Courses

Target audience

• Practising pulmonologists
• Fellows involved in research on airway inflammation
• Laboratory technicians performing lung function test

Educational aims

• To recognise common and unusual findings in different methods used for monitoring of airway diseases both in adults and children
• To correlate clinical presentation with results of traditional and newly developed methods of monitoring (ie. lung function tests, exhaled breath measurements, induced sputum results)
• To understand more efficiently the relation between the results of lung function tests, markers of airway inflammation/oxidative stress and severity of asthma and COPD
• To gain knowledge on the diagnostic value and utility in diseases monitoring of the different monitoring techniques
• To learn the newest developments in the field of non-invasive ways of assessing airway inflammation and its potential effect on therapy