European Respiratory Society International Congress 2021: Highlights from the Respiratory clinical care and physiology assembly

Abstract

It is a challenge to keep abreast of all the clinical and scientific advances in the field of respiratory medicine. This article contains an overview of laboratory-based science, randomised controlled trials and qualitative research that were presented during the 2021 European Respiratory Society International Congress within the sessions from the five groups of the Assembly 1 – Respiratory clinical care and physiology. Selected presentations are summarised from a wide range of topics: clinical problems, rehabilitation and chronic care, general practice and primary care, electronic/mobile health (e-health/m-health), clinical respiratory physiology, exercise and functional imaging.

ERS International Congress 2022: highlights from the Respiratory Clinical Care and Physiology Assembly

“…Presenters raised the importance of prioritising the end-users' needs, involving them in co-designing the solutions early in their development to ensure the technologies are accurate and fit the users' preferences/habits and routine workflow. Moreover, compared to the topics highlighted during the previous ERS Congresses by this group [ 70 – 72 ], these presentations showed the evolution of the topics that group members considered as clinically relevant during the last years.…”

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“…Digital health is an ERS priority, as reflected by the launch of the ERS-funded Clinical Research Collaboration “CONNECT” (Moving multiple digital innovations towards connected respiratory care: addressing the over-arching challenges of whole systems implementation) [ 63 ]. Several advancements were presented, compared to previous ERS Congresses [ 1 , 64 – 67 ], on a great diversity of topics ( figure 3 ). The sessions summarised in this section are “Digital solutions for respiratory medicine: a new way of working”, “Remote monitoring of respiratory patients” and “Digital health innovations in respiratory healthcare”.…”

“…Digital health is an ERS priority, as reflected by the launch of the ERS-funded clinical research collaboration 'CONNECT' (Moving multiple digital innovations towards connected respiratory care: Addressing the over-arching challenges of whole systems implementation) [63]. Several advancements were presented this year compared to previous ERS congresses [1,[64][65][66][67] on a great diversity of topics (Figure 3).…”

“…Although the virtual platform allows presentations to be replayed, it can be challenging to keep up to date with all the scientific and clinical advances. That's why, every year, the Early-Career Members Committee coordinates reports summarising the most significant presentations from each Assembly [1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14]. This article, therefore, aims to share some of the highlights from the Respiratory clinical care and physiology assembly.…”

ERS “CONNECT” Clinical Research Collaboration – moving multiple digital innovations towards connected respiratory care: addressing the over-arching challenges of whole systems implementation

“…Digital respiratory care is an ERS priority. No attendee of recent ERS Congresses could miss the accelerating interest in digital health, with sessions focused on digital care, frequent speaker references to digital initiatives, and abstracts describing diverse innovative digital projects [9,10]. An ERS Presidential Summit on "Digital respiratory medicinerealism vs futurism" in 2021 [11], the creation of the mHealth/ eHealth ERS Group [12] and the commissioning of clinical reviews on telehealth [13] all testify to the society's focus on digital respiratory care.…”