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Respiratory Medicine and Surgery current awareness bulletin

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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)

May 2025

12 SQ-HDM SLIT for treating allergic rhinitis and allergic asthma caused by house dust mites (new NICE guideline TA1045)

Associations between life-course FEV1/FVC trajectories and respiratory symptoms up to middle age

Augmenting clinical trials in asthma through digital technology, decentralised designs, and person-centric endpoints: opportunities and challenges

Burden of RSV infections among young children in primary care: a prospective cohort study in five European countries (2021–23)

Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease: a narrative synthesis of its hallmarks for palliative care clinicians

Effect of pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with long COVID-19: a systematic review and meta-analysis of randomized controlled trials

Food insecurity is associated with current asthma, wheeze, and lung function in children and adults

Health‐related quality of life in asthma measured by the World Health Organization brief questionnaire (WHO‐BREF) and the effect of concomitant allergic rhinitis—a population‐based study

Idiopathic inflammatory myopathies related lung disease in adults

Mucolytics for children with chronic suppurative lung disease (new Cochrane intervention review)

New insights on continuous renal replacement therapy for acute respiratory distress syndrome

Polygenic risk score added to conventional case finding to identify undiagnosed chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Predicting benefit from adjuvant therapy with corticosteroids in community-acquired pneumonia

Prognostic implications of regional lung impairment evaluation in quantitative computed tomography imaging of COVID-19

Psittacosis outbreak in Europe: a concern for public health

Respiratory benefits of multisetting air purification in children: a cluster randomized crossover trial

Sex as a prognostic factor for mortality in adults with acute symptomatic pulmonary embolism (new Cochrane prognosis review)

Trajectories of airflow limitation from childhood to early adulthood: an analysis of six population-based birth cohorts

Truenat MTB assays for pulmonary tuberculosis and rifampicin resistance in adults and adolescents (new Cochrane diagnostic review)

Sources

Clinical Radiology (Feb); Clinical Respiratory Journal, The (Feb-Mar); European Journal of Internal Medicine (Mar); JAMA (Mar); JAMA Pediatrics (Feb); Lancet Child & Adolescent Health, The (Mar); Lancet Respiratory Medicine, The (Feb-Mar); NICE website (Mar); Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease (Mar)

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