How to choose the best strategy with noninvasive ventilation?

Oral Presentation
Chairs: Lara Pisani (Bologna, Italy), João Carlos Winck (Vila Nova de Gaia, Portugal)

LATE-BREAKING ABSTRACT: Improving admission free survival with home mechanical ventilation (HMV) and home oxygen therapy (HOT) following life threatening COPD exacerbations: HoT-HMV UK Trial NCT00990132 Patrick B. Murphy (Oxted, United Kingdom), Patrick Murphy, Gill Arbane, Stephen Bourke, Peter Calverley, Lee Dowson, Nick Duffy, G. John Gibson, Phil Hughes, John R. Hurst, Keir Lewis, Rahul Mukherjee, Annabel Nickol, Nicholas Oscroft, Justin Pepperell, Sunita Rehal, Ian Smith, John Stradling, Wisia Wedizcha, Michael Polkey, Mark Elliott, Nicholas Hart
The unmet needs of home mechanical ventilator users in Europe: The patients’ perspective Sarah Masefield (Sheffield, United Kingdom), Sarah Masefield, Michele Vitacca, Nico Ambrosino
Non-invasive ventilation in acute respiratory failure: Effects of modes, obesity and body position Murat Türk (Ankara, Turkey), Murat Türk, Gül Gürsel, Müge Aydogdu
Surface respiratory EMG during different settings of non-invasive ventilation in stable COPD Marieke L. Duiverman (Groningen, Netherlands), Marieke L. Duiverman, Anouk S. Huberts, Gerrie Bladder, Peter J. Wijkstra
Fiberoptic bronchoscopy (FBO) as rescue-strategy for non-invasive ventilation (NIV) failure in acute respiratory failure (ARF) in a respiratory intensive care unit (RICU) Raffaele Scala (Arezzo, Italy), Raffaele Scala, Uberto Maccari, Giuseppina Ciarleglio, Valentina Granese, Francesco Costa, Claudia Maggiorelli, Chiara Madioni
Home non-invasive ventilation (NIV): Identification of patients at risk of non-adherence at setup Maxime Patout (Rouen, France), Maxime Patout, Gill Arbane, Jennifer Owusu-Afriyie, Laura Castaldi, Joerg Steier, Philip Marino, Nicholas Hart, Patrick Murphy
Non-invasive ventilation: Effect of a vented and a non-vented CO2 exhalation system on O2- and CO2-concentrations Karl-Josef Franke (Hagen, Germany), Karl-Josef Franke, Ulrike Domanski, Maik Schroeder, Barbara Stoehr, Georg Nilius
Impact of high-intensity non-invasive ventilation on cardiac function in stable hypercapnic COPD: A randomised cross-over trial Marieke L. Duiverman (Groningen, Netherlands), Marieke L. Duiverman, Petra Maagh, Friederike Magnet, Schmoor Claudia, Maria P. Arellano-Maric, Jan H. Storre, Peter J Wijkstra, Wolfram Windisch, Jens Callegari