📅 PRELIMINARY PROGRAM
March 11th, 2021
13.00 - 14.00h
Non Invasive Strategies. Past, Present and Future
Learning objectives
> Strategies on NIV
> Changes in the role of patients
Presentation 1
NIV strategies: where do we come from? What have we learned?
Presentation 2
NIV strategies today
Presentation 3
Strategies for the future
14.00 - 15.30h
Years in review adults: COPD, NMD & Obesity (in the last 3 years)
Learning objectives
> Identifying key papers
> Describing benefits for the patient
> New skills needed for professionals
Presentation 1
COPD
Presentation 2
NMD
Presentation 3
Obesity
Ventilatory support in children
Learning objectives
> Management of the ventilator dependent child
> Ethical implications
Presentation 1
How to manage newborn with an immaturity of the respiratory center
Presentation 2
Suggested: NIV in children: to trigger or not to trigger?
Presentation 3
When it gets tricky, do we have to tracheostomize?
Tools for chronic NIV
Learning objectives
> Masks, ventilators, protocols, monitoring…
Presentation 1
Choosing the right interface for NIV in patients
Presentation 2
Choosing the right ventilator for NIV in patients
Presentation 3
What are the main outcomes to monitor during NIV?
16.00 - 17.30h
Emerging therapies in NMD
Learning objectives
> Interesting session for both pediatrician and adult healthcare professionals
Presentation 1
Gene and pharma therapies in NMD
Presentation 2
Impact of new therapies on breathing in NMD
Presentation 3
Emerging respiratory strategies in NMD
Respiratory muscle training: physiology and new applications
Learning objectives
> Respiratory muscle training
> Respiratory muscle re-education
> Swallowing
Presentation 1
Respiratory muscle training and re-education
Presentation 2
Dysphagia
Presentation 3
Ultrasound and assessment of respiratory muscles
Supporting patients, families and carers
Learning objectives
> How to manage difficult conversations
> Phychological support and safe places
> Testimonials (video)
Presentation 1
Supporting patients and carers: what is necessary?
Presentation 2
Communication strategies - How to manage difficult conversations
Presentation 3
Support after diagnosis: a practical example
March 12th, 2021
08.30 - 10.00h
Beyond NIV in COPD
Learning objectives
> Integrated care in COPD
Presentation 1
Role of High Flow Therapy in COPD
Presentation 2
Nutrition in severe COPD
Presentation 3
Non-pