Kennebec Region Health Alliance
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Pulmonology - Kennebec Region Health Alliance
COPD Guidelines
Lung Screening Guidelines
Lung Cancer Screening using Low Dose CT Guidelines
Author: Barbara Wiggin, Manager Cardiology and Nuclear Medicine Services, MGMC
8/26/16
Summary:
In 2014 MaineGeneral diagnosed and treated 1,118 patients with malignancies. Lung CA is our second highest CA with low detection at stages 0 and I when it is easy to treat and prognosis much better for our patients. The 5 yr survival rate at for Stage 1 = 60-80% and at stage III and IV is 10% or less. As we’ve seen with other cancers a strong screening process can make a difference
Lung Screening Assesment Categories
Shortness of Breath
Outpatient Evaluation of Shortness of Breath
Author: Daniel C. Doornbos MD, FCCP
January 23, 2016
Revised August 16, 2016
Summary: Shortness of Breath (SOB, also referred to as dyspnea) is an extremely common symptom complex that is encountered on nearly a daily basis by active practitioners. Some causes of dyspnea are simple and obvious to even cursory inspection, but other patients may have either no obvious source of dyspnea or may have several causes that are able to cause dyspnea with no one process necessarily obviously “the cause” of every episode of shortness of breath.