Annual Congress Barcelona 2010

Saturday, 18.09.2010
Sunday, 19.09.2010
Monday, 20.09.2010
Tuesday, 21.09.2010
Wednesday, 22.09.2010

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2010; 36: Suppl. 54, abstract number.


Material from 2010:
  • 4910 Abstracts
  • 646 Slide presentations
  • 250 Webcasts
  • 97 Handouts
  • 2124 e-posters
  • 250 Multimedia files
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PG13 Core Curriculum Postgraduate Course: Interventional pulmonology

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: C. Bolliger (Cape Town, South Africa), S. Gasparini (Ancona, Italy)
Aims: The aim of the course is to provide the basis of the main diagnostic and therapeutic interventional procedures utilised in the field of respiratory diseases. At the end of this course, participants will be able to recognise the indications, the possibilities, the limits and technical aspects of diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy, new technologies applied to thoracic endoscopy, therapeutical bronchoscopy and medical thoracoscopy.

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

TYPE OF COURSE: Case based
Sampling techniques in bronchoscopy: the role of forceps, brush, washing, BAL and needles
P. Kunst (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
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Rapid on Site Cytological Evaluation (ROSE) in bronchoscopy: the role of pulmonologist
S. Gasparini (Ancona, Italy)
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New technologies in bronchoscopy: which are still research tools and which are ready for clinical use?
F. Herth (Heidelberg, Germany)
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Therapeutical bronchoscopy: new techniques for obstructive lung diseases
A. Ernst (Brookline, United States of America)
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