Becky D’Cruz

🤝 In-person, hands-on training for Non-Invasive & Home Mechanical Ventilation 🤝

Join our practical course to get real-world, interactive learning and develop essential skills for managing NIV & HMV.

📅 18 June 2025
📍 Manchester
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The Summer Meeting is only weeks away and we will soon be setting up for two days of inspiring, educational talks and seminars including an overview of the Evolving Landscape of Respiratory Care.

Book now 👉️ brit-thoracic.uk/SM25

People with COPD feel like 'second class citizens', finds new report A report from King’s College London sets out the stark reality people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) face in securing diagnosis and accessing care.

A new report has found that people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) feel like ‘second class citizens’.

Launched today at the House of Commons, the report sets out the stark reality people with COPD face in securing diagnosis & accessing care.

www.kcl.ac.uk/news/people-...

The New England Journal of Medicine Mepolizumab for COPD with an Eosinophilic Phenotype A Research Summary based on Sciurba FC et al. | 10.1056/NEJMoa2413181 | Published on May 1, 2025 Visual representations of the patients in the trial and the treatments they were assigned. Read the full Research Summary at NEJM.org.

In the MATINEE trial, the addition of mepolizumab to the treatment of patients with COPD and an elevated eosinophil count led to a lower rate of moderate or severe exacerbations than placebo. Full trial results and Research Summary: nej.md/3YjqZe4 

#MedSky #PulmSky

An illustration of mepolizumab for treating patients with COPD and eosinophilic inflammation

Mepolizumab reduces exacerbations in COPD with eosinophilic inflammation.

See highlights from the MATINEE trial in a new Quick Take video.

🎥 Watch here: nej.md/3GxZAis

#MedSky #PulmSky

The least-squares mean percent changes in body weight

Presented at #ECO2025:

In the SURMOUNT-5 phase 3b trial involving adults with obesity without type 2 diabetes, tirzepatide was superior to semaglutide in reducing body weight and waist circumference. Full trial results: nej.md/44ZeMPz

@easoobesity.bsky.social

A graph showing unadjusted proportions of Medicare beneficiaries who remained alive according to month since Medicaid disenrollment.

Dual-eligible Medicare–Medicaid beneficiaries receive the Low-Income Subsidy, which reduces cost sharing for medications. Loss of drug subsidies after Medicaid disenrollment was associated with increased mortality. Learn more in a Special Article: nej.md/4jS1wRt

#MedSky #PublicHealth

A graph showing the change from baseline in average sleep latency on the Maintenance of Wakefulness Test (MWT)

In the TAK-861-2001 trial involving 112 participants with narcolepsy type 1, oveporexton significantly improved measures of wakefulness, sleepiness, and cataplexy over a period of 8 weeks. Full trial results: nej.md/3ZdlKNi

#MedSky #NeuroSky

Dr Charlie Addy giving insights into practical steps to get into research as part of respiratory training

Informative and pragmatic day at the BTS Respiratory Clinical Research Training Day

#RespIsBest #BTS

RESP Webinars are an initiative we have developed in partnership with INSPIRE and Asthma + Lung UK to provide a free educational resource to respiratory professionals.
Join Mona Bafadhel for insights into COPD Exacerbation Management.

Book here 👉 brit-thoracic.uk/RESPMay25

Only a few more days to join INSPIRE for an insightful webinar with Professor Nick Hart exploring health tech strategies for advanced COPD & the future of respiratory research.

📅 Wednesday 2 April, 7-8pm
brit-thoracic.uk/RESPApril

#COPD #Webinar #INSPIRE @aluk_research

Inaugural BTS Clinical Research Training day:

Dr @akijha.bsky.social demonstrating the power of research to improve patient care & breadth of research within Respiratory Medicine - get involved!

Check out INSPIRE network @inspireresp.bsky.social www.inspirerespiratory.co.uk

“That they should be the ones to welcome Pope Francis’s coffin in the basilica is because these people are those who represented the focus of his mission,” said Father Giulio Albanese, head of missionary cooperation and communications for the Vicariate of Rome. “They are those who live on the peripheries, geographical and existential peripheries.”

The final honor guard for Pope Francis included migrants, prisoners, transgender people, the homeless and others selected by the Vicariate of Rome as a symbol of the late pope’s mission of inclusion and outreach.

