Goals

Enhance ICU clinicians’ understanding of the physiological principles informing assessment and management of mechanical ventilation and strengthen their skills in assessing patient-ventilator interaction.
Increase awareness of the many relevant aspects of conventional and novel invasive and non-invasive mechanical ventilation techniques.
Enhance ICU clinicians’ knowledge of the management of specific clinical problems in mechanically ventilated patients: acute respiratory distress syndrome, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease exacerbations, and difficult weaning from mechanical ventilation.

Objectives

Explain and assess basic physiological aspects of patient-ventilator interaction: respiratory mechanics, respiratory muscle activity and function, patient-ventilator synchrony, and ventilator-induced lung and respiratory muscle injury.
Determine why and when mechanical ventilation can be a treatment, a supportive therapy or a source of complications.
Describe the optimal approach to liberating patients from mechanical ventilation and conduct a comprehensive clinical assessment to identify and treat causes of difficult ventilator weaning.
Deliver evidence-based management of acute respiratory failure using both non-invasive and invasive ventilatory techniques for the following conditions: acute respiratory distress syndrome, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and weaning from mechanical ventilation

Content

• Respiratory Mechanics What To Measure
• Case Discussion Managing Refractory Hypoxemia and ECLS
• Prone Positioning and Inhaled Pulmonary Vasodilators
• PEEP And Lung Recruitment
• Case Discussion Spontaneous Breathing Who, When, How, And Why
• Lung and Diaphragm – Protective Ventilation
• Case Discussion Mechanical Ventilation in Acute Brain Injury
• Heart-Lung Interactions
• Patient-Ventilator Synchrony
• Determinants Of Respiratory Drive And Effort
• Control Of Breathing
• Equation Of Motion Pressures Volumes And Flow
• Conventional And Advanced Modes Of Ventilation
• High-Flow Nasal Cannula And Non-Invasive Ventilation
• How Do I Do It Assessing The Difficult To Liberate Patient
• How I Do It – Assessing Readiness For Liberation
• Oxygen Setting – Does It Matter
• Pav And Nava
• Transporting Mechanically Ventilated Patients
• Transporting Mechanically Ventilated Patients
• Understanding The Effect Of Sedation
• Evidence Based Sedation Management In Ventilated Patients
• Evidence Based Delirium Management In Ventilated Patients
• Panel Discussion How To Mobilize Ventilated Patients
• Strategies To Improve Mechanical Ventilation Quality
• Panel Discussion Enhancing Quality Of Care For Ventilated Patients