Expert insights on acute and chronic respiratory failure

Join our online seminar, featuring expert clinicians who will share insights into both acute and chronic respiratory failure, current research, and approaches to patient care.

Our respiratory medicine centre at Royal Brompton Hospital (RBH) is a world leader in the diagnosis, management and treatment of lung disease. We treat patients from across the UK and abroad for the full range of respiratory disorders.

As a leading European respiratory research centre, we have, with our partner the National Heart and Lung Institute, pioneered research that has set national standards for treatment.

Programme

Welcome, 5:30pm to 5:40pm

Leah Mansfield, RBH patient governor

Presentations, 5:40pm to 6:20pm

• Chronic respiratory failure, Michelle Ramsay, respiratory medicine consultant & honorary senior lecturer at King's College London

Michelle will discuss the common conditions leading to long-term respiratory failure, the underlying mechanisms, and the evidence supporting the use of domiciliary ventilation to optimise patient management.

• Supporting the most severe acute respiratory failure patients, Brijesh V Patel, clinical senior lecturer in cardiothoracic critical care

Brijesh will outline our work to influence national and global care for patients with severe acute respiratory failure, as well as current research to better understand newer therapies in severe lung failure.

Questions and answers, 6:20pm to 7pm

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