Mini Short Course part 2: Managing advanced breathlessness in complex COPD

DAY 1

Chaired by: Dr Samuel Kemp (Nottingham) and Dr Abigail MacKintosh (Stoke on Trent)

2.30pm - Lung volume reduction (LVR): expanding treatments for reducing lungs in COPD
Dr Tom Ward (Leicester)

3.00pm - Palliative care, what works and what doesn't
Professor Irene Higginson OBE (London)

3.30pm - Pulmonary rehabilitation in the post-pandemic era
Dr Enya Daynes (Leicester)

2:30 PM

90 MINUTE SESSION

Looking at how LVR is being used to as a treatment and discuss the patient cohorts that may gain most benefit.
To understand what high-quality integrated palliative care involves and how it can best be delivered.
To update on data on the provision of PR and discuss the benefits to patients and ways to improve referral and uptake.

Curriculum mapping

Internal Medicine CiP 4: Managing patients in an outpatient clinic, ambulatory or community setting (including management of long-term conditions)
Internal Medicine CiP 8: Managing end of life and applying palliative care skills
Specialty CiP 2: Managing integrated respiratory medicine across the primary and secondary care interface including management of long-term disease
Practical procedures (respiratory medicine): Thoracic surgical procedures