Clinical grand round: revisiting current guidelines

Grand round
Chairs: O. Usmani (London, United Kingdom), C. Brightling (Leicester (Leicestershire), United Kingdom)
Aims: To describe controversial aspects of the current guidelines in cough, community-acquired pneumonia, surgical resection in lung cancer and pulmonary embolism; to discuss data underpinning non-adherence and alternative approaches to on-going recommendations; to propose evidence-based substitute management recommendations for clinicians; to identify areas of concern and need for further research. Prof. Rodrigo Andres Floto, speaker in this session has received the ERS Research Award in 2015.

Diagnosis and management of community acquired pneumonia in adults T. Welte (Hannover, Germany)
Chronic refractory cough I. Satia (Hamilton (ON), Canada)
Non-tuberculous mycobacteria R. Floto (Cambridge (Cambridgeshire), United Kingdom)
Fitness for radical therapy in lung cancer patients A. Rozman (Golnik, Slovenia)
Acute pulmonary embolism D. Jiménez Castro (Madrid, Spain)