Respiratory critical care

State of the art session
Chairs: A. Simonds (London, United Kingdom), T. Troosters (Leuven, Belgium)
Aims: To describe the diagnostic approach and differential diagnosis of critically ill patients with acute respiratory failure; and to describe the indications and contraindications for invasive diagnostic techniques in these patients.

The role of computed tomography scanning in the differential diagnosis of acute respiratory failure in ventilated patients M. Prokop (Nijmegen, Netherlands)
Role of BAL / lung biopsy in the diagnosis of acute respiratory failure in intensive care unit patients V. Poletti (Forlì, Italy)
The future of pulmonary diagnostics in intensive care unit patients L. Bos (Amsterdam, Netherlands)