PG3 - Respiratory physiology: respiratory and peripheral muscle function in health and disease

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: M. Polkey (London, United Kingdom), A. Schols (Maastricht, The Netherlands)
Aims: This is the third course in a three-year postgraduate core curriculum covering different aspects of respiratory physiology in clinical practice. Participants can attend a single module and earlier modules can be accessed on the ERS e-learning site. The main aims of this third module in the series are:
-to improve the participants' understanding of how respiratory disease affects skeletal muscle function;
-to provide the latest information about the measurement of respiratory and peripheral muscle function;
-to understand how peripheral muscle dysfunction contributes to respiratory morbidity;
-to develop insights into the effective treatment of respiratory and peripheral muscle dysfunction.

Testing respiratory and peripheral muscle performance J. Moxham (London, United Kingdom)
The clinical impact of skeletal muscle dysfunction M. Polkey (London, United Kingdom)