This webinar focuses on the baseline assessment of shortness of breath and the association with early or established interstitial lung disease.
Learning Objectives
- Assessment of shortness of breath
- Awareness and assessment of ILD
- Necessary tools for evaluating patients with early or established ILD in the primary care
- Comorbidities in ILD and their assessment
- Effect of treatments in ILD and their monitoring in the primary care
Dr Vasilis Kouranos Background
Dr Vasilis Kouranos is highly specialised in pulmonary fibrosis and interstitial lung diseases such as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, hypersensitivity pneumonitis and connective tissue disease-associated interstitial lung diseases at Royal Brompton Hospital.
He has sub-specialist expertise in sarcoidosis and particularly cardiac sarcoidosis, which was the subject of his PhD thesis. He also offers clinical support for sarcoidosis and ILD patients with lung cancer.
Dr Vasilis Kouranos
Consultant respiratory physician
- Curated for: Allied Health Professional & Primary care doctors & Students
- Subject: Respiratory medicine
45 Minutes
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Dr Shouvik Haldar
Consultant cardiologist and electrophysiologist
- Curated For : Primary care doctors & Students
- Subject : Cardiology
1 hour
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Professor Michael Polkey
Consultant respiratory physician
- Curated For : Primary care doctors & Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Respiratory medicine
50 minutes
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Dr Emmanuel Ako
Consultant cardiologist
- Curated For : Primary care doctors & Students
- Subject : Cardiology & Respiratory medicine
50 minutes
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Dr Jonathan Hill
Consultant cardiologist
- Curated For : Radiographers / technologists & Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Cardiac surgery & Cardiology
50 Minutes
17 Jun 2020 Dr Sundeep Kaul, focuses on COVID-19 and patient management in primary care.
Dr Sundeep Kaul
Consultant in intensive care and respiratory medicine
- Curated For : Primary care doctors & Students
- Subject : General medicine & Respiratory medicine
50 Minutes
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Dr Allie Hare
Consultant physician in respiratory and sleep medicine
- Curated For : General public / patient & Primary care doctors
- Subject : Respiratory medicine
50 Minutes
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Dr Alexander Lyon
Consultant cardiologist
- Curated For : Radiographers / technologists & Secondary care doctors & Tertiary care doctors
- Subject : Cardiology & General medicine
50 Minutes