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Harvard Medical School's The Management
of Pleural Diseases, including Medical
Thoracoscopy and Other Procedures Course
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Faculty:
Armin Ernst, MD - Program Director; Chief, Interventional Pulmonology, Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center. - Course Director
Malcolm Decamp, MD - Co-Course Director; Chief, Thoracic Surgery, Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Raphael Bueno, MD - Associate Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham
and Women's Hospital
Robert J.O. Davies, MD - Reader in Respiratory Medicine, Oxford Centre for
Respiratory Medicine, Great Britain
R. Scott Harris, MD - Assistant in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Adnan Majid, MD - Interventional Pulmonology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center
Gaetane Michaud, MD - Interventional Pulmonology, Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center
Andrew G. Villanueva, MD - Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Lahey
Clinic Medical Center
Momen Wahidi, MD - Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University
Medical Center, North Carolina.
First Day - December 13, 2007
7:45 - 8:30 AM - Registration & Breakfast
8:30 - 8:40 AM - Introduction Armin Ernst, MD
8:40 - 9:00 AM - Review of Pleural Anatomy & Raphael Bueno,MD
Physiology
9:00 - 9:20 AM - Work Up of Pleural Effusions- R. Scott Harris, MD
Light's criteria & beyond
9:20 - 9:50 AM - Thoracentesis and ultrasound- Adnan Majid, MD
guidance
9:50 - 10:10 AM - PleurX catheter use & Gaetane Michaud, MD
placement
10:10 - 10:30 AM - Break
10:30 - 10:50 AM - Closed Pleural Biopsy Robert Davies, MD
10:50 - 11:10 AM - Chest Tube Placement Momen Wahidi, MD
11:10 - 11:50 AM - Medical Thoracoscopy - Armin Ernst, MD
Indications & Technique
11:50 - 12:00 PM - Questions & Answers
12:00 - 1:15 PM - Lunch
1:15 - 1:40 PM - Medical Thoracoscopy and Malcolm Decamp,MD
VATS - A Surgeon's view
1:40 - 2:10 PM - Management of Pneumothorax Andrew villanueva, MD
2:10 - 2:30 PM - Break
2:30 - 3:00 PM - Management of unclear Gaetane Michaud,MD
exudates
3:00 - 3:30 PM - Management of parapneumonic Robert Davies, MD
effusions & empyema
3:30 - 4:00 PM - Management of Malignant Momen Wahidi, MD
pleural effusions
4:00 - 4:15 PM - Coding & Reimbursements Armin Ernst, MD
4:15 - 4:30 PM - Q & A
4:30 PM - Adjourn
Second Day - December 14, 2007
Hands-on procedures at Animal Lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,
Boston, MA.
Skill stations include:
- Pleurx catheter placement
- Medical thorascopy
- Surgical thorascopy (VATS)
- Pleural biopsy using Abrams needle and Cone's needle.
Armin Ernst, MD - Program Director; Chief, Interventional Pulmonology, Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center. - Course Director
Malcolm Decamp, MD - Co-Course Director; Chief, Thoracic Surgery, Beth
Israel Deaconess Medical Center
Raphael Bueno, MD - Associate Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery, Brigham
and Women's Hospital
Robert J.O. Davies, MD - Reader in Respiratory Medicine, Oxford Centre for
Respiratory Medicine, Great Britain
R. Scott Harris, MD - Assistant in Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital
Adnan Majid, MD - Interventional Pulmonology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical
Center
Gaetane Michaud, MD - Interventional Pulmonology, Beth Israel Deaconess
Medical Center
Andrew G. Villanueva, MD - Director, Medical Intensive Care Unit, Lahey
Clinic Medical Center
Momen Wahidi, MD - Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Duke University
Medical Center, North Carolina.
First Day - December 13, 2007
7:45 - 8:30 AM - Registration & Breakfast
8:30 - 8:40 AM - Introduction Armin Ernst, MD
8:40 - 9:00 AM - Review of Pleural Anatomy & Raphael Bueno,MD
Physiology
9:00 - 9:20 AM - Work Up of Pleural Effusions- R. Scott Harris, MD
Light's criteria & beyond
9:20 - 9:50 AM - Thoracentesis and ultrasound- Adnan Majid, MD
guidance
9:50 - 10:10 AM - PleurX catheter use & Gaetane Michaud, MD
placement
10:10 - 10:30 AM - Break
10:30 - 10:50 AM - Closed Pleural Biopsy Robert Davies, MD
10:50 - 11:10 AM - Chest Tube Placement Momen Wahidi, MD
11:10 - 11:50 AM - Medical Thoracoscopy - Armin Ernst, MD
Indications & Technique
11:50 - 12:00 PM - Questions & Answers
12:00 - 1:15 PM - Lunch
1:15 - 1:40 PM - Medical Thoracoscopy and Malcolm Decamp,MD
VATS - A Surgeon's view
1:40 - 2:10 PM - Management of Pneumothorax Andrew villanueva, MD
2:10 - 2:30 PM - Break
2:30 - 3:00 PM - Management of unclear Gaetane Michaud,MD
exudates
3:00 - 3:30 PM - Management of parapneumonic Robert Davies, MD
effusions & empyema
3:30 - 4:00 PM - Management of Malignant Momen Wahidi, MD
pleural effusions
4:00 - 4:15 PM - Coding & Reimbursements Armin Ernst, MD
4:15 - 4:30 PM - Q & A
4:30 PM - Adjourn
Second Day - December 14, 2007
Hands-on procedures at Animal Lab at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center,
Boston, MA.
Skill stations include:
- Pleurx catheter placement
- Medical thorascopy
- Surgical thorascopy (VATS)
- Pleural biopsy using Abrams needle and Cone's needle.