2024 ANNUAL EDUCATIONAL CONFERENCE GENERAL INFORMATION
Activity Overview
This conference brings together regional and national experts to discuss the latest advances in Pulmonary, Critical Care and Sleep Medicine. Thursday is dedicated to a symposium on bronchiectasis and nontuberculous mycobacterial infections. Friday begins with screening for and managing lung cancer using a multidisciplinary approach, along with advances in smoking cessation. This is followed by identifying problems with mechanical ventilation management and implementing novel tools to optimize respiratory mechanics. The day concludes with discussing alternative and novel approaches for monitoring and managing airways diseases. Saturday starts with common complications of critical illness. This is followed by evaluating and managing malignant and non-malignant pleural diseases. The day concludes with providing and optimizing non-respiratory critical care, including cardiac, resuscitative, traumatic, surgical, and sleep medicine measures.