PG1 Interventional pulmonology procedures: best practice

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: S. Gasparini (Ancona, Italy), F. Herth (Heidelberg, Germany)
Aims: To illustrate and discuss the technical aspects of some of the most common interventional pulmonology procedures including: EBUS-TBNA and EUS-FNA, airway stenting, endobronchial valves for emphysema treatment, and medical thoracoscopy. At the end of this course participants will know, in detail, the best way to perform the procedures.

HERMES module link: ADULT - D.2 Other procedures.

EBUS-TBNA and EUS-FNA: how do I do it? C. Dooms (Leuven, Belgium)
Airway stenting: how do I do it? H. Dutau (Marseille, France)
Endobronchial valves for emphysema treatment: how do I do it and in which patients? R. Eberhardt (Heidelberg, Germany)
Medical thoracoscopy: how do I do it? G. Tassi (Gussago, Italy)