Get Well Soon

Eat well to get well.

mprovement in functional performance is considered an important management goal in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). Pulmonary rehabilitation is now considered as an evidence based intervention to achieve an improvement in functional capacity as well as other management goals such as improved health status and reduction in breathlessness. 1 Although exercise training i...

Recently published papers: choose well, treat well, get well – which matters most?

Choice underpins everything we do as critical care clinicians. We choose whether to treat, when to treat and how to treat from an ever-increasing selection of alternatives, and whether to afford the costs associated with the decisions we have made. Some recent articles have looked at how one chooses to ventilate patients (noninvasively or not), how to deal with and avoid ventilator-acquired pne...

"How did it get so late so soon?": Tips and tricks for managing time.

Apocalypse soon?

When the Lord smote the Philistines with emerods in their secret parts he left it to historians to debate the nature of this lethal affliction. Literally translated, emerods are haemorrhoids, but it is surely unlikely that so hardy a race would have succumbed to an epidemic of piles. Scholarly opinion seems to concur that the emerods were buboes in the groin, one of the agonising manifestations...

No heroic measures: how soon is too soon to stop?