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How do you decide when to use acid-suppressive medications for GI prophylaxis when patients are on prolonged corticosteroid therapy?

Do you prescribe it universally or based on specific risk factors?

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How do you decide between anticoagulation and observation for an incidentally detected subsegmental pulmonary embolism in elderly patients with a history of gastrointestinal bleeding?

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How do you counsel patients who are concerned that discontinuation of certain chronic medications may actually perpetuate suffering at the end of life?

Do you ever continue medications such as rate-control agents for tachyarrhythmias, anticoagulation for blood clots, immunosuppression to prevent trans...

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What is the minimum daily duration of supplemental oxygen therapy you recommend to patients with chronic hypoxic respiratory failure?

Do findings from the REDOX Trial comparing 24 vs 15 hours of supplemental oxygen influence your approach?

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Do you avoid use of inhalers with milk protein in patients with a milk allergy?

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Is Metformin contraindicated in patients using long term oxygen therapy at home?

Liang et al., PMID 35900801

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Are there preferred home exercise programs for patients without access to pulmonary rehabilitation?

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Do you use prednisone in the management of patients with persistent respiratory symptoms following acute COVID-19 infection?

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What is your approach to counseling a patient with exertional hypoxia, but normal resting oxygen saturation, who is hesitant to use supplemental oxygen therapy?

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The Journal of allergy and clinical immunology, 2004 Mar

Contamination of dry powder inhalers for asthma with milk proteins containing lactose.

Journal of clinical medicine, 2022 Dec 10

Lactose-Containing Dry-Powder Inhalers for Patients with Cow's Milk Protein Allergy-The Conundrum; A National Survey of Pediatric Pulmonologists and Allergologists.

The New England journal of medicine, 2024 Sep 10

Long-Term Oxygen Therapy for 24 or 15 Hours per Day in Severe Hypoxemia.

Annals of internal medicine, 2021 Nov 23

Risk for Recurrent Venous Thromboembolism in Patients With Subsegmental Pulmonary Embolism Managed Without Anticoagulation : A Multicenter Prospective Cohort Study.

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