Annual Congress Vienna 2009

Saturday, 12.09.2009
Sunday, 13.09.2009
Monday, 14.09.2009
Tuesday, 15.09.2009
Wednesday, 16.09.2009

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2009; 34: Suppl. 53, abstract number.

Material from 2009:

4047 Abstracts
652 Slide presentations
300 Webcasts
93 Handouts
2150 e-posters
300 Multimedia files

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PG20 State of the art in pulmonary rehabilitation

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: I. Vogiatzis (Athens, Greece), T. Troosters (Leuven, Belgium)
Aims: Pulmonary rehabilitation has grown out of its infancy. This course aims at: researchers in pulmonary rehabilitation to the important research questions for the next decade; getting insight into concepts that may be relevant to pulmonary rehabilitation from world experts outside the field (doping behavioral); and focusing on newly available methods to tackle clinical and research questions for both clinicians and scientists in this field.

HERMES syllabus links: A.1.3: Physiology; B.1.4: COPD; E.1.14: Pulmonary rehabilitation; F.6: Multidisciplinary teamwork; I.6: Psychological consequences of chronic respiratory disease.
Type of course: Lecture based and evidence based.
Level: Intermediate.

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Pulmonary rehabilitation, where do we come from and where do we go to? R. Casaburi (Rancho Palos Verdes, Ca, United States of America)
Research methodology in exercise training: on exercise and muscles L. Puente Maestu (Madrid, Spain)
Lessons from sports medicine: can we give our patients ‘doping’? M. Steiner (Leicester, United Kingdom)
Lessons from behavioral medicine: improving patients function beyond the rehabilitation programme M. De Greef (Groningen, Netherlands)