Room 1

13:00-14:00

Welcome

Kathleen Grant

Jean Paul Janssens

NIV acute and chronic strategies: where do we come from? What have we learned?

Mark Eliott

Strategies in acute: the development of algorithms for the intensive care ventilators.

Jean Christian Borel

Room 1

14:00-15:30

COPD, NMD & Obesity: important messages from the past 3 years

COPD

To be confirmed

Neuro muscular diseases

Juana Martínez Llorens

Juan Fernando Masa

Room 2

14:00-15:30

Ventilatory support in children

How to manage newborn with an immaturity of the respiratory center

To be confirmed

Suggested: NIV in children: to trigger or not to trigger?

Martí Pons

When it gets tricky, do we have to tracheostomize?

To be confirmed

Room 3

14:00-15:30

Tools for chronic NIV

Choosing the right interface for NIV in patients

To be confirmed

Choosing the right ventilator for NIV in patients

Bart Vrjsen

What are the main outcomes to monitor during NIV?

João Carlos Winck

Room 4

14:00-15:30

Ethical considerations

When to start ventilation: ICU admissions

To be confirmed

Family, carer and staff in hospital setting preparing for treatment withdrawal

Anita Simonds

How to withdraw treatment

To be confirmed

Room 5

14:00-15:30

Airway clearance at home with invasive and non-invasive ventilation

Room 1

16:00-17:30

Emerging therapies in NMD

Gene and pharma therapies in NMD

Francesco Muntoni

Anita Simonds

To be confirmed

To be confirmed

Quentin de Halleux

Room 2

16:00-17:30

Respiratory problems and Covid-19: what have we learnt  

Acute COVID and the lung: physiopathology of hypoxemia: Should be intubated 

Michele Vitacca

Ventilatory support in acute COVID: IMV, NIV, High Flow Oxygen, Prone position?

Joan Ramón Badía

Long-term respiratory problems post-Covid

To be confirmed

Room 3

16:00-17:30

Respiratory muscle training: physiology & new applications

Assessment of respiratory muscle function in NMD

To be confirmed

Respiratory muscle training and re-education

To be confirmed

Ultrasound and assessment of respiratory muscles

To be confirmed

Room 4

16:00-17:30

Supporting patients & caregivers: What do they really need?

Supporting patients and carers: what to do really need?

To be confirmed

Communication strategies: how to manage difficult conversations

To be confirmed

Experience of a systematic psychological consultation after diagnosis of ALS

To be confirmed

Room 5

16:00-17:30

Simulation and physiology of ventilation (NIV & MV)

Room 1

08:30-10:00

Beyond NIV in COPD

Role of High Flow Therapy in COPD

To be confirmed

Nutrition in severe COPD

To be confirmed

Non-pharmacological management of breathlessness in COPD

To be confirmed

Room 2

08:30-10:00

Mouthpiece ventilation (What, where and how: Mouthpiece ventilation)

Physiological indications; timing for MPV and other options

Josh Benditt

Practicalities; ventilators, modes, alarms, accessories

Michel Toussaint

Patient benefits for MPV

To be confirmed

Room 3

08:30-10:00

Years in Review Pediatrics in the last 3 years

Worldwide evolution of pediatric patients under NIV at home

Brigitte Fauroux

OSAS and NMD

To be confirmed

NIV in other diseases (BPD, CF, other lung diseases)

Maria Cols

Room 4

08:30-10:00

What is new in Airway Clearing Techniques (acute & chronic)

UK survey on MIE settings

Michelle Chatwin

Instrumental support for airway clearance

Ana Balañá

Airway Clearing techniques in the ICU

Ema Swingwood

Room 5

08:30-10:00

Tracheostomy in long term home mechanical ventilation

To be confirmed

Room 1

10:30-12:00

Acute NIV

Modes and settings

Lise Piquilloud

Choice of equipment (machine, interface, humidification)

To be confirmed

How to predict NIV failure?

To be confirmed

Room 2

10:30-12:00

The transition from pediatrics to adult care

Little patients grow up: chronic lung diseases versus NMD

Paolo Buonpensiero

Transition and anxiety: the young patients, the parents and the health professionals

To be confirmed

Organizing the transition: overcoming the challenge

Martí Pons

Room 3

10:30-12:00

How, when, and where should we introduce NIV in ALS patients?

How, where, and when to introduce NIV in ALS patients?  

To be confirmed

Tracheostomy and ALS: is it still an option?

To be confirmed

Managing oropharyngeal secretions in ALS

To be confirmed

Room 4

10:30-12:00

Rehabilitation in training long COVID

Diagnosing and managing dysfunctional breathing

To be confirmed

Exercise training in long- COVID

To be confirmed

Sleep disturbances

To be confirmed

Room 5

10:30-12:00

Caregiver

Room 1

14:00-15:30

Apnea in children

When it's late (diagnostic), is it too late to start? Diagnostic in children: Why are we still late?

To be confirmed

Pediatric adherence to treatment. Are kids more compliant?

