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So joining myself in the studio today, we have Tom Greensmith, one of our lecturers here in emergency critical care at the RVC.

Thank you, Tom, for coming in.

Not a problem.

And what we're going to talk about is As in mania. And I think that we probably as a service see quite often, yet there's probably not a huge amount of information really on it.

Would that be fair enough? Yeah, no I think that's right. I mean,

we see it every day. So if I, would you mind just sort of briefly going over what your

understanding is, I suppose, of the pathogenesis of aspiration, pneumonia, like how, how patients might

get this and what patients might be

predisposed, please? Yes, certainly. So I suppose, first off, we have to kind of decide whether

we're talking about pneumonia or pneumonitis, which in humans they will actually sort of separate

out. We're far worse, I think, at separating the two apart,

and we kind of lump everything in as an aspiration pneumonia, but anumonitis, essentially just inflammation of the lung parenkoma,

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