Module Summary
This module provides practical and pragmatic approaches to diagnostic work up for patients presenting with suspected asthma or COPD during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Learning Objectives
This module will inform you on:
- what to do if a patient presents with ongoing respiratory symptoms during the Covid-19 pandemic
- if a diagnosis of asthma is highly likely
- what do to for patients for whom a diagnosis of COPD is suspected
- if the clinical picture is suggestive of a lung cancer component (chest pain, haemoptysis, older age, low body mass index [BMI] and prolonged smoking history).
Author
Carol Stonham, chair of the Primary Care Respiratory Society and senior nurse practitioner (respiratory) at NHS Gloucestershire CCG; Noel Baxter, a GP and executive lead for policy at the Primary Care Respiratory Society
Date module published
Aug 12, 2020
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