Pulmonary Medicine Update Course :The Leading Respiratory Care Event in Egypt




Pulmonary Medicine Update Course Egypt

















Pulmonary Medicine Update Course is the premier Egyptian educational course for educators, researchers, practitioners and providers of health care in the field of Respiratory Care.


Course Venue:
New Kasr El-Eini Teaching Hospital, Cairo University, Cairo, Egypt

Course Dates:
3-4 February, 2010

Course Faculty:

Dean Hess, PhD, RRT, FAARC
Associate Professor, Department of Anesthesia & Critical Care
Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School
Boston, USA


Lluis Blanch, MD
Professor of Medicine
University of Barcelona, Spain


Course Topics:

3 February, 2010:
  • Anatomy of the Ventilator (Hess)
  • Under appreciated signs in Ventilator Monitoring (Blanch)
  • New Modes in MV including PAV & NAVA (Hess)
  • Lung Mechanics beyond basics ( Blanch)
  • MV of the patient with Neuro- Mascular Disease (Hess)
4 February, 2010
  • How to recruit the injured lung? (Blanch)
  • NIV Update (Hess)
  • Weaning: Tips & Tricks(Blanch)
  • 5 recent papers in Respiratory Care you should not miss!(Hess)
  • Advances in Critical Care : A 25 years perspective (Blanch)
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