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Course Objectives This course is designed for the practicing Pulmonologist and Chest Surgeon, as well as other health care professionals interested in the topic. The course is intentionally limited to a small number of participants to allow for maximum benefit of small groups in the handson sessions. The objective of the course is to review pertinent pleural physiology and minimally invasive procedures useful in the diagnosis and therapeutic intervention of pleural diseases. At the conclusion, participants will have a good understanding of the work-up of pleural effusions, the indications, contraindications and patient selection for procedures such as closed pleural biopsy, pleural manometry, chest tube placement, PleurX catheter management and medical thoracoscopy. All procedures will have been practiced on animal models. The objectives of this course include: • review principles of pleural disease • review the continuum of invasive work-up of pleural diseases • obtain skills to perform pleuroscopy Accreditation Harvard Medical School is accredited by the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education (ACCME) to provide continuing medical education for physicians. Harvard Medical School designates the Complete Course for a maximum of 12.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM , and Day 1 - Lectures Only for a maximum of 6.25 AMA PRA Category 1 Credit(s) TM . Physicians should only claim credit commensurate with the extent of their participation in the activity.
Course Directors Armin Ernst, MD Chief, Interventional Pulmonology Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Gaetane Michaud, MD Associate Director Chest Disease Center Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Faculty Philippe Astoul, MD, PhD Chief, Chest Unit Marseille, France Malcolm DeCamp, MD Chief, Cardiothoracic Surgery Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center David Feller-Kopman, MD Director, Interventional Pulmonology Hopkins University, Baltimore R. Scott Harris, MD Assistant in Medicine Massachusetts General Hospital Kevin Kovitz, MD Chest Disease Center Chicago, IL Adnan Majid, MD Interventional Pulmonology Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Gaetane Michaud, MD Interventional Pulmonary Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Andrew G. Villanueva, MD Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit Lahey Clinic Medical Center Momen Wahidi, MD Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine Duke University Medical Center
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