Managing frailty in patients with acute or chronic lung disorders

Symposium
Chairs: A. Simonds (London, United Kingdom), T. Troosters (Leuven, Belgium)
Aims: To define frailty and its association with various chronic and acute lung disease; to determine the biology underlying frailty in humans and animals; to describe a clear rationale for early mobilisation/rehabilitation in frail patients; and to evaluate rehabilitative interventions to reverse frailty.

Diagnosing management and measures of frailty M. Cesari (Milan, Italy)
Skeletal muscle stem cells and capillaries; important neighbours in muscle tissue of COPD patients T. Snijders (Maastricht, Netherlands)
Frailty during and after hospitalisation M. Herridge (Toronto (ON), Canada)
Frailty in chronic lung disorders L. Lahousse (Ghent, Belgium)
Rehabilitative interventions to reverse frailty M. Maddocks (London, United Kingdom)