CONGRESS GUIDE

ERS International Congress 2016
DETAILED PROGRAMME
SATURDAY 03 SEPTEMBER, 2016
11:00
Clinical management of adults with recurrent respiratory infections
Michael Tamm (Basel, Switzerland)
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12:15
Primary and secondary prevention of recurrent respiratory infections
James D. Chalmers (Perth, United Kingdom)
Room ICC Capital Suite
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Session 28 09:30 - 13:00
Registration for this session is additional to the congress registration fee and is €140 on site, €125 standard or €95 for early bird
registration.
Postgraduate Course: PG10 Tuberculosis management: a personalised clinical approach
Aims : Access educational materials here
To update the knowledge and clinical skills of healthcare workers in the management of drug-susceptible tuberculosis; to improve the
effectiveness of diagnosis, particularly in low-income areas; and to throw light on the necessary infection control activities.
Track(s) : Infection
Tag(s) : Clinical
Target audience : Clinician, Pulmonologist, TB specialist, Public health official, Nurse
Chairs : Marc Lipman (London, United Kingdom), Ali Zumla (London, United Kingdom)
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09:30
10:15
Diagnostic opportunities in low-income countries
Keertan Dheda (Cape Town, South Africa)
When, where, and how to treat tuberculosis in multiple drug resistant patients
Payam Nahid (San Francisco, United States of America)
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11:00 Break 71
11:30
In and outpatient infection control activities
Riitta Dlodlo (Bulawayo, Zimbabwe)
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12:15
Contact tracing to detect new patients and new infected cases
Connie G.M. Erkens (The Hague, Netherlands)
Room ICC Capital Suite 8 Session 53 14:00 - 17:30
Registration for this session is additional to the congress registration fee and is €140 on site, €125 standard or €95 for early bird
registration.
Postgraduate Course: PG11 Assessing respiratory system resistance in children and adults
A focus on young children and older adults
Aims : Access educational materials here
To describe alternatives to spirometry that can be used to measure airways and respiratory system resistance, and especially evaluating
young children and older adults who may have problems performing an accurate spirometric test; to describe the methods that are
particularly useful in clinical settings and to some extent in primary care or outpatient departments; to present the principles, equipment,
advantages, and disadvantages of well-known and recently developed alternative methods.
Track(s) : Physiology Paediatric
Tag(s) : Basic science
Target audience : Allergologist, Allied health professional, Clinician, Engineer, Epidemiologist, Fellow, General practitioner, Lung
function technician, Paediatrician, Physiologist, Pulmonologist, Researcher, Respiratory physician, Scientist
Chairs : Ellie Oostveen (Edegem, Belgium), Jellien Makonga-Braaksma (Woudenberg, Netherlands)
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14:00
14:45
Introduction to airway resistance measurements
David Kaminsky (Burlington, United States of America)
Plethysmographic assessment of airway resistance
Jane Kirkby (London, United Kingdom)
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15:30 Break 165
16:00
16:45
Oscillometry (FOT and IOS): definition and application
Waldemar Tomalak (Rabka-Zdroj, Poland)
Interrupter resistance
Peter J. F. M. Merkus (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
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