Skills course: Thoracoscopy and Pleural Techniques - October 2025

 

This course was aimed at pulmonologists and thoracic surgeons who wanted to train in diagnostic and therapeutic interventional pulmonology. As a rule, one third of the course was devoted to hands-on workshops and two thirds to the theoretical aspects of bronchoscopy or thoracoscopy. Each course was tutored by four to six internationally recognised experts.

Session type: Lecture

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Session content



Nonspecific pleuritis after thoracoscopy

Duneesha De Fonseka

Slides


Break


Flexi-rigid thoracoscopy: advantages and drawbacks

Romain Alfieri



Open discussion and hands-on around (pleurals techniques): Pleural ultrasound, chest drainage, indwelling pleural catheter, thoracoscopic equipment, erector spinae block