Part II: From symptoms to diagnosis in primary care

Primary care session
Chairs: J. Kocks (Groningen, Netherlands), T. Maricoto (Aveiro, Portugal)
Aims: To present how to choose the most effective diagnostic work up and management for common respiratory symptoms.

Respiratory care in different situations: an overview of the epidemiology of respiratory diseases and their (co)morbidity A. Correia De Sousa (Porto, Portugal)
Pharmacotherapy in patients with multi-morbid COPD I. Tsiligianni (Heraklion (Crete), Greece)
The blood (vessels) and the lung: what the general practitioner needs to know about circulation (a bit of heart) and the lungs A. Vonk Noordegraaf (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Methods of managing airway diseases in pregnancy V. Backer (Copenhagen, Denmark)