Annual Congress Vienna 2012

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The updated ATS/ERS statement on pulmonary rehabilitation - update from the ATS/ERS Task Force

Hot topics
Chairs: E. Clini (Modena, Italy), F. Pitta (Londrina, Brazil)
Aims: At the end of the session, the participant will be able to understand:
- the organisation of a state-of-the-art about pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with chronic respiratory disease;
- how to organise state-of-the-art pulmonary rehabilitation for patients with chronic respiratory disease;
- the patient-centered outcomes of pulmonary rehabilitation;
- the different interventions of pulmonary rehabilitation (exercise training, nutritional modulation, self-management strategies and psychosocial interventions);
- and the positive effects of pulmonary rehabilitation.

New definition of pulmonary rehabilitation M.A. Spruit (Horn, The Netherlands)
Behaviour change and collaborative self-management strategies during pulmonary rehabilitation C. Garvey (San Francisco, United States of America)
Patient-centred outcomes of pulmonary rehabilitation R. ZuWallack (Hartford, United States of America)