Mini Short Course part 1: Advanced therapies to alter the course of complex COPD

DAY 1

Chaired by: Miss Jenni Wenneberg (Hillingdon), Dr Hnin Aung (Leicester)

11.30am - Lung transplant in COPD - an underrepresented group
Professor Andy Fisher (Newcastle)

12.00pm  - Long term non-invasive ventilation for COPD
Miss Katie Kaiser (Newcastle)

12.30pm - Biologics in COPD
Professor Mona Bafadhel (London)

11:30 AM

90 MINUTE SESSION

Learning outcomes

  • To provide an update on the suitability of lung transplant for COPD and understand referral criteria and outcomes.
  • To update on the current evidence base for long-term NIV as a treatment for complex COPD, to include indications and contraindications.
  • To understand the latest trial data and emerging role biologics will play in the treatment and management of COPD.

Curriculum mapping

  • Internal Medicine CiP 4: Managing patients in an outpatient clinic, ambulatory or community setting (including management of long-term conditions)
  • Specialty CiP 2: Managing integrated respiratory medicine across the primary and secondary care interface including management of long-term disease
  • Specialty CiP 4: Managing the service and patients with respiratory failure in multiple settings including hospital and in the community
  • Specialty CiP 5: Tertiary subspecialties interface: managing patients across the secondary and tertiary interface; in particular patients with lung and heart transplants and pulmonary hypertension
  • Specialty CiP 6: Managing the use of drugs and therapeutic modalities specific to the practice of respiratory medicine