Happy RESPIRATORY New Year 2012!!!

Happy RESPIRATORY New Year 2012!!!

Merry Christmas and Happy New 2012 Year!!!

We wish you a wonderful Christmas and Holidays time and Happy New Year!!! We would like to extend our gratitude to all our fans and supporters for your continuing support and help in 2011!
We are sure that 2012 will be successful year for the Respiratory Decade all over the world!

Respiratory Decade Team

Happy Birthday Respiratory Decade!!!

17 December 2011 is one year of Respiratory Decade!!!
We want to thank all our Respiratory supporters and friends!
What we realized in this our first year?
We made visible our initiative all over the world: we are having more than 3000 of vizualisations per month from more than 130 countries!
Alexandru CORLATEANU contributed to the GOLD 2011 guidelines and launched great international study - BOLD (Burden of Obstructive Pulmonary Diseases) in Moldova.
We organized promotion of many respiratory diseases via Special Days: World Asthma Day, World COPD Day, etc.
We launched Respublic and Lunguage!
But we are ready for new Respiratory results and victories!
Breathe with us!!!

World Spirometry Day 2012: Join the race for healthy lungs!

We are happy to present World Spirometry Day 2012!!!

Respiratory Decade will participate actively in promotion and organization of this Global event!  World Spirometry Day is a very important Day for all persons with respiratory conditions and for doctors! Its one more chance to make visible all Respiratory Non-Communicable Diseases!

World Spirometry Day (WSD) will take place again on 27 June, 2012 - the Olympic year.

The campaign will focus on sport and the lungs, and resources will be provided for all those organising testing events related to the Olympic theme. Testing will not be limited to this day alone and participants are encouraged to capitalise on the Olympics and hold events on the run up to the games on July 27 and beyond.

Lung champions is a campaign which is promoted by European Lung Foundation. You can nominate Lung Champions who can help raise awareness of the importance of activity and sport for lung health. Lung Champions can be young athletes with cystic fibrosis, a COPD patient taking part in a pulmonary rehabilitation programme or an Olympian with asthma.

Please use Lung champion nomination form for your  Lung Champions!

We want to remind you about success of First World Spirometry Day 2010! It was inspired by Professor Nikos SIAFAKAS President of European Respiratory Society:  “Increased awareness about lung health is vital, and by taking a simple and painless test that only takes a few minutes to perform, everybody can find out about the state of his lungs” .

Patients for patients: Your role in RESPIRATORY healthcare

Dear Respiratory Friends,

Today we are presenting new exiting RESPIRATORY Competition by Lovexair Foundation from Spain!!!
Its great opportunity for respiratory patients and doctors to enhance the role and impact of new ways and methods of education that will help to chronic respiratory patients from all over the world to be more active and healthy!

The prize: 500 Euros for the winning entry in this competition
How can you win?
Build an educational module for patients with chronic respiratory disease.

 “Patients for patients: Your role in respiratory healthcare” competition helps to share valuable ideas, knowledge and experience mainly from patients with chronic respiratory disease and healthcare specialists in order to create an advanced educational concept that can be used at global level, at low cost.
If you want to participate in this creative and educational programme that builds a permanent support system for patients using their feedback and win 500 Euros for your group or for your organisation:
Create your own educational module that includes content and methods on how best to teach patients or care-givers about managing their illness, their daily-life, or anything that improves their quality of life.

For further information, click here: in  English or in Spanish

Good Respiratory Luck to everybody!!!

Master of Interventional Pneumology, Firenze, Italy, 2012

Dear Respiratory Doctors,

We are happy to invite you in 2012 at Firenze, Italy for Master Studies in Interventional Pneumology, which is organized by great friend of Respiratory Decade Professor Lorenzo CORBETTA.
Please find links with program of Master Studies!

