Annual Congress Barcelona 2010

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PG5 Postgraduate Course: Interventional thoracoscopy

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: D. Subotic (Belgrade, Republic of Serbia), C. Marquette (Nice, France)
Aims: This course will provide an overview of pleural problems. It will offer an update on diagnosis and treatment of pleural effusion, pleurodesis techniques and pneumothorax treatment. The course will also provide information on surgical techniques for basic pleural drainage.

HERMES SYLLABUS LINKS: D.2.10 Pleuroscopy (medical thoracoscopy), D.2.11 Flexible bronchoscopy, D.2.17 Rigid bronchoscopy, D.2.13 Transbronchial needle aspiration, D.2.14 Endobronchial ultrasound, D.2.18 Interventional bronchoscopic techniques including fluorescence bronchoscopy, brachytherapy, endobronchial radiotherapy, afterloading laser and electrocoagulation cryotherapy, photodynamic therapy, airway stents.

TYPE OF COURSE: Lecture based

Dealing with diagnosis of benign and malignant pleural effusions J. Janssen (Nijmegen, The Netherlands)
Treatment of spontaneous pneumothorax G. Cardillo (Rome, Italy)
Management of empyema R. Davies (Oxford, United Kingdom)
Videothoracoscopy: "medical" and surgical E. Canalis (Barcelona, Spain)