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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- Dyspnea, or shortness of breath, is one of the most common and distressing symptoms that can be experienced following a COVID infection. Dr. Mark Fenton, lung specialist and researcher, will present an update on the latest scientific evidence about this important breathing symptom. A study currently underway in Saskatchewan is assessing lung function and exercise capacity in people who experience shortness of breath following a COVID infection. Dr. Donna Goodridge, professor and researcher, will provide an overview of the study and also how people can become involved.
About The Presenters:
Dr. Fenton was born and raised in Saskatoon. He did an undergraduate, Masters and medical degree at the University of Saskatchewan. He first trained in Internal Medicine and later Respirology. Dr. Fenton also completed fellowships in Lung Transplantation and Sleep Medicine. He is currently the Director of the Lung Transplant Program, Medical Director of the Sleep Disorders Centre, and Program Director of the Respirology Training Program at the University of Saskatchewan and Royal University Hospital in Saskatoon. If anyone from Saskatchewan is in need of, or has had a lung transplant, they will know Dr. Fenton. He is well loved by his patients and often described as personable, caring and dedicated to helping others.
Dr. Goodridge is a Professor in the Division of Respirology, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine, University of Saskatchewan. She was the Co-Chair of the Canadian Thoracic Society (CTS) COPD Clinical Assembly from 2011 until April of 2018 and is a member of the CTS Choosing Wisely Task Force. Dr. Goodridge is a co-Director of the Foundations undergraduate Respiratory Module in the College of Medicine at the University of Saskatchewan. She has received extensive training in realist evaluative approaches and mixed methods and uses these methodologies in current projects related to improving health service delivery. She recently received funding for a research project designed to better help people with advanced COPD work as a partner with their physicians to achieve their health-related goals and priorities. She has a research interest in how mindfulness-based approach may improve the wellness of people with respiratory illnesses. Dr. Goodridge is a member of the Steering Committee of Age-Friendly and works closely with members of the Saskatoon Council on Aging and other community-based groups. She is also the Director of the Respiratory Research Centre at the University of Saskatchewan.
For the nurse who is moderating this interview, please be more sensitive when you ask the panel that dyspnea could potentially be nerves. As a long covid sufferer myself & clinician, this illness is real & i will not wish it on my worst enemy with level III - IV ADL . Just because research data is not yet available & the typical disease algorithm on an established illness is not yet there does not mean it does not exist & it is only in your head
I hope you address clots, micro clots and vascular inflammation.
I went 12 months with shortness of breath & as I am asthmatic got fobbed off & said it’s anxiety.
I finally saw a lung specialist & she sent me off for a VQ scan.
I have clots in my lungs & leg, all from Vax damage.
How has it gone?
Had Covid in October 2023. SOB started three months later. Lung Xray, D-Dimer, and CT scan w/o contrast all showed normal. Spirometry normal and PFT normal. My pulmonary specialist doens't think I have Long Covid since I recovered 'initially'. However, what about virus reactivation? Is this possible? I've had SOB for over 3 months. The only anomally I had is my blood oxygen saturation dipped to 85% but then recovered. Since my tests have been negative so far, a CT with contrast was ordered as well as a sniff test to see how my diaphragm is functioning. Oh...I used inhalers and on my PFT the blue inhaler opened my lungs up an extra 3% becaue my lungs were already 'open'. So, this SOB is still a mystery and I can no longer exercise like I was, so I take it easy daily. My physio guy told me to use my recumbent bike for 5 minutes per day and work my way up...carefully. Re by blow out air, it was over 100%...but I have dyspnea.
Any updates? I’ve had a smilar trajectory and results as you.
Cold air is definitely a trigger for asthma
When shortness of breath during moderate walking exercise kicks in: I don’t think it is normal for me where the effort to breathe is harder than the effort to do the moderate walking. I am post covid infection times 5 weeks.
1:01:58 Thank you very much! Been struggling with coughing breathing since the very beginning. Still using bronchodilators but no asthma or coughing for about 3 months now. ❤
This doc knows his stuff! Everything he said was spot on especially with sob…. Never was told it could be the muscles! My heart supposedly was good on a EKG and echo .. PFT, CT scan shows no damage to lungs but, my muscles are hurting just recently! ❤❤
Micro lung embolia can induce dispneea
It happened to me I was told I have asthma now
Breath work & chair yoga is good.
Did we know at what tissue temperature did SARS COV2 better replicate ?
Why ?
Because at TWiV 659 at min29 virologist Christian Drosten suggest that SARS COV2 better replicate at very low tissue temperature.
Did after SARS COV2 infection cryoglobuline like antibody occur ?