Fabulous work my friend!

If you missed yesterday's webinar on Implications of the BTS Clinical Statement on Pleural Procedures, catch up here: pleura.org.uk/webinars-2023/

Our final webinar for 2023 on pleural infection will be tomorrow (16 Nov) at 5 pm (GMT). Sign up at pleura.org.uk/zoom-meetings/… You can catch up on the others at pleura.org.uk/webinars-2023/

Next up Mayven Siow highlighting that 16s PCR allowed identification of microbiological organisms in 40% of culture negative #pleural infection cases. PCR positivity was also associated with higher rates of treatment failure ?why? Eihab Bedawi #BTSwinter2023

Join us EACTS on Wednesday 13th December for a discussion on all things surgical management of pleural infection eacts.org/educational-ev… #eactsthoracic

Honoured to work with Eihab Bedawi, Najib M Rahman and Elizabeth Belcher to author a chapter on ‘Empyema and Parapneumonic Effusion’ in ‘Principles and Practice of Pleural Diseases’. Thank you to the editors Drs Erik Folch, Maher Tabba and Jerry Slate for the privilege!

A pleasure to work with colleagues who are now dear friends.A collection of challenging cases over the years and our thought processes,not everything in medicine can be answered through RCTs,and medicine is often equal parts Art as it is Science. #Pleural #RespIsBest #medtwitter

Dealing with any complex/atypical pleural cases? Bring them along to the first bi-monthly National Pleural MDT where a multidisciplinary group of pleural experts from across the country (and me) will try to help untangle! Details below.

What a privilege to represent #pleuralinfection at this excellent event amongst some of the giants of respiratory infection James D Chalmers Michael Loebinger Tom Wingfield Peter Openshaw #RTI2024 For those who missed, look out for #RTI2025, lots of fellow/trainee ops to present too!

Packed room for the inaugural Oxford ERS Thoracic Ultrasound Course (Part II) #Pleural Najib M Rahman Eihab Bedawi Rob Hallifax

And that's a wrap! Day 2 done! Fantastic showing Najib M Rahman Rob Hallifax Eihab Bedawi Radhika Banka Beenish Iqbal ERS #Pleural

What a team! 👊🏽

An amazing tribute by Fabien Maldonado 🇺🇸🇫🇷 to Richard Light to round off an excellent #ATS2024 pleural disease PG course with all star pleural faculty Udit Chaddha Samira Shojaee Nick maskell Yaron Gesthalter et al. We missed you David Feller-Kopman Y C Gary Lee Najib M Rahman Eihab Bedawi

🚨 Journal club in 2 hours! At 10 am ET - an interesting discussion on the MIST-3 trial comparing VATS vs intrapleural enzyme Rx for pleural infection. Speakers: Eihab Bedawi and Najib Rahman Joint moderators: David Feller-Kopman Andrew Gangemi Register here: tinyurl.com/ye3rb954

Delighted to share our ERS Statement on the Management of Benign Pleural Effusions 👇 Typically an understudied group, sat at the crossroads of multiple different specialities and much variation in practice. Hope helpful! erj.ersjournals.com/content/early/… #Pleural ERS publications

🔥 #ERSCongress2024

Congrats Sanjay Ramakrishnan and Mona Bafadhel - gamechanger!!