ERS welcomed over 830 delegates to this year’s Sleep and Breathing conference, which took place on 6–8 April in Marseille, France. This year’s event offered over 40 scientific sessions and educational workshops to clinicians, scientists and allied health professionals specialising in the respiratory sleep medicine field.
Professor Anita Simonds, Co-Chair of the conference alongside Professor Walter McNicholas, commented: “This year’s conference was both excellent and well attended. It built on the success of the three preceding conferences to deliver a programme of very high quality – combining expert presentations from the European Respiratory Society (ERS) and the European Sleep and Research Society (ESRS) with a focus on current hot topics in the field.”
The wide variety of presentations over the two-day event included: Cognitive function in sleep disordered breathing; What’s new in research; Update on sleep apnoea and cerebrovascular disorders; Parasomnias; Telemedicine; Medico legal aspects – including a very popular session on sleepiness and car accidents; and a session on Chronobiology and paediatric sleep disorders.
“Our keynote speaker Prof. Matt Naughton from Melbourne, Australia also gave an extremely enlightening lecture on Heart failure and sleep disordered breathing. “
Professor Simonds also welcomed the introduction of the ERS Certified Respiratory Sleep Training Programme as an additional educational option for delegates at this year’s event.
“The modules of the training programme are derived from the ERS Core Curriculum in Respiratory Sleep Medicine, and candidates (medics and AHPs) can cumulate modules to achieve certification in respiratory sleep medicine. The module options included Polysomnography, Assessment of Daytime sleepiness, Continuous positive airway pressure (CPAP)/Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) therapy, Respiratory conditions, and Medico-legal aspects of sleep disorders. Feedback on this has been excellent.”
“We are already looking forward to the fifth Sleep and Breathing conference in 2019.”
The details of the next Sleep and Breathing conference will be announced in 2018.
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