For the archetypal clip successful 3 years, the American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) 2022 Annual Meeting volition beryllium unrecorded and successful idiosyncratic successful Nashville, Tennessee, location to large music, barbecue, and, from October 16 done 19, the chart-topping quality successful pulmonary, captious care, and slumber medicine.
This year's roundup volition of people see the accustomed suspects: oral abstracts connected the latest objective and technological advances, acquisition sessions to assistance attendees hone their skills, industry-sponsored symposia, unrecorded flight rooms ― wait, escape rooms??
More astir that successful a minute. First, let's perceive from this year's gathering organizers to larn what's successful store.
CHEST Gets Personal
"We're successful idiosyncratic aft a 3-year gap, and I deliberation a batch of excitement is centered astir making that in-person experience, which has ever been amazing, adjacent amended and adjacent much meaningful," said CHEST 2022 programme seat Subani Chandra, MD, FCCP, subordinate prof of medicine astatine Columbia University Medical Center successful New York City, successful an interrogation with Medscape Medical News.
"I deliberation this is going to beryllium a unsocial year, with much vigor than we've seen ever successful the past, due to the fact that connected apical of the emblematic acquisition program, there's going to beryllium a batch of excitement astir being backmost successful person," agreed Aneesa Das, MD, FCCP, prof of interior medicine astatine the Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center and vice-chair of the 2022 programme committee.
In an interview, Das, a slumber medicine specialist, said she is particularly looking guardant to a caller summation to the fashionable "Pardon the Interruption," oregon "PTI," sessions, which are based connected the ESPN sports tv speech amusement of the aforesaid name. The sessions diagnostic 3 competitors who statement blistery topics successful a fixed subspecialty, earning themselves points for factual accuracy and wit. The presentations person to beryllium concise and grounds based, and each league is followed by a moderated debriefing play to let assemblage members and participants to reappraisal the subjects discussed.
The caller PTI league connected slumber medicine volition absorption connected affirmative airway unit (PAP) and non-PAP approaches to managing obstructive slumber apnea, and first-line therapy for restless legs syndrome. Other PTI sessions, 1 connected each of the 4 gathering days, volition absorption connected controversies successful asthma, pulmonary vascular disease, and critical care.
Many Voices, One Goal
There volition beryllium peculiar accent this twelvemonth connected inclusion of young clinicians and trainees, with oral and integer abstracts and poster presentations to enactment caller voices and caller ideas from a affluent and divers radical of up-and-comers.
As the CHEST 2022 organizers authorities connected the gathering website, "[o]ur programme committee has taken attraction to guarantee that our panels don't correspond lone 1 constituent of presumption oregon perspective. Every acquisition league volition diagnostic presenters from a assortment of backgrounds, including diverseness of gender, race, credentialing, institutions, and years of acquisition successful medicine. We observe the diverseness of our members and the patients we treat. In our caring for others, we strive for equity and inclusion."
Chandra said that this year's gathering volition besides beryllium enriched some by lessons learned during the COVID-19 pandemic and by acquisition gained hosting virtual meetings implicit the past 2 years.
New this twelvemonth volition beryllium a bid of practice-changing updates successful pulmonary medicine and captious attraction created successful collaboration with the diary Chest. These sessions are successful summation to the lit reviews and "Best of CHEST Journal" sessions that attendees person enjoyed successful erstwhile years
For the caller update sessions, "they person gathered starring researchers and clinicians and volition reappraisal the latest, genuinely practice-changing, implementable developments successful the field," Chandra said.
Education, Fun, and Games
In much than 300 acquisition sessions, attendees tin larn astir the latest developments successful intratumoral therapies for lung cancer, attraction for patients with COVID-19, including recommended protocols and surge readying for the adjacent wave, and updates connected CHEST guidelines connected antithrombotic therapy for venous thromboembolic events, thromboprophylaxis successful COVID-19, and lung crab screening.
In summation to the much sedate PowerPoint-driven sessions, attendees volition beryllium invited to rotation up their sleeves and instrumentality portion successful interactive sessions that volition see simulation courses, including a caller league connected diagnosing and managing complications successful the bronchoscopy suite, cardiopulmonary workout testing, a one-on-one session successful which attendees volition beryllium coached successful nonstop laryngoscopy and "everything you request to cognize and things you are excessively acrophobic to inquire astir airway management, ventilation, and pulmonary clearance for patients with tracheostomy tubes."
Oh yes, and those flight rooms we promised. This twelvemonth determination volition beryllium unrecorded flight rooms offering adventuresome attendees the accidental to enactment their objective cognition and skills to usage collecting clues and solving puzzles successful 2 missions.
Here's however the meeting's website puts it:
"Journey to a distant aboriginal wherever a starship's shuttle has crashed and the unit onboard needs you to prevention them successful Starship Relics. Then, question to a upland municipality wherever a enigma needs to beryllium solved and a spooky twist awaits successful The Asthma Ascent."
There's besides a "last idiosyncratic standing" situation successful a crippled called Peer Pressure, successful which up to 30 players astatine a times are challenged with progressively analyzable questions. Wrong answers origin players to beryllium eliminated until lone 1 claims victory.
Social Events
And of course, nary CHEST gathering would beryllium implicit without peculiar events, specified arsenic the CHEST Foundation 25th Anniversary Celebration, an all-attendee opening reception astatine the Nashville's Wildhorse Saloon, featuring enactment dancing, unrecorded music, and Nashville nutrient favorites, including desserts with a Jack Daniel's glaze.
Welcome to Nashville!
American College of Chest Physicians (CHEST) 2022 Annual Meeting: October 16–19, Music City Center, Nashville, Tennessee.
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