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Noninvasive ventilation: basic concepts

Target audience

Pulmonologists
Intensivists
Emergency Medicine Physicians
Physiotherapists
Nurses

Educational aims

This course provides participants with an overview of the basic technical skills and clinical information to enable safe use of noninvasive ventilation. NIV has been increasingly used in recent years, both in the acute and long-term setting. Accordingly, the number of health care professionals exposed to this technique has also increased.

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Programme
NIV in acute hypercapnic respiratory failure B. Schönhofer (Hannover, Germany)
NIV in non-cardiac hypoxemic respiratory failure R. Scala (Arezzo, Italy)
NIV in acute and chronic cardiac disease T. Köhnlein (Hanover, Germany)
NIV in neuromuscular diseases A. Simonds (London, United Kingdom)
Indications for long-term NIV in chronic respiratory failure J.P. Janssens (Geneva, Switzerland)
Basic principles of ventilators and interfaces – what you need to know T. Köhnlein (Hanover, Germany)
NIV, cough assist and other secretion management techniques M. Gonçalves (Porto, Portugal)
Air leakage during NIV: How important, how to avoid, how to handle? Wijkstra (Groningen, Netherlands)
Should I set my patient up in the hospital or the outpatients? N. Hart (London, United Kingdom)
Monitoring of NIV in the acute setting R. Scala (Arezzo, Italy)
Monitoring of NIV in the chronic setting P. Wijkstra (Groningen, Netherlands)
NIV in paediatric patients and managing transition to adult care M. Chatwin (London, United Kingdom)
Specific problems when using NIV in COPD W. Windisch (Cologne, Germany)
Practical approach to discharging the NIV patient to home N. Hart (London, United Kingdom)
Workstation 1: Ventilators used for NIV J.P. Janssens (Geneva, Switzerland), N. Hart (London, United Kingdom)
Workstation 3: How to start NIV in the acute setting R. Scala (Arezzo, Italy), B. Schönhofer (Hannover, Germany)