Speaking at Hospital Healthcare Europe’s Clinical Excellence in Respiratory Care event, Ravijyot Saggu discussed the challenges and management of severe respiratory disease in the context of the 2024 European Respiratory Society guideline on managing severe respiratory disease in adults.
In 2024, the European Respiratory Society (ERS) convened a multiprofessional respiratory task force group to undertake a review of the symptomatic treatment of advanced respiratory disease, noting that there is often a lack of large randomised controlled trials in this area, resulting in evidence for interventions being conflicting and of varying quality.
The result was the creation of a clinical practice guideline and recommendations to support clinicians and the wider multidisciplinary team in delivering optimum patient care in this area.
At the Clinical Excellence event, chair Dr Zaheer Mangera, respiratory consultant and lung cancer lead at North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust in London, introduced respiratory and medicines optimisation pharmacist Ravijyot Saggu, one of the guideline co-authors, to share her views.
Ms Saggu, who is also chair of the UKCPA Respiratory Committee and clinical member of the NHS England Respiratory Clinical Reference Group, discussed the challenges of respiratory care and severe lung disease, as well as the ERS advanced symptom management guideline 2024 and its implications for practice. Scroll down and click play to watch now.
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