PG12 Life-threatening pulmonary infections

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: M. van der Eerden (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Aims: To discuss host susceptibility to severe lung infections, the usefulness of biomarkers for the clinical management of pneumonia, the role of NIV in supporting patients with severe pneumonia, and the measures that can prevent ventilator-associated pneumonia.

Biomarkers for clinical management M. Schultz (Amsterdam, Netherlands)
Noninvasive ventilation in severe pneumonia S. Nava (Bologna, Italy)
Preventing ventilator-associated pneumonia G. Li Bassi (Barcelona, Spain)