Target audience
- Pulmonary Physicans
- Thoracic Surgeons
- Anaesthiologists
- Critical Care Physicans
- Trainees in above specialties
- Nurses
- Co-ordinators
- Physiotherapists
Educational aims
This course aims to provide state of the art knowledge in the
following:
- The referral criteria and selection criteria for potential
lung transplant candidates
- The supply, management and selection of suitable donor organs
- The early and long term management issues in care of lung
transplant recipients
- The management of immunosuppression and its side-effects
- The organisational structure, running and funding of a lung
transplant programme