ERS International Congress 2020 Virtual: highlights from the Respiratory Intensive Care Assembly

Camille Rolland-Debord; Alexander D'Haenens; Leire Mendiluce; Lydia Spurr; Shruthi Konda; Radostina Cherneva; Elodie Lhuillier; Leo Heunks; Maxime Patout

doi:10.1183/23120541.00214-2021

ERS International Congress 2020 Virtual: highlights from the Respiratory Intensive Care Assembly

ERJ Open Res. 2021 Nov 15;7(4):00214-2021. doi: 10.1183/23120541.00214-2021. eCollection 2021 Oct.

Authors

Camille Rolland-Debord¹, Alexander D'Haenens², Leire Mendiluce³, Lydia Spurr⁴, Shruthi Konda⁵, Radostina Cherneva⁶, Elodie Lhuillier⁷, Leo Heunks⁸, Maxime Patout^{9

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Affiliations

¹ AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire APHP-Sorbonne Université, Service des Explorations Fonctionnelles de la Respiration de l'Exercice et de la Dyspnée, Hôpital Tenon, Paris, France.
² Dept of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospitals Leuven, Leuven, Belgium.
³ Ventilation Unit and Respiratory Semi-Critical Care Unit, Dept of Respiratory Medicine, University Hospital Germans Trias i Pujol, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
⁴ Academic and Clinical Dept of Sleep and Breathing, Royal Brompton and Harefield Hospitals, London, UK.
⁵ Dept of Respiratory Medicine, Royal Brompton Hospital, London, UK.
⁶ Medical University, Sofia, Dept of Respiratory Diseases, University Hospital 'St Sophia', Sofia, Bulgaria.
⁷ Unité de recherche clinique, Centre Henri Becquerel, Rouen, France.
⁸ Dept of Intensive Care, Amsterdam University Medical Center, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
⁹ AP-HP, Groupe Hospitalier Universitaire APHP-Sorbonne Université, Service des Pathologies du Sommeil (Département R3S), Paris, France.
¹⁰ Sorbonne Université, INSERM, UMRS1158 Neurophysiologie Respiratoire Expérimentale et Clinique, Paris, France.

Abstract

During the virtual European Respiratory Society Congress 2020, early career members summarised the sessions organised by the Respiratory Intensive Care Assembly. The topics covered included diagnostic strategies in patients admitted to the intensive care unit with acute respiratory failure, with a focus on patients with interstitial lung disease and for obvious reasons, severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection. These sessions are summarised in this article, with take-home messages highlighted.