COURSE: WEEKS IN INTERVENTIONAL PULMONOLOGY November 11-15, 2013
Venue: Ancona (Italy)
Topics: Flexible and rigid bronchoscopy, Medical thoracoscopy

PROGRAM

Monday, November 11

8.0.8.30 Meetings of participants
Registration

8.30-9.00 Presentation of the Course

9.00-13.30
Hands-on Session
(Tutors: Stefano Gasparini, Lina Zuccatosta, Michele Sediari, Federico Mei)
Attendance to the endoscopic room
Discussion of clinical cases
Participation in the endoscopic activity

13.30-15.00 Lunch

15.00-15.30 How to use the bronchoscope (Stefano Gasparini, Ancona)

15.30-16.00 Premedication and preparation of the patient (Francesca Marchesani, Ancona)

16.00-16.30 Techniques of sampling in bronchoscopy (Stefano Gasparini, Ancona)

16.30-17.00 Conventional TBNA (Stefano Gasparini, Ancona)

Tuesday, November 12

9.00-13.30
Hands-on Session
(Tutors: Stefano Gasparini, Lina Zuccatosta, Michele Sediari, Federico Mei)
Attendance to the endoscopic room
Discussion of clinical cases
Participation in the endoscopic activity

13.30-15.00 Lunch

15.00-15.30 Discussion of the procedures performed in the morning (Tutors: Stefano Gasparini, Maurizio Ferretti, Ancona)

15.30-16.30 Medical Thoracoscopy. State of the art (Gianfranco Tassi, Brescia)

16.30-17.00 Ultrasound in the pleural pathology (Giampietro Marchetti, Brescia)

17.00-17.30 Bronchial thermoplasty (Lina Zuccatosta, Ancona)

Wednesday, November 13

9.00-13.30
Hands-on Session
(Tutors: Stefano Gasparini, Lina Zuccatosta, Michele Sediari, Federico Mei)
Attendance to the endoscopic room
Discussion of clinical cases
Participation in the endoscopic activity

13.30-15.00 Lunch

15.00-15.30 Discussion of the procedures performed in the morning (Tutors: Stefano Gasparini, Maurizio Ferretti, Ancona))

15.30-16.00 Treatment of cytological samples (Maurizio Ferretti, Ancona)

16.00-16.30 Bronchoscopic desobstructing techniques (Stefano Gasparini, Ancona)

16.30-17.00 Bronchoscopic treatment of emphysema (Stefano Gasparini, Ancona)

Thursday, November 14

9.00-13.30
Hands-on Session
(Tutors: Stefano Gasparini, Lina Zuccatosta, Michele Sediari, Federico Mei)
Attendance to the endoscopic room
Discussion of clinical cases
Participation in the endoscopic activity
Hands-on on models

13.30-15.00 Lunch

15.00-17.00 Hands-on session:
Peripheral pulmonary lesions: transbronchial and percutaneous approach
(Tutors: Stefano Gasparini, Maurizio Ferretti)

17.00-17.30 Bronchoscopy in asthma: cases of differential diagnosis (Lina Zuccatosta, Ancona).

20.00 Dinner

Friday, November 15

9.00-13.30
Hands-on Session
(Tutors: Stefano Gasparini, Lina Zuccatosta, Michele Sediari, Federico Mei)
Attendance to the endoscopic room
Discussion of clinical cases
Participation in the endoscopic activity

13.30-14.00 Closing remarks