ERS International Congress, Madrid, 2019: highlights from the Respiratory Intensive Care Assembly

Celal Satici; Daniel López-Padilla; Annia Schreiber; Aileen Kharat; Ema Swingwood; Luigi Pisani; Maxime Patout; Lieuwe D Bos; Raffaele Scala; Marcus J Schultz; Leo Heunks

doi:10.1183/23120541.00331-2019

ERS International Congress, Madrid, 2019: highlights from the Respiratory Intensive Care Assembly

ERJ Open Res. 2020 Mar 9;6(1):00331-2019. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00331-2019. eCollection 2020 Jan.

Authors

Celal Satici¹, Daniel López-Padilla², Annia Schreiber³, Aileen Kharat⁴, Ema Swingwood⁵, Luigi Pisani⁶, Maxime Patout⁷, Lieuwe D Bos^{6

8}, Raffaele Scala⁹, Marcus J Schultz^{6

10

11}, Leo Heunks¹²

Affiliations

¹ Respiratory Medicine, Istanbul Gaziosmanpasa Training and Research Hospital, Health Science University, Istanbul, Turkey.
² Respiratory Dept, Gregorio Marañón University Hospital, Spanish Sleep Network, Madrid, Spain.
³ Interdepartmental Division of Critical Care, University of Toronto, Unity Health Toronto (St Michael's Hospital) and the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, Toronto, Canada.
⁴ Pulmonology Dept, Hôpitaux Universitaires de Genève, Geneva, Switzerland.
⁵ University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust, Adult Therapy Services, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol, UK.
⁶ Intensive Care, Amsterdam UMC, Location AMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
⁷ Rouen University Hospital, Rouen, France.
⁸ Respiratory Medicine, Amsterdam UMC, Location AMC, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
⁹ Pulmonology and Respiratory Intensive Care Unit, S. Donato Hospital, Arezzo, Italy.
¹⁰ Mahidol-Oxford Tropical Medicine Research Unit (MORU), Mahidol University, Bangkok, Thailand.
¹¹ Nuffield Dept of Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
¹² Intensive Care, Amsterdam UMC, Location VUmc, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

Abstract

The Respiratory Intensive Care Assembly of the European Respiratory Society is delighted to present the highlights from the 2019 International Congress in Madrid, Spain. We have selected four sessions that discussed recent advances in a wide range of topics: from acute respiratory failure to cough augmentation in neuromuscular disorders and from extra-corporeal life support to difficult ventilator weaning. The subjects are summarised by early career members in close collaboration with the Assembly leadership. We aim to give the reader an update on the most important developments discussed at the conference. Each session is further summarised into a short list of take-home messages.