Airway diseases
Symposium
Managing frailty in patients with acute or chronic lung disorders
Clinical
Aims : To define frailty and its association with various chronic and acute lung disease; to determine the biology underlying frailty in humans and animals; to describe a clear rationale for early mobilisation/rehabilitation in frail patients; and to evaluate rehabilitative interventions to reverse frailty.
Target audience :
Adult pulmonologist/Clinician, Clinical researcher, General practitioner, Medical Student, Medical Technical Assistant, Nurse, Patient, Physician in Pulmonary Training, Physiologist, Respiratory critical care physician, Respiratory physiotherapist, Journalist, Thoracic surgeon
Methods :
Physiology, Pulmonary rehabilitation, Respiratory intensive care
18:00
Introduction
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18:05
Diagnosing management and measures of frailty
M. Cesari(Milan, Italy)
COI
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Description
2
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18:14
Skeletal muscle stem cells and capillaries; important neighbours in muscle tissue of COPD patients
T. Snijders(Maastricht, Netherlands)
COI
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Description
3
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18:23
Frailty during and after hospitalisation
M. Herridge(Toronto (ON), Canada)
COI
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Description
4
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18:32
Frailty in chronic lung disorders
L. Lahousse(Ghent, Belgium)
COI
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Description
5
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18:41
Rehabilitative interventions to reverse frailty
M. Maddocks(BROMLEY, United Kingdom)
COI
6
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18:50
Discussion and Q&A
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