Acute respiratory failure
Hot topicChairs: A. Özsancak Ugurlu (Istanbul, Turkey), S. Levine (San Antonio, United States of America), C. Cowl (Rochester, United States of America)
Aims: to discuss 1) hot topics in respiratory critical care medicine with relevance to clinical practice such as mechanical ventilation, weaning from ventilatory support and end-stage right-sided heart failure; 2) the findings of the ERS statement on chest imaging in acute critically ill patients.