Annual Congress Berlin 2008

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PG14 - COPD: management of advanced disease

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: B. Balbi (Veruno, Italy), C. Löfdahl (Lund, Sweden)
Aims: This is the third course in a three-year postgraduate core curriculum on COPD. Participants can attend a single module and earlier modules in the series can be viewed on the ERS e-learning resources. This last course focuses on severe COPD and will cover important issues related to the management of advanced disease and the care of end-stage patients.
The specific aims of the third module in the series are:
-to discuss indications for oxygen treatment;
-to describe the clinical picture of an acute exacerbation and review its treatment, including mechanical ventilation;
-to review the important issues related to patients with severe, end-stage COPD, including ethical considerations at the end-of-life stage;
-to discuss the role for surgery in and for COPD, including lung transplantation.

Indications for oxygen treatment in COPD M. Morgan (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Managing severe acute exacerbations in COPD, including mechanical ventilation N. Ambrosino (Pisa, Italy)
Severe COPD: home care, palliative treatment and end-of-life issues S. Nava (Pavia, Italy)
Indications and results of surgical intervention in COPD, including lung transplantation D. Van Raemdonck (Leuven, Belgium)