Professor Patrick White

Professor of Primary Care Respiratory Medicine
Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine

Talk title: “A Lay Health Worker intervention to improve adherence in COPD: implementation of recruitment and training by pulmonary rehabilitation teams"

 

Professor Ana Valdes

Professor of Molecular and Genetic Epidemiology
School of Medicine
University of Nottingham

Talk title: "Preoperative markers of inflammation and renal function predict postsurgical mortality in frail hip fracture patients"

Hip fractures are the common result of falls in the elderly and in frail patients they result in excess mortality which not accounted for by age or comorbidities. We have investigated in a longitudinal cohort the value of preoperative circulating markers in predicting mortality and incidence of acute kidney injury in patient in frail individuals who suffered a hip fracture. We discuss important clinical implications for the assessment of renal function in this group of patients.