

[Prof Jane Lucas 💙 @JaneSLucas1]

It's great fun working with these co-authors to discover the different practices to measure nasal NO for diagnosis of #PrimaryCiliaryDyskinesia The survey demonstrates a need for standardised methods, and we are now working on those @beatpcd @EuroRespSoc
https://t.co/wioL6anPO3

[Paul Nolan @pnolan99]

Great to see Irish Clinical Physiologists contributing at International level.
Great work @McGowanAisling

[Aisling McGowan @McGowanAisling]

International consensus on lung function testing during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond https://t.co/pkncTuOZQl @IrishClinical @irishthoracicS @ERSpublications @ERS_Assembly9

[ERS publications @ERSpublications]

Given the millions of patients infected with #SARSCoV2 worldwide and the need for multidisciplinary management of the chronic complications, post-acute #COVID19 syndrome will be a major issue for various healthcare providers in the coming months. https://t.co/8DNrkFenqf

[John Wenger @johnwenger9]

So, it seems that Bus Éireann is not interested in improving ventilation on their buses, even though
it would be very easy to change settings on their air supply systems to maximise the fresh air intake.

See clip below taken from https://t.co/uZ46zxsj7b

[Brian Kiely #TheGolfAngel🪽 #BeARayofSunshine ☀️ @BrianKiely2]

Failure to legislate for and to incentivise Proper Ventilation Measures in buildings have been two major failures of the handling of the #Covid19 Irish response to date. We can and must proactively do much better in providing better quality of air to suppress the Virus. #CleanAir

[John Wenger @johnwenger9]

Spain has not dropped its mask mandate and guess what...the number of daily infections is half of that in Ireland, even though its population is 10 times larger.

[National HSCP Office, HSE @WeHSCPs]

and exploring how we can find ways to increase capacity for placements which is key to meeting current and future HSCP workforce requirements #HSCPDeliver
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[CUH_HSCP @cuh_hscp]

Great to get enthused new members to reignite Committee and begin planning for National HSCP Day April 27th #WeHSCP @WeHSCPs #HSCPDeliver

[Aisling McGowan @McGowanAisling]

Many requests for information on mitigation strategies for lung function during this covid-19 surge. Summary figures from Early view ERJ open presented here. Please share https://t.co/SnppvImYz6

[Orla Hegarty @Orla_Hegarty]

#Covid19 “All schools should prepare a plan to improve indoor environment through upgrade of window openings, natural cross ventilation, monitoring of CO2 & temperature”
..study of 9 schools in Spain before & during pandemic. Risk was managed, even in cold https://t.co/KY0H8PNDnO

[Maria Stack @MariaStack]

@McGowanAisling @ERS_Assembly9 @ERS_Assembly4 @IrishClinical Well done @mcgowanaisling & co authors for this most comprehensive piece of work

[Aisling McGowan @McGowanAisling]

International consensus on lung function testing during COVID-19 pandemic and beyond https://t.co/E0X89AydiF

Early view of our international consensus statement on lung function and COVID-19.Thank you to all the contributing authors @ERS_Assembly9 @ERS_Assembly4 @IrishClinical

[Dr Karl Sylvester @CambsRespPhys]

@lungtaskforce ahead of the game and already have lung gas transfer measurements early in their proposed diagnostic pathway 👍

[CHEST® Journal @journal_CHEST]

The authors describe the natural course of DLCO in 602 smokers over a 5-year period: Patients w/ COPD have an increased yearly DLCO decline compared w/ smokers without COPD.

Women w/ COPD had lower DLCO values despite having higher spirometry values: https://t.co/qhXnpe81un