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Development of a syllabus for postgraduate respiratory physiotherapy education: the Respiratory Physiotherapy HERMES project

Thierry Troosters, Fabio Pitta, Beatrice Oberwaldner, Agnieszka Lewko, Deniz Inal-Ince, Kathleen Grant, Rik Gosselink, Chris Burtin, Margareta Emtner, Enrico Clini, Michelle Chatwin, Sharon Mitchell
European Respiratory Journal 2015 45: 1221-1223; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00037215
Thierry Troosters
1Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Respiratory Division, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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  • For correspondence: thierry.troosters@med.kuleuven.be
Fabio Pitta
2Dept of Physiotherapy, Universidade Estadual de Londrina, Londrina, Brazil
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Beatrice Oberwaldner
3Medical University of Graz, Graz, Austria
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Agnieszka Lewko
4School of Rehabilitation Sciences, Faculty of Health, Social Care and Education, St Georges University of London, London, UK
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Deniz Inal-Ince
5Dept of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Faculty of Health Sciences, Hacettepe University, Ankara, Turkey
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Kathleen Grant
6Physiotherapy, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Vaudois, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Rik Gosselink
1Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Respiratory Division, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Chris Burtin
7Rehabilitation Research Centre, Biomedical Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Hasselt University, Diepenbeek, Belgium
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Margareta Emtner
8Dept of Neuroscience/Physiotherapy, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
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Enrico Clini
9Dept of Medical and Surgical Sciences, University of Modena-Reggio Emilia and Ospedale Villa Pineta, Pavullo, Italy
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Michelle Chatwin
10Clinical and Academic Dept of Sleep and Breathing, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK
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Sharon Mitchell
11Educational Activities, European Respiratory Society, Lausanne, Switzerland
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Best practice in the diagnosis and management of patients with respiratory conditions is now a multidisciplinary effort [1, 2]. Physiotherapists engage in many aspects of the care of patients with respiratory diseases. Across a range of diseases, ages and settings, they carry out highly specialised treatments related to mucus clearance, breathing exercises, invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilation, exercise training and rehabilitation, as well as reintegration of patients with respiratory disorders. Their tasks span from the neonatal intensive care unit to the palliative care unit of geriatric patients. Over the past decades, respiratory physiotherapists across the world have published research in all these fields feeding into the evidence base that underpins much of the care provided by these professionals. Physiotherapy practice has also evolved over the past few decades. Self-referral by service users (patients) is now possible in approximately half of the European member states of the World Confederation on Physiotherapy [3]. This requires highly trained health professionals capable of assessing, treating, referring and reintegrating patients. In patients with respiratory conditions, this is often performed in the context of a multidisciplinary team.

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The Respiratory Physiotherapy HERMES project aims to standardise treatment of patients within and beyond Europe http://ow.ly/L1e72

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The ERS Respiratory Physiotherapy HERMES Task Force would like to acknowledge each of the national experts who took part in the Delphi process and contributed their feedback to develop a consensus-based international syllabus in respiratory physiotherapy. Europe: Austria: Michaela Strauss; Belgium: Veronica Barbier, Michelle Norrenberg; Bulgaria: Blagoi Marinov; Croatia: Snjezana Benko; Czech Republic: Katerina Neumannova; Denmark: Linette Marie Kofod; Estonia: Karin Tammik; Finland: Tiina Kaistila; France: Adrian Morales Robles, Philippe Joud; Germany: Kathrin Suess; Greece: Eirini Grammatopoulou, Eleni Kortianou; Iceland: Harpa Arnardottir; Italy: Sara Mariani, Luciana Ptacinsky, Francesco D'Abrosca; Ireland: Claire Egan; Lithuania: Ieva Jamontaite; Malta: Stephen Montefort; the Netherlands: Sandra Jongenotter, Susanne van Riesen; Norway: Ulla Pedersen; Poland: Teresa Orlik, Roman Nowobilski; Portugal: Miguel Goncalves, Paulo Abreu, Alda Marques; Spain: Jordi Vilaró, M. Angels Cebriá I Iranzo, Rosa Josa; Sweden: Louise Lannefors, Karin Wadell; Switzerland: François Vermeulen; Turkey: Hulya Arikan, Sema Savci; Ukraine: Kateryna Tymruk; UK: Abebaw Yohannes, Bronwen Connolly, Judy Bradley, Brenda O'Neill. Outside Europe: Australia: Jennifer Alison, Lissa Spencer, Shane Patman; Argentina: Gustavo Olguin; Brazil: Sara Menezes, Verônica Parreira; Canada: Darlene Reid, Elisabeth Dean, Didier Saey; Thailand: Chulee Jones; USA: Donna Frownfelter, Thomas Kallstrom.

Further acknowledgement should also go to Julia Bott (Academic Health Science Network, UK) who was influential in preparing the initial project proposal.

Footnotes

  • Conflict of interest: S. Mitchell is an employee of the European Respiratory Society.

  • Received March 6, 2015.
  • Accepted March 8, 2015.
  • Copyright ©ERS 2015
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Development of a syllabus for postgraduate respiratory physiotherapy education: the Respiratory Physiotherapy HERMES project
Thierry Troosters, Fabio Pitta, Beatrice Oberwaldner, Agnieszka Lewko, Deniz Inal-Ince, Kathleen Grant, Rik Gosselink, Chris Burtin, Margareta Emtner, Enrico Clini, Michelle Chatwin, Sharon Mitchell
European Respiratory Journal May 2015, 45 (5) 1221-1223; DOI: 10.1183/09031936.00037215

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