Transcript Report to IPCRG Family Physician Airways Group of Canada

Report to IPCRG
Family Physician Airways Group of
Canada
Who we are
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1400 members across Canada
Executive from all 10 provinces
Chair: Alan Kaplan
Vice Chair: Anthony Ciavarella
Secretary Treasurer: Robert Hauptman
Administrator: Glyn Smith
Things we have done
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Education
Guideline Representation
Committee Representation
Tools for practice
Research
Education
• Mainpro C Spirometry program done at individual provincial College
of Family Physician assemblies, national College of Family Physician
assembly, Primary Care Today annual meeting. We have been
instrumental in teaching spirometric interpretation to 100s of
Canadian physicians and have created abstracts on this at both ERS
and IPCRG meetings.
• Invited speakers for numerous presentations ranging on asthma,
COPD, TB, RTI, Pertussis, Rhinitis, Device optimization, Action Plans,
influenza and vaccination and smoking cessation.
• The FPAGC is the Lung Health Portal guide to MD Briefcase, an
internet educational program reaching over 2000 doctors per
program on topics including TB, Influenza, Asthma, COPD, Rhinitis,
Vaccination and Action Plans
Guideline representation
• Representation on Canadian guidelines for
Asthma, COPD, Sinusitis, Alpha-One
Antitrypsin deficiency, and Smoking Cessation.
• Reviewer of GINA guidelines (Kaplan)
Membership in:
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Public Health Agency of Canada Section of Allergy and Respiratory
Therapeutics
Health Canada Section of Allergy and Respiratory Therapeutics
Canadian Thoracic Society metropolitan TB subcommittee
CTS Guidelines dissemination and implementation committee
Health Care Ontario programs on COPD utilization.
Educational programs for pharmaceutical companies, multiple
Educational programs for Allied Health personnel, eg., pharmacy, RTs,
CREs. including COPD Trec, AsthmaTrec and SpiroTrec.
Canadian Family Physicians of Canada Special Interest Focussed Practice
Group in Respiratory Medicine.
Canadian Severe Asthma Network
Canadian Severe Asthma Working Group
Canadian Network for Respiratory Care
Advisory Boards for a number of national and international
pharmaceutical companies
Editorial board, Primary Care Respiratory Journal
Tools available on website:
www.fpagc.com
• Asthma Action Plan
• COPD Action Plan
• Asthma Flow Sheet
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COPD Flow Sheet
Anaphylaxis Action plans
Infection predictor models such as BAP 6
Sleep Apnea screeners
Spirometry interpretation algorithms
and others.
Research
• Chair, Dr. Andrew Cave
• Projects on Asthma Tools, COPD Tools, Alpha
one antitrypsin deficiency
Education
• Presentation at IPCRG Athens on Spirometry
Technique
• 6 abstracts submitted to program
• Previous presentations at IPCRG meetings.
Education: new
• First (of hopefully annual) Primary Care
Respiratory Medical Day in April 2014 in
Calgary, Alberta
Recent publications
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Ciclesonide delivery in the small airways: serving a newfound need. Kaplan A. Hot Topics in
Respiratory Medicine. Volume 8, Issue 23: 2013
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Asthma Performance Indicators, National Strategy Workshop Proceedings. Quality Indicators and
Primary Care; are we ready? Kaplan A. Can Resp J. Volume 20.No 4. July/August e9-10
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Barnes N, Calverley PMA, Kaplan A, Rabe KF. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and
exacerbations: Patient insights from the global Hidden Depths of COPD survey. BMC Pulmonary
Medicine 2013;13:54.
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Barnes N, Calverley PMA, Kaplan A, Rabe KF. Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and
exacerbations: Clinician insights from the global Hidden Depths of COPD survey. Current Medical
Research & Opinion. doi:10.1185/03007995.2013.867842
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Kaplan A, Gruffydd-Jones K, van Gemert F, Kirenga B, Medford A. A woman with breathlessness: a
practical approach to diagnosis and management. Prim Care Respir J 2013; 22
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Kaplan A. Canadian Guidelines for chronic Sinusitis, a clinical summary. Canadian Family Physician.
December 2013. Volume 59. No. 12; 1275-1281