Coordinatore: Prof. L. Corbetta
Professore Associato Università degli Studi di Firenze

Direttore SOD di Broncologia diagnostico-interventistica

AOU Careggi - Firenze

Dalla Broncologia alla Pneumologia Interventistica

In questi giorni si sta concludendo presso l’Università degli Studi di Firenze la seconda edizione del Master di II livello in Pneumologia Interventistica che ha visto la partecipazione di 15 Specialisti provenienti da tutto il territorio Nazionale. Mentre i partecipanti stanno concludendo i loro periodi di stage presso 10 diversi centri nazionali di Pneumologia Interventistica (Firenze, Roma, Bologna, Ancona, Mestre, Pietra Ligure, Forlì, Ravenna, Rimini, Pisa) e si preparano ad affrontare l’esame finale, dal 29 novembre 2011 verranno aperte le iscrizioni  alla  terza edizione del Master.

Il Master che avrà inizio il 30 gennaio 2012 e terminerà in dicembre prevede 10 Moduli di 2/3 giornate il lunedi’ e il martedi’ e/o mercoledì a cui seguirà un  periodo di 2/3 settimane di stage e ha l’obiettivo principale di fornire un valido aggiornamento nel settore della broncoscopia diagnostica e operativa, della toracoscopia e della gestione delle vie aeree artificiali e si avvale di metodologie didattiche tradizionali di tipo frontale o seminariale e di metodologie innovative che prevedono l’uso di manichini, simulatori, collegamenti in “real time” con le sale endoscopiche, sessioni di e-learning e videoconferenze. Tutto il materiale didattico verrà reso disponibile in tempo reale anche sotto forma di webseminar nel sito del master http://master.pneumologia-interventistica.it. dove è possibile anche trovare le informazioni relative al bando 2012.

L’insegnamento, affidato a docenti dell’ateneo fiorentino e dei principali centri italiani di Pneumologia Interventistica, è diretto principalmente a medici Specialisti in Malattie dell’Apparato Respiratorio e ad altri Specialisti che hanno interesse ad acquisire professionalità in questo settore. Il termine ultimo per la presentazione della domanda di iscrizione è previsto per il 20 Dicembre 2011.

Sulla base dell’esperienza acquisita abbiamo ritenuto utile suddividere il programma del II Master in 2 parti: la prima sarà dedicata all’insegnamento teorico-pratico delle procedure endoscopiche mentre la seconda parte sarà dedicata all’analisi dei processi e dei percorsi diagnostico-terapeutici che prevedono l’esecuzione delle procedure endoscopiche, fornendo le soluzioni più appropriate ai problemi che vengono posti al Pneumologo interventista anche con il contributo di altre specialità come Chirurgia Toracica, ORL, Radiologia, Anestesia e Rianimazione  e Oncologia.  Su richiesta dei partecipanti delle precedenti edizioni è stato incrementato nell'ultima edizione la parte riservata alle esercitazioni pratiche grazie alla disponibilità della ditta Storz che ha fornito manichini e broncoscopi flessibili e rigidi e che dalla prossima edizione fornirà anche il materiale per la simulazione della toracoscopia.

World COPD Day 2011 in Moldova

Dear RESPIRATORY friends,

We discussed about  World COPD Day 2011 for many times, but now we want to tell you what we realized at the local level!

In November 2011 we organized more than 25 conferences (in the capital of Moldova - Chisinau and all big cities) dedicated to World COPD Day 2011 for family doctors and specialists in respiratory medicine, with presentation about Update of GOLD 2011 by Doctor Alexandru CORLATEANU, GOLD National Leader and ERS National Delegate for Moldova and Doctor Moscovciuc Ana about Local COPD guidelines.  

Also this year we tried to continue our media campaign in social media and blogs! We want to thank you for your support!!!

"Are you short of breath? You may have COPD! Ask your doctor about a simple breathing test called spirometry."

In Republic of Moldova  World COPD Day 2011 was celebrated for the first time! For us it is great result and we will continue to work hard for increasing of awareness to chronic respiratory diseases in the world!