Management of pleural infection in 2018
Symposium Chairs: E. Polverino (Barcelona, Spain), N. Rahman (Oxford, United Kingdom)
Aims: to highlight the increasing incidence of pleural infection across all age groups; to identify validated prognostic scores at presentation and those at highest risk of mortality; to discuss the best radiological investigations in this setting; to summarise the best way of managing medically and surgically these patients; to identify the microbiological spectrum or the disease and best antimicrobials to treat these infections; to summarise the best way to manage paediatric pleural infection.