Courses

Practical Issues in Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Target audience

Clinicians (pulmonologists)
Physiotherapists
Respiratory Therapists
Nurses

Educational aims

Pulmonary rehabilitation has proven to be an effective therapy in chronic disabled respiratory patients, in particular in COPD. However, still little attention exists regarding the interest of clinicians for rehabilitation. This course may offer a new opportunity to discuss, making the experts (both medical doctors and physiotherapists) interact each other in order to give the participants the most updated messages on why, how and when this treatment should be delivered. All this will be done in keeping with the recent guidelines jointly advocated by the ERS and ATS. Nonetheless, this course will cover a topic never debated (up to now) in the context of ERS school.

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Indications and Rationale M. Decramer (Leuven, Belgium)
Recent insights: from bench to bedside M. Steiner (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Rehabilitation a multidisciplinary team effort S. Singh (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Selecting patients in clinical practice R. Gosselink (Leuven, Belgium)
Maintaining the effects of pulmonary rehabilitation R. Güell (Barcelona, Spain)
Assessment of exercise tolerance S. Singh (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Assessment of muscle function A. van 't Hul (Breda, The Netherlands)
Assessing health related Quality of Life R. Güell (Barcelona, Spain)
Exercise training in harmony with factors limiting performance T. Troosters (Leuven, Belgium)
Resistance training M. Spruit (Horn, The Netherlands)
Inspiratory muscle training R. Gosselink (Leuven, Belgium)
The place of oxygen supplements in rehabilitation E. Clini (Pavullo, Italy)
Pharmacotherapy as an adjunct to rehabilitation M. Steiner (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Nutritional interventions M. Steiner (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Rehabiltation during critical illness (acute exacerbations and ICU) E. Clini (Pavullo, Italy)