Read more from the funeral: wapo.st/3YdDGqM

Nasal High Flow to Modulate Dyspnea in Orally Intubated Weanable Patients
@atscommunity.bsky.social #medsky

🔓 Open Access

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Nasal High Flow to Modulate Dyspnea in Orally Intubated Patients
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Deporting Immigrants May Further Shrink the Health Care Workforce This study explores the potential for health care staffing shortages in the US by estimating the number of immigrants employed in health care who could be affected by deportation or immigration restrictions.

Deportations and immigration restrictions could impact the US health care system by removing skilled noncitizen workers, leading to staff shortages and compromised patient care. https://ja.ma/4ci0NpS

Kaplan–Meier survival estimates according to survey and wealth in the Health and Retirement Study (HRS)

Among U.S. and European adults, greater wealth was associated with lower mortality. The difference in mortality between the wealthiest and poorest appeared to be larger in the United States than in Europe. Learn more in a Special Article: nej.md/4l4a2xX

#MedSky #HealthPolicy #PublicHealth

I gave a talk last month on plastics & health. Terrified myself! This paper alone should make us all re-evaluate our single use plastic throwaway culture yesterday! www.nejm.org/doi/full/10....

Diaphragm Pacing in Early Critical Illness? A Plea for a Super-Relaxed Approach

Electrical pacing of the diaphragm is an attractive intervention to prevent diaphragm weakness. But what does physiology tell us? Relax!
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Job Vacancy at the University of Nottingham: Clinical Assistant Professor (NIHR Clinical Lecturer) (Fixed term) Applications are invited from medically-qualified doctors who seek integrated academic and clinical training for a clinical academic career. One post is available in competition between applications f...

We are recruiting!!

Are you pursuing a respiratory clinical academic career?

Looking for NIHR clinical lecturer post?

A post in resp medicine with focus on multiple long-term conditions. jobs.nottingham.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...
#Respsky #Academicsky #lungsky #medsky
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How racism affects health Our report with the Runnymede Trust highlights large and unacceptable variations in how the building blocks of health are experienced by ethnicity.

Our new report with @runnymedetrust.bsky.social reveals stark inequalities in access to the building blocks of good health by ethnicity, and identifies ways in which structural racism operates across our labour market, housing systems and the lived environment.

Read it here 👇

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Follow us to keep up to date with activities of the Lane Fox Respiratory Service & Clinical Respiratory Physiology Research Centre, and updates in all things mechanical ventilation 🫁🌬️

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The Lane Fox Respiratory Multidisciplinary Team have had a wonderful time in Lyon attending JIVD 🫁

So many excellent sessions and a lot of food for thought

#RespIsBest #DreamTeam

Saxon and Adam, resident doctors, delivering their oral presentation on NIV adherence in patients setup as an inpatient or outpatient at Lane Fox, or at a remote hospital following emergency hospitalisation

#JIVD2025 #JIVD

Dr Michelle Ramsay, consultant respiratory physician, giving insights into novel methods of monitoring patients using home ventilation. Examples of ventilator data, asynchrony and surface EMG

#JIVD2025 #JIVDERCA #JIVD

Dr Georgios Kaltsakas, consultant respiratory physician, comparing long term outcomes between patients receiving invasive vs non invasive home mechanical ventilation

#JIVD2025 #JIVDERCA #JIVD

Dr Rebecca D’Cruz, consultant respiratory physician, covering applications of high flow therapy in COPD

#JIVD2025 #JIVDERCA #JIVD
#COPD

Dr Patrick Murphy, consultant respiratory physician and Lane Fox Clinical Lead, discussing positive airways pressure in obesity related respiratory failure and sleep disordered breathing, CPAP vs NIV

#JIVD2025 #JIVD #JIVDERCA #Obesity #SleepDisorderedBreathing

Downtime in the park to digest all we’ve learned about home mechanical ventilation

#ParkLife #DreamTeam 🤩

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Lauren, specialist physiotherapist, and Corliss, occupational therapist, considering measures of frailty in patients undergoing prolonged weaning from invasive mechanical ventilation

#JIVD2025 #JIVD #JIVDERCA #AlliedHealthcareProfessionals #Frailty #weaning