The Department of Respiratory Medicine provides a District-based respiratory service for the resident population of Salford.
The Department has a variety of subspecialty interests:
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Specialist Respiratory Nurse Service
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Bronchoscopy Service
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Sleep Service
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Lung Cancer service
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POSH service
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Difficult Asthma Service
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Community COPD service
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Interstitial lung disease service
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Combine immunology/respiratory Bronchiectasis clinic
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Pulmonary Rehabilitation
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Supervision of CAST service (COPD Assessment and Support Team)
The respiratory team has contributed to UK and European Nebulizer Guidelines (much of the advice being based on work that was done in Salford). The Salford team have also contributed to the UK National Asthma Guideline.
The Salford Respiratory Team are one of two centres leading the development of new UK guidelines for emergency oxygen use.
