Home mechanical ventilation: Demystified
This course will provide you with a practical understanding of how to manage patients receiving mechanical ventilation in the community.
About this event
- Date and time Sat 23 Nov 2019 from 8:30am to 5:00pm
- Location Royal Society of Medicine
- Organised by Radiology
Receive a comprehensive understanding of chest X-rays (CXR), starting from the normal CXR and working through patterns of infection, interstitial disease, neoplasia, pleural disease, mediastinal and hilar abnormalities.
The structured talks will take the participants through a logical, stepwise journey in how to interpret a Chest X-ray. A mix of didactic lectures from experienced speakers involved in thoracic imaging and hands-on viewing station sessions will reinforce your knowledge and provide you with confidence and tools for verbal presentations.
At the end of this meeting the participants will be able to:
- Interpret a normal chest X-ray
- Understand the silhouette sign
- Differentiate between lung collapse and consolidation
- Recognise common tubes and lines and pleural disease
- Assess hilar abnormalities
Agenda
23 November 2019
Registration, tea and coffee
Practicalities of the CXR- PA vs. AP, anatomy, checking adequacy and its implications, review systems
Dr Peter Wilson, Consultant Radiologist, St Mary’s Hospital, Isle of Wight
The silhouette sign and its implications, alveolar vs. interstitial shadowing, pneumonia, lobar collapse
Dr Ting Ting Zhang, Radiologist, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton
Practical session one
Laptop session
Tea and coffee break
Practical session one: Answers and discussion
Cancer, important lines and tubes, pacemakers
Dr Arpan Banerjee, Consultant Radiologist, University Hospitals Birmingham Foundation Trust
Pleural effusions, pneumothorax and pneumomediastinum
Dr Graham Robinson, Consultant Radiologist, Royal United Hospital Bath NHS Trust
Lunch
Practical session two
Practical session two: Answers and discussion
Assessing the hila and hilar abnormalities, heart failure, analysing mediastinal masses
Dr Charlie Sayer, Consultant Radiologist, Royal Sussex County Hospital, Brighton
Practical session three
Tea and coffee break
Practical session three: Answers and discussion
Close of meeting
Location
Royal Society of Medicine, 1 Wimpole St, Marylebone, London, W1G 0AE, United Kingdom
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