PG6 - Respiratory failure: noninvasive ventilation and techniques of diagnosis for hypoxic respiratory failure

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: B. Schonhofer (Hannover, Germany), M. Vitacca (Gussago, Italy)
Aims: This is the first course in a three-year postgraduate core curriculum covering the main issues in mechanisms, diagnosis and management of respiratory failure. The main aim of this first module in the series is to focus on the use of noninvasive ventilation (NIV) in hypoxic respiratory failure. At the end of the course, participants will be able to:
• better understand the physiology of the different mechanisms leading to hypoxic respiratory failure;
• better discriminate about the correct use or the œabuse of NIV in the different pathologies;
• choose the best diagnostic procedures. Target audience: Pneumologists, intensivists, emergency medicine doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists.

Hypoxic respiratory failure: same umbrella for different diseases? M. W. Elliott (Leeds, United Kingdom)
Diagnostic procedures to detect the causes of hypoxic respiratory failure: is being less invasive necessarily better? M. Ferrer Monreal (Barcelona, Spain)
How should I ventilate my patients: invasive versus noninvasive approaches P. Pelosi (Milan, Italy)
Who should treat these patients: intensivists or pneumologists? C. Davidson (London, United Kingdom)