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Respiratory Medicine and Surgery current awareness bulletin

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November 2025

Are acute asthma presentations to the emergency department an opportunity for optimising long-term management? A qualitative study on beliefs and behaviours of healthcare professionals

Associations of fire smoke and other pollutants with incident rheumatoid arthritis and rheumatoid arthritis–associated interstitial lung disease

Asthma: diagnosis, monitoring, and chronic asthma management: summary of guidance from BTS/NICE/SIGN

Changes in early respiratory tract microecology associated with neonatal respiratory distress syndrome

COVID-19 infection raises respiratory type-2 inflammatory disease risk, whereas vaccination is protective (pre-print)

Digital technologies to deliver pulmonary rehabilitation programmes for adults with COPD: early value assessment (updated NICE guidance HTE18)

Digital technologies to support self-management of COPD: early value assessment (updated NICE guidance HTE19)

The effectiveness of maternal influenza vaccination in protecting neonates from respiratory infections

Inhaled or nebulised salbutamol for exacerbations of asthma and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease?

Long-term impact of COVID-19 in patients with lung cancer receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors: a multicenter cohort study during Omicron pandemic

Overall survival with neoadjuvant nivolumab plus chemotherapy in lung cancer

Palliative management of breathlessness

Peripheral biomarker signatures in rheumatoid arthritis–associated interstitial lung disease

Pneumonia: diagnosis and management – NICE guidance: NG250 (new); QS110 (updated)

Reform and remedy for imprecision and inequity — ending the race-based evaluation of occupational pulmonary impairment

Respiratory rate as a predictor of clinical deterioration and mortality: a scoping review

Respiratory viral infections awaken metastatic breast cancer cells in lungs

The role of maternal microbiota in shaping neonatal immunity: implications for infectious disease prevention

Suspected acute respiratory infection in over 16s: assessment at first presentation and initial management (updated NICE guidance NG237)

Tarlatamab for extensive-stage small-cell lung cancer after 2 or more treatments (new NICE guidance TA1091)

Tarlatamab in small-cell lung cancer after platinum-based chemotherapy

Vaping and harm in young people: umbrella review

Sources

Acta Anaesthesiologica Scandinavica (Sep); Arthritis & Rheumatology (Jul-Aug); Australian Journal of General Practice (Aug); BMJ (Jul); BMC Infectious Diseases (Sep); Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease (Aug); Emergency Medicine Journal (Sep); Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, The (Jul); Nature (Jul); NEJM (Jul-Aug); NICE website (Aug-Sep); Tobacco Control (Aug)

September 2025

Advances in management of pulmonary fibrosis

As-needed albuterol–budesonide in mild asthma

Atezolizumab for adjuvant treatment of resected non-small-cell lung cancer (new NICE guideline TA1071)

Automated versus non‐automated weaning for reducing the duration of mechanical ventilation for critically ill adults and children (updated Cochrane intervention review)

Connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung disease: an approach to treatment amidst an expanding evidence base

Elevated toxic element emissions from popular disposable e-cigarettes: sources, life cycle, and health risks

Evaluating general practitioners' focused lung ultrasound competence and findings in patients with suspected community-acquired pneumonia in general practice

Inactivated mycobacterial vaccine nebulized inhalation: an effective therapy for the prevention and treatment of respiratory diseases?

Long-term mortality from imaging-diagnosed pulmonary embolism in women and men

Low‐complexity manual nucleic acid amplification tests for pulmonary tuberculosis in children (new Cochrane diagnostic review)

Lung ultrasound as a tool for analysis of ventilation in children with respiratory failure

Maternal asthma during pregnancy and risks of allergy and asthma in progeny: a systematic review and meta-analysis

A multidimensional diagnostic approach for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Navigational bronchoscopy or transthoracic needle biopsy for lung nodules

Non–cystic fibrosis bronchiectasis in adults: a review

Non‐invasive respiratory support in preterm infants as primary mode: a network meta‐analysis (new Cochrane intervention review)

Peripheral venous blood gas analysis for the diagnosis of respiratory failure, hypercarbia and metabolic disturbance in adults (new Cochrane diagnostic review)

Postextubation use of non‐invasive respiratory support in preterm infants: a network meta‐analysis (new Cochrane intervention review)

Precision exercise effect on fatigue and function in lung cancer surgery: a randomized clinical trial

Radiomics for lung cancer diagnosis, management, and future prospects

Reducing inhaler-related greenhouse gas emissions

Small cell lung cancer: a review (JAMA)

Sustained versus standard inflations during neonatal resuscitation to prevent mortality and improve respiratory outcomes (updated Cochrane intervention review)

Tailoring non-invasive respiratory supports in acute hypoxemic respiratory failure: a practical approach for clinicians

Weight loss and asthma control: a systematic review of randomized controlled trials

Zongertinib in previously treated HER2-mutant non–small-cell lung cancer

Sources

ACS Central Science (Jun); BJOG (Jul); Clinical Imaging (Jun); Clinical Radiology (Jul); Clinical Respiratory Journal, The (Jun-Jul); Cochrane Library (Jun-Jul); European Journal of Internal Medicine (Jul); Internal Medicine Journal (Jun-Jul); JAMA (May-Jul); JAMA Surgery (May); Journal of Clinical Ultrasound (Jun); NEJM (May-Jul); Obesity Reviews (Jul); Scandinavian Journal of Primary Health Care (Jun)

July 2025

Clinical utility of limited channel sleep studies versus polysomnography for obstructive sleep apnoea (new Cochrane intervention review)

COVID-19 severity and risk of SARS-CoV-2-associated asthma exacerbation by time since booster vaccination: a longitudinal analysis of data from the COVIDENCE UK study

Effects of physical exercises in asthma: an umbrella review of systematic review and meta-analysis

Efficacy of early pulmonary rehabilitation in severe and critically ill COVID-19 patients

Estimated worldwide variation and trends in incidence of lung cancer by histological subtype in 2022 and over time: a population-based study

Future treatment paradigms in pulmonary arterial hypertension: a personal view from physicians, health authorities, and patients

Global, regional, and national burden of asthma and atopic dermatitis, 1990–2021, and projections to 2050: a systematic analysis of the Global Burden of Disease Study 2021

Glucose-lowering medications and risk of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations in patients with type 2 diabetes

Implication of admission eosinophil count and prognosis of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in elderly patients with COPD: a territory-wide cohort study

In-hospital outcomes and 6-month follow-up results of patients supported with extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for COVID-19 from the second wave to the end of the pandemic (EuroECMO-COVID): a prospective, international, multicentre, observational study

Lung microbiome in autoimmune-associated interstitial lung disease

Molnupiravir for treating COVID-19 (new NICE guideline TA1056)

Positive airway pressure therapy and all‐cause and cardiovascular mortality in people with obstructive sleep apnoea: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomised controlled trials and confounder-adjusted, non-randomised controlled studies

Post-tuberculosis lung disease: towards prevention, diagnosis, and care

Psychological intervention in severe asthma: from theory to practice

Schoolchildren with asthma face different risks at different ages

Upper respiratory microbiome in vasculitis

Worsening asthma at school is associated with poor psychosocial well-being

Sources

BMC Pulmonary Medicine (Apr); BMJ, The (Apr); BMJ Open Respiratory Research (May); Clinical Respiratory Journal, The (Apr-May); Cochrane Library (Apr-May); European Respiratory Journal (May); JAMA Internal Medicine (Apr); Lancet Respiratory Medicine, The (Apr-May); NICE website (Apr); Rheumatic Disease Clinics of North America (May)

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