PG3 - Respiratory failure: ABC of noninvasive and invasive mechanical ventilation

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: B. Schönhofer (Hanover, Germany), J-F. Muir (Rouen, France)
Aims: This is the second course in a three-year postgraduate core curriculum covering the main issues in mechanisms, diagnosis and management of respiratory failure. The aims of this module are:
• to address the problem that, in recent years, pneumologists have increasingly been required to manage some types of acute respiratory failure that in the past were handled almost entirely by intensivists and/or anaesthesiologists;
• to focus, in particular, on the increasing use of noninvasive ventilation outside the ICU which has created a need for better training and knowledge of the various modalities of ventilation among pneumologists;
• to teach and illustrate the basis of noninvasive and invasive mechanical ventilation for those who are new to the technique or to experts who want to improve and update their knowledge.

The basis of spontaneous and assisted breathing S. Nava (Pavia, Italy)
Ventilatory strategies in obstructive patients M. W. Elliott (Leeds, United Kingdom)
Ventilatory strategies in hypoxic patients W. Windisch (Freiburg, Germany)
Novel ventilatory and monitoring approaches F. Masa (Caceres, Spain)