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Podcast: Pre-Hospital Care Podcast
Episode: COPD with Sarah Aldington
Description: In this episode Caroline Philips interviews Sarah Aldington; a Consultant Emergency Physician in Sydney, she is also a pre-hospital & retrieval specialist with Sydney HEMS. Sarah formerly worked in respiratory medicine in the UK before studying her PhD in New Zealand focusing on the prevalence of cannabis smoking induced COPD and lung cancer. Whilst in Wellington Sarah established a choir for COPD patients called 'Sing Your Lungs Out (SYLO)'.Â
In this interview Sarah gives a fantastic insight into advanced lung disease and a patient focused approach to this life limiting illness. Sarah recounts this amazing initiative that t...