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Respiratory tract diseases

Narrative review

Interventional bronchoscopy for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: more than a pipe dream

Alan M Carew, Jonathan P Williamson, Claude S Farah, Tajalli Saghaie, Martin Phillips and Alvin Ing

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (6): 280-285

Perspectives

We are not doing enough to prevent the spread of COVID‐19 and other respiratory viruses in Australian hospitals

Peter AB Wark, C Raina MacIntyre, Scott Bell, Brian Oliver and Guy B Marks

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (4): 152-153.e1 Free

Medical education / Snapshot

Cystic and cavitating lung lesions as a presenting finding of metastatic prostate cancer

Michael A Cilento and Christopher M Hocking

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (10): 459-459.e1

Perspectives

Dust diseases in modern Australia: a discussion of the new TSANZ position statement on respiratory surveillance

Deborah H Yates, Jennifer L Perret, Margaret Davidson, Susan E Miles and AW Musk

Med J Aust 2021; 215 (1): 13-15.e1

Research letters

Clinical course and care requirements during the 2020 COVID‐19 epidemic in South Australia

Daniel Haustead, Dylan J Toh, Benjamin Reddi, Emily Kirkpatrick, Emily Rowe, Pamela Outhwaite, Elizabett Harnack, Michael Cusack and Megan Brooks

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (10): 471-473 Free

Letters

N95 or P2 respirator fit testing policy in Australia: implementation issues to consider

Anand Ganesan, Jane Parker and Darius Chapman

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (8): 387-387.e1 Free

Letters

Acquisition of COVID‐19 by health care workers: the importance of non‐patient workplace sources

Rebecca J Hogan and Suzanne McEvoy

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (7): 332-332.e1 Free

Research letters

Persistent symptoms up to four months after community and hospital‐managed SARS‐CoV‐2 infection

David R Darley, Gregory J Dore, Lucette Cysique, Kay A Wilhelm, David Andresen, Katrina Tonga, Emily Stone, Anthony Byrne, Marshall Plit, Jeffrey Masters, Helen Tang, Bruce Brew, Philip Cunningham, Anthony Kelleher and Gail V Matthews

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (6): 279-280 Free

Perspectives

A national system for monitoring intensive care unit demand and capacity: the Critical Health Resources Information System (CHRIS)

David Pilcher, Nicholas R Coatsworth, Melissa Rosenow and Jason McClure

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (7): 297-298.e1 Free

Perspectives

A pathway for acute chest imaging in suspected or confirmed COVID‐19

David Ngan, Suzanne McKeen, Meegan Gun, Daniel Haustead, Andrew Low, Brett Lorraine and James Bewes

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (7): 299-301.e1 Free

Medical education / Snapshot

Miliary EGFR mutated non‐small cell lung cancer

Mike M Nguyen and Melissa M Moore

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (3): 118-118

Letters

Time for a clear national COVID‐19 strategy

James M Trauer, Ben J Marais, Romain Ragonnet, Julian Savulescu and Emma S McBryde

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (2): 94-94.e1 Free

Letters

Consensus statement: Safe Airway Society principles of airway management and tracheal intubation specific to the COVID‐19 adult patient group

Katherine E Triplett and Luke W Collett

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (1): 45-45.e1 Free

Letters

Consensus statement: Safe Airway Society principles of airway management and tracheal intubation specific to the COVID‐19 adult patient group

David J Brewster, Christopher J Groombridge and Jonathan J Gatward

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (1): 46-46.e1 Free

Research

Outcomes for patients with COVID‐19 admitted to Australian intensive care units during the first four months of the pandemic

Aidan JC Burrell, Breanna Pellegrini, Farhad Salimi, Husna Begum, Tessa Broadley, Lewis T Campbell, Allen C Cheng, Winston Cheung, D James Cooper, Arul Earnest, Simon J Erickson, Craig J French, John M Kaldor, Edward Litton, Srinivas Murthy, Richard E McAllister, Alistair D Nichol, Annamaria Palermo, Mark P Plummer, Mahesh Ramanan, Benjamin AJ Reddi, Claire Reynolds, Tony Trapani, Steve A Webb and Andrew A Udy

Med J Aust 2021; 214 (1): 23-30 Free

Christmas competition

My love affair with the pleural space

John Massie

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (11): 526-528.e1

Perspectives

The 2020 special report of the MJA–Lancet Countdown on health and climate change: lessons learnt from Australia’s “Black Summer”

Ying Zhang, Paul J Beggs, Alice McGushin, Hilary Bambrick, Stefan Trueck, Ivan C Hanigan, Geoffrey G Morgan, Helen L Berry, Martina K Linnenluecke, Fay H Johnston, Anthony G Capon and Nick Watts

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (11): 492.e2-492.e10 Free

Letters

ECG: essential in care of patients with COVID‐19

Kaitlyn Lam, Sarah McClelland and Michael J Dallo

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (10): 476-476.e1 Free

Medical education / Snapshot

Yellow nails syndrome: complete triad

Adrián López Alba and Agustín Blanco Echevarría

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (9): 407-407.e1

Letters

COVID‐19 response: the perspectives of infectious diseases physicians and clinical microbiologists

David A Foley and Emma Tippett, On behalf of the Australasian Society for Infectious Diseases Clinical Research Network

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (9): 431-431.e1 Free

Perspectives

Fit testing of N95 or P2 masks to protect health care workers

Adrian Regli and Britta S Ungern‐Sternberg

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (7): 293-295.e1 Free

Editorials

Red‐flagging the prescribing of oral corticosteroids for people with asthma

Christine F McDonald and Christopher J Worsnop

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (7): 313-314

Perspectives

The probability of the 6‐week lockdown in Victoria (commencing 9 July 2020) achieving elimination of community transmission of SARS‐CoV‐2

Tony Blakely, Jason Thompson, Natalie Carvalho, Laxman Bablani, Nick Wilson and Mark Stevenson

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (8): 349-351.e1 Free

Editorials

Beyond the womb: respiratory symptoms in children following acute in utero exposure to fire smoke

Julie M Marchant and Anne B Chang

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (6): 266-267

Research

Cumulative dispensing of high oral corticosteroid doses for treating asthma in Australia

Mark Hew, Vanessa M McDonald, Phil G Bardin, Li Ping Chung, Claude S Farah, Amanda Barnard, Mark S Cooper, Peter G Gibson and John W Upham

Med J Aust 2020; 213 (7): 316-320 Free