PULMO WebLinks

USEFUL WEBLINKS 

Bronchiectasis self-care guide from Eur Lung Foundation

https://europeanlung.org/en/news-and-blog/bronchiectasis-self-care-guide-launched-this-world-bronchiectasis-day/

http://www.hon.ch  is a medical information portal that has a search engine for over 30,000 medical subjects. 

http://www.orpha.net assists searcher on rare diseases. You may try this for your queries. 

http://www.endolung.com should be helpful when looking for images, microscopy slide, endoscopy findings (but at the moment english version is under construction - and is available only in French)

Below is an  education guide from the European Lung Foundation BREATHE  Dec 2008 

The following sites http://www.diagnosticimaging.com/radiology-education and

http://www.radiologyinfo.org

are sites that can help you in searching things about various radiology procedures and therapies.

 This website addresses air travel issues:

http://airtravel.european-lung-foundation.org 

and it provides helpful tips for those traveliing with lung diseases.Related to this, this next website provides good info for those traveling with portable oxygen

http://www.accpstorage.org/newOrganization/patients/TravelingwithOxygen.pdf

 http://flywithoxygen.efanet.org is a very good site to start exploring this issue. Pre-departure preparations, etc are discussed.

 http://www.europeanlung.org/en/lung-disease-and-information/air-travel/airline-index/ is another extremely helpful site when considering air travel for those with medical oxygen. Fitness to fly and airline index which allows POCs (Portable oxygen concentrators) are identified.

 Some lung cancer patients simply would not want any knife slicing their chest, or radiation hitting their lungs or medications getting into their blood. Regardless of whatever reason they may have, they simply would not want nay of those. So , is there any way we can help theses patients? Maybe. Below is a recent article on Radio Frequency Ablation for lung cancer:

Below are audio files of interesting topics I hear every now and then. They are properties of AudioDigest foundation and in no circumstances are claimed by this website. you may go to theri website to check for new free downloads.