Bronchiectasis / chronic suppurative lung disease (CSLD)
Adult

Respiratory and Sleep Medicine

Useful Management Information

  • Ongoing treatment requires regular and coordinated primary health care and specialist review, including monitoring for complications and comorbidities. Chest physiotherapy and regular exercise should be encouraged, nutrition optimized, environmental pollutants (including tobacco smoke) avoided, and vaccines administered according to national immunization schedules.

Clinician resources

Patient resources

Minimum Referral Criteria

Does your patient meet the minimum referral criteria?
Category 1 (appointment within 30 calendar days)
  • Chronic bronchiectasis / CSLD with any of the following:
    • recurrent haemoptysis
    • rapidly decreasing exercise tolerance
    • unintentional weight loss
Category 2 (appointment within 90 calendar days)
  • Chronic bronchiectasis / CSLD with frequent (>3 per year) infective exacerbations despite optimal therapy
  • Stable symptomatic chronic bronchiectasis / CSLD
Category 3 (appointment within 365 calendar days)
  • Asymptomatic newly diagnosed or suspected bronchiectasis / CSLD
  • If the patient does not meet the criteria for referral but the referring practitioner believes the patient requires specialist review, a clinical override may be requested:
    • Please explain why (e.g. warning signs or symptoms, clinical modifiers, uncertain about diagnosis, etc.)
  • Please note that your referral may not be accepted or may be redirected to another service.

Essential Referral Information

  • History of the disease including duration, severity and frequency of exacerbations
  • Management to date
  • Medications including previously tried medications if associated with treatment failure or problems
  • Results of previous sputum cultures
  • Results of previous chest CT (not during an exacerbation)

If a specific test result is unable to be obtained due to access, financial, religious, cultural or consent reasons a Clinical Override may be requested. This reason must be clearly articulated in the body of the referral.

Additional Referral Information

  • History of childhood respiratory infections (e.g. Whooping cough)
  • Family history of cystic fibrosis
  • Presence of cor-pulmonale or sinus disease
  • FBC
  • ESR
  • Immunoglobulins with IgG and sub class results
  • Chest X-Ray
  • Spirometry
Last updated 16 July 2021

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Internal Referrals

Respiratory (E-Blueslips)
Sleep Clinic Adult (E-Blueslips)

Fax

(07) 5687 4497

Post

Booking and Referral Centre
Gold Coast University Hospital
1 Hospital Boulevard
Southport QLD 4215

Enquiries

1300 559 083

Related HealthPathways

No directly related pathways found

Service Availability

Dr Maninder Singh
Medical Director Respiratory and Sleep Medicine

Facilities

Gold Coast University Hospital
Robina Hospital

If you would like to send a named referral, please address it to the specialist listed above, who will allocate a suitably qualified specialist to see the patient. Alternatively, you can view a full list of our specialists.

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