Practical Workshop: Noninvasive ventilation - Life support ventilation for chronic patients

Practical Workshop
Chairs: N. Ambrosino (Pisa, Italy), J-P. Janssens (Geneva, Switzerland)
Aims: Discuss the physiological rationale of applying long-term non-invasive ventilation, both in obstructive and restrictive chronic respiratory disorders and highlight the clinical results obtained in the literature.

Introduction N. Ambrosino (Pisa, Italy), J-P. Janssens (Geneva, Switzerland)
Clinical results in obstructive and restrictive patients M. W. Elliott (Leeds, United Kingdom)