To be confirmed

When is CPAP enough in central apneas: different cut offs in children and adults

To be confirmed

Room 2

14:00-15:30

Cardiovascular lung interactions in Chronic Respiratory Failure

Cardiovascular consequences of sleep-disordered breathing and their treatment

To be confirmed

Chronic hypoventilation and right heart disease

To be confirmed

Ventilatory support and cardiopulmonary exercise performance in chronic respiratory diseases

Jean Christian Borel

Room 3

14:00-15:30

Patient perspectives

SEXUALITY - debunking the myths

To be confirmed

COMMUNICATION MATTERS - how to start and keep communicating

To be confirmed

Open discussion

Room 4

14:00-15:30

Quality in HMV: clinical objectives or monitoring sleep?

Esther Irène Schwarz

Annalisa Carlucci

Tiina Andersen

Manel Luján

To be confirmed

Room 5

14:00-15:30

Remote follow up in HMV: practical issue

Room 1

16:00-17:30

Respiratory management in pediatric NMD

Secretion management: How we do it? What do we do when our technique fails?

Miguel Gonçalves

Management of the ventilator-dependent child, ethical implications

Alba Torrent

Growing up on ventilation

Anita Simonds

Room 2

16:00-17:30

Weaning in the real world

European study on weaning

To be confirmed

What's the use of a "weaning center”?

Bernd Schönhofer

To be confirmed

To be confirmed

Room 3

16:00-17:30

Management of central apnea

Central sleep apnea of non-cardiac origin: should it be treated? 

Jean Paul Janssens

Central sleep apnea in chronic heart failure: where are we today?

To be confirmed

Advances in the treatment of Central apnea

To be confirmed

Room 4

16:00-17:30

Sleep and breathing in ALS

Evaluation of the upper airway

Tiina Andersen

Sleep and ALS

Bart Vrijsen

Ventilation strategies for unstable upper airway

Marjolaine Georges

Room 5

16:00-17:30

Swallowing disorders

Room 1

08:30-10:00

Doing it right: undergoing procedures when using respiratory support  

Gastrostomy

Jesús Sancho

Bronchoscopy

To be confirmed

Spinal Fusion Surgery

To be confirmed

Room 2

08:30-10:00

Social media: friend or foe

Using social media to empower clinicians and patients

To be confirmed

The social Network: the patient perspective

Patient

Power and pitfalls in social media

Alanna Hare

Room 3

08:30-10:00

Clinical trials on HMV

The Pickwick Study

Juan Fernando Masa

Outpatient NIV set-up in obesity hypoventilation - the OPIP study

To be confirmed

Long-Term Non-invasive Ventilation in the Geneva Lake Area: a cross-sectional, observational study

Jean Paul Janssens

Room 4

08:30-10:00

Big Data: Does size really matter?

The bigger the better

To be confirmed

Small is beautiful

Patrick Murphy

Big data and real world

Joan Escarrabill

Room 5

08:30-10:00

Cystic fibrosis

Room 1

10:30-12:00

Telemonitoring

WHY: What does telemonitoring add to clinical care?

João Carlos Winck

WHAT: Devices and "wearables" for telemonitoring

To be confirmed

WHEN: Using teledata to predict exacerbations

Jean Christian Borel

Room 2

10:30-12:00

Advances in pulmonary rehabilitation

Respiratory Muscle training. Why and for whom?

Marc Beaumont

Strategies to decrease dyspnea in COPD

To be confirmed

Technology in rehabilitation (telerehabilitation)

Anne Holland

Room 3

10:30-12:00

Multidisciplinary management of Obesity-hypoventilation

Non-invasive ventilation strategies in obesity hypoventilation

Juan Fernando Masa

Multimodal therapies for weight loss in obesity

Nicholas Hart

Managing comorbidities in the obese patient

Patrick Murphy

Room 4

10:30-12:00

Pregnancy and childbirth in Chronic Respiratory Failure

The patient experience: 2 patients (CF & NMD)

Patient

Pre-pregnancy counseling

To be confirmed

Managing pregnancy in chronic respiratory failure

Anita Simonds

Room 5

10:30-12:00

The patient experience of home mechanical ventilation: overcoming the challenges?

Joan Escarrabill

Cátia Caneiras

To be confirmed

Room 1

14:00-15:30

ICU Induced weakness

Definition of ICAMW: Who and why?

Lise Piquilloud

Physio pathological mechanisms

Nicholas Hart

Early mobilization: To do or not to do?

To be confirmed

To be confirmed

To be confirmed

Room 2

14:00-15:30

Sleep in chronic respiratory failure and under NIV

Sleep-related changes in chronic respiratory failure

Jean Paul Janssens

Monitoring efficacy of NIV during sleep

Manel Luján

Asynchronies during nocturnal NIV: are they important? The Somno NIV proposal

Claudio Rabec

Room 3

14:00-15:30

Controversies in end of life and palliative care

Assisted suicide: where is it accepted and why?

To be confirmed

Culture shocks and end-of-life care

To be confirmed

Advance care plans: how to ensure better patient understanding?

To be confirmed

Room 4

14:00-15:30

Future of HMV after COVID

Lessons learned: needs, network and remote

Joan Escarrabill

To be confirmed

Is there a new horizon for home care after COVID?

Tiina Andersen

Cátia Caneiras

Michelle Chatwin

COVID: Fears and learning from patients' point of view

To be confirmed

Room 5

14:00-15:30

Practical issues in HMV in children

Practical issues in interface choice

Maria Cols

Mouthpiece ventilation

Miguel Gonçalves