Noninvasive ventilation: what nonintensivists should know

2017-01-13

Andreas Freitag

This lecture was recorded at the 2nd McMaster International Review Course in Internal Medicine in Kraków, Poland. To learn more, visit www.mircim.eu.

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Current management of tuberculosis: key messages for clinical practice A lecture by Prof. Lori Whitehead, from McMaster University, Canada, delivered at McMaster International Review Course in Internal Medicine in Kraków in May 2016.
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Extrapulmonary TB: discrepancies in prevalence between the EU and individual countries Extrapulmonary TB constitutes <6% of all TB cases in Poland. This number is much below the EU average, which is about 22%. What might be the reasons for such a discrepancy, given that the prevalence of TB in Poland is about 18/100,000 and is significantly higher than in most EU countries? Could this mean that many cases of extrapulmonary TB are underdiagnosed in Poland?

Noninvasive ventilation: what nonintensivists should know

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