Respiratory Medicine Update for General Practitioners

Contenido de curso
2 day update on respiratory medicine, organised to address difficult issues met in primary care and offer practical solutions.
Topics include: more accurate diagnosis and treatment of lung disease and cough, management of asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, smoking cessation, paediatric lung disorders, work related lung disorders, obstructive sleep apnoea syndrome and lung cancer.
Also Bronchiectasis, Pulmonary arterio-venous malformations, pneumonia and Fibrotic lung diseases.

Objetivos de formación
Emphasis on interaction and practice with data interpretation, such as spirometry and on writing personal asthma and COPD action plans, and a session on “Cases from the Chest Clinic”.

Organizador local
National Heart and Lung Institute

Ms. Karina Dixon