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Course overview
  • Course Date To be advised
  • Course Venue Health Academy, Royal Preston Hospital, Preston, Lancashire, PR2 9HT
  • Course Fee To be advised

Aimed at for Doctors, Medical Trainees, Bronchoscopy Nurses, Technicians and Physiotherapists and others involved in bronchoscopy.

A basic one day interactive bronchoscopy course designed to provide beginners with a firm grounding in essential principles involved in the practice of bronchoscopy, besides detailed instruction in the correct method of various sampling techniques to increase the diagnostic yield of bronchoscopy.

Course Overview:

  • History of Bronchoscopy
  • Basics – Indications, Normal and Variant Anatomy
  • Training to be a Bronchoscopist – A Systematic Approach
  • Sterilising and Careful handling of Bronchoscopes
  • Bronchoscopic sampling – Brush, BAL, Endobronchial and Transbronchial Biopsy
  • Complications of Bronchoscopy – Prevention and Management
  • Advanced Techniques – Current and Future
  • Practical demonstrations, Hands-on Workshops, Simulation Lab

For further details, please contact:
Surgical Sim Team, Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
Email: surgicalsim@lthtr.nhs.uk