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June 2022 - a complaint, primary care spirometry, paracetamol and frailty, serotonin syndrome
In this podcast, James Cave (Editor-in-Chief) and David Phizackerley (Deputy Editor) provide an overview of the June 2022 issue of DTB. They discuss the impact that the cessation of spirometry services in primary care has had on diagnosing obstructive lung disease (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/60/6/82). They highlight two separate patient safety incident reports from the Healthcare Safety Investigation Branch - confusion over the prescribed dose of oral morphine solution and the harm caused by a standard therapeutic dose of paracetamol in a frail older person (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/60/6/84). The editors also talk about an article on serotonin syndrome (https://dtb.bmj.com/content/60/6/88). Please subscribe to the DTB podcast to get episodes automatically downloaded to your mobile device and computer. Also, please consider leaving us a review or a comment on the DTB Podcast iTunes podcast page (https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dtb-podcast/id307773309). Thank you for listening.
Read the June issue: https://dtb.bmj.com/content/60/6