The Clinical Update Sleep 2016 is to be held in the Royal College of Physicians, London on 26 February 2016. This international conference on sleep disorders will review the latest evidence for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with sleep disorders, including obstructive sleep apnoea, hypersomnia, parasomnia and insomnia (https://www.guysandstthomasevents.co.uk/international-conference-clinical-update-sleep-2016/).
The Journal of Thoracic Disease (JTD) is the publisher of the conference proceedings. We sincerely appreciate the efforts and kind supports from the authors, reviewers and readers.The column on the 2014 event is available at https://www.jthoracdis.com/issue/view/140. In February of 2016, a focused issue on this Clinical Update Sleep 2016, with Dr. Joerg Steier as the guest editor, will be released and distributed to the attendees. Some of the papers to be released in this issue are as follows:
Clinical Update Sleep
Joerg Steier, C Ratneswaran
Review on COPD and OSA
Walter McNicholas
Pediatric Cases of Sleep Apnoea
Hui-Leng Tan
The Sympathetic Nervous System and CatecholaminesMetabolism in OSAS
Gian Paolo Rossi, Martino Pengo
ENT Aspects of OSA
BhikKotecha, Jagdeep Virk
Update in Non-Invasive ventilation
Luke Hodgson, Patrick Murphy
OSA and comorbidities
Brian Kent
Bariatric patients and sleep-disordered breathing
Kate Reed, JoergSteier
See you next February in London!