When to look for signs of IPF
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When to look for signs of IPF

Wendy Preston @WendyPresto RCN head of nursing and a respiratory nurse specialist

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis is a condition that many clinicians will rarely encounter, and while there’s no cure, there are new treatments

More people die from idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis than are killed on the roads each year, but few nurses or doctors have much experience of the disease.

Nursing Standard. 32, 7, 29-29. doi: 10.7748/ns.32.7.29.s28

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