Courses

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