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The course will focus on practical clinical management (in non-CF patients) and supporting the adoption of best practice across services. Quality improvement and enhanced patient outcomes will therefore be central to the course aims, with a specific focus to include MDT set-up, audit and service planning, as well as hearing the perspectives of an NTM patient. The course will include interactive case-based discussion to ensure that its content is practical, relevant and accessible to delegates. The course will be delivered by a multidisciplinary faculty of experts who are specialists at managing NTM and will be drawn from centres and services across the UK.
The course is for health care providers who want to increase their knowledge of NTM management, including senior staff and trainees in respiratory medicine and infectious diseases, TB and respiratory nurses and nurses in allied specialities, respiratory physiotherapists, dietitians, psychologists and pharmacists involved with NTM care.
Participants will achieve the following learning outcomes:
- Understand the basic biology, immunology, and epidemiology of NTM disease
- Understand the clinical pathways for diagnosis and management of NTM
- Gain insight of dealing effectively with common and rarer issues that arise during treatment for NTM and how to seek help in managing highly complex patients
- Understand how service improvement, audit, and MDT design can help improve NTM care delivery
- Understand the psycho-social issues and support required for patients during treatment
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9:00am - 9:10am Welcome and introduction 9:10am - 9:30am Warm up quiz 9.30am – 9.45am Living with NTM; a patient’s perspective 9:45am - 10:30am NTM; natural history and epidemiology Learning objectives for session:
- Natural history and evolution of NTM
- Epidemiology of NTM species
- Biology of the organisms
10:30am - 10:50am Screen break 10:50am - 11:35am NTM; presentation and diagnosis
Learning objectives for session:- NTM infection vs NTM disease
- Delays to care and referral pathways
- Clinical, microbiological and radiological diagnosis of NTM disease
- New diagnostics in microbiology and immunology
- Role of reference laboratory and WGS
11:35am - 12:15pm Principles of NTM management
Learning objectives for session:- Treatment decisions – patient information and choice, therapeutic options
- Criteria for starting antimicrobial treatment
- Non pharmacological treatment options
12.15pm - 1.00pm Lunch
1pm - 1:50pm Drug treatment of NTM
Learning objectives for session:- Evidence based guidance for drug regimens for different species in NTM-PD
- Role of iv/nebulised amikacin
- New therapeutic options and clinical trials
1:50pm - 2:20pm MDT approach to NTM care
Learning objectives for session:- Role of the MDT in NTM care – key issues in nursing, physiotherapy, dietetics
- Service delivery
- Audit and service improvement
2:20pm - 2:35pm Screen break
2:35pm - 3:35pm Managing NTM – complex cases 1
Combined learning objectives for complex cases 1 and 2:- Fungal/other co-infection
- Management in the elderly with other co-morbidities
- Drug interactions
- Therapeutic drug monitoring / monitoring for toxicity
- Adverse drug effects – what to do when the patient cannot tolerate treatment
- Severe drug reactions
- Monitoring treatment response and patient outcomes
- Treatment failure/relapse/resistant disease
- NTM requiring surgery
- Extrapulmonary disease
3:35pm - 3:45pm Screen break
3:45pm - 4:45pm Managing NTM – complex cases 2
4:45pm - 5:00pm Closing summary
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Fees
BTS Members: £190
Non-members: £380
Payment options
We accept payment by credit/debit card or invoice. If your employer is paying on your behalf, you can book online and choose the ‘Pay by invoice’ payment option.
To issue an invoice, which we only do to finance departments, not individuals, we will require a Purchase Order Form sent to us at least two weeks prior to the event. If this is not received, we will have to cancel your place.
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