Educational events
Pleural intervention workshop
Date: September 19, 2025, 8:55 a.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Venue: I. TRN Clinic, U Nemocnice 499/2, 128 08 Prague 2 (pavilion A6), meeting room
Registration fee: CZK 3,000
Capacity: 10 participants, the event is intended for doctors
Program:
The theoretical part
BLOCK I (9:00 – 9:50)
- Chest ultrasound - normal findings, pleural effusions, PNO, consolidation, empyema, pulmonary edema (Assoc. Prof. MUDr. Jiří Votruba, Ph.D.)
- Facts and myths about chest effusions (MUDr. Zuzana Šestáková)
- Management of patients with empyema (MUDr. Kryštof Štefl)
- Pleuroscopy vs fibrinolysis in pleural infections (doc. MUDr. Jiří Votruba, Ph.D.)
BLOCK II (10:00 – 10:50)
- Management of patients with primary, spontaneous PNO (MUDr. Zuzana Hajníková)
- Introduction of a chest drain and fixation technique (MUDr. Kryštof Šefl)
- VATS management of complicated parapneumonic effusion/empyema and recurrent pneumothorax (MUDr. Jiří Pozniak)
BLOCK III (11:00 – 11:30)
- Tunneled pleural catheter (TPK) – indications, applications, complications (MUDr. Zuzana Šestáková)
- Management of malignant pleural effusions – pleuroscopy vs tunneled catheter (MUDr. Zuzana Šestáková)
- Management of patients with established TPK from a nurse's perspective (Bc. Pavla Randáčková, DiS.)
Practical part (12:30 – 14:30)
Practicing the introduction of TPK on models.
Practice inserting a chest drain and fixing it on models.
(Bc. Veronika Pechková, DiS., Bc. Pavla Randáčková, DiS., MUDr. Kryštof Šefl, MUDr. Zuzana Šestáková, doc. MUDr. Jiří Votruba, Ph.D.)
CANCELLATION POLICY: If the client cancels their participation 14 calendar days before the start of the event, the cancellation fee is 100% of the set price of the event (the issued invoice must be paid). The exception is the client's proven incapacity for work at the time of the event or other serious reasons. The head of the education department decides on exceptions. Cancellation of the event is only possible in writing to the e-mail address: ondrej.bauer@vfn.cz
