This ERS Vision Live panel discussion focused on the clinical and ethical challenges of dyspnea.

The expert panellists discussed key areas, including:

• The existential experience of dyspnea and its invisibility

• Experiential learning to sensitize medical trainees to dyspnea

• Raising the public awareness of dyspnea: lessons from the COVID era

Chairs:

• Prof. Thomas Similowski - Head of the respiratory, critical care, pulmonary rehabilitation, and sleep medicine at la Pitié-Salpêtrière hospital, Paris, France.
• Prof. Capucine Morélot-Panzini - Professor of Pulmonology at the Sorbonne University Medical School in Paris. Specialized in unexplained dyspnea and chronic respiratory failure, she heads the Department of Respiratory Medicine of the Pitié-Salpétrière University Hospital (Paris).

Speakers:

• Prof. Havi Carel - Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bristol. She studies the experience of illness, death, and phenomenology.
• Prof. Nicholas Hopkinson - Professor Nicholas Hopkinson is based at The National Heart and Lung Institute of Imperial College on the Royal Brompton Hospital Campus.
• Dr. Maxens Decavèle - PhD student at Sorbonne University, conducting fundamental and clinical studies in respiratory neurophysiology.
• Dr. Laure Serresse - Dr Laure Serresse has been a palliative care specialist at Pité-Salpêtrière Hospital (Paris, France) for 10 years.