PG13 Core Curriculum Postgraduate Course: Interventional pulmonology
Postgraduate CourseChairs: C. Bolliger (Cape Town, South Africa), S. Gasparini (Ancona, Italy)
Aims: The aim of the course is to provide the basis of the main diagnostic and therapeutic interventional procedures utilised in the field of respiratory diseases. At the end of this course, participants will be able to recognise the indications, the possibilities, the limits and technical aspects of diagnostic flexible bronchoscopy, new technologies applied to thoracic endoscopy, therapeutical bronchoscopy and medical thoracoscopy.
HERMES SYLLABUS LINKS: D.2.10 Pleuroscopy (medical thoracoscopy), D.2.11 Flexible bronchoscopy, D.2.13 Transbronchial needle aspiration, D.2.14 Endobronchial ultrasound, D.2.17 Rigid bronchoscopy, D.2.18 Interventional bronchoscopic techniques including fluorescence bronchoscopy, brachytherapy, endobronchial radiotherapy, afterloading laser and electrocoagulation cryotherapy, photodynamic therapy, airway stents.
TYPE OF COURSE: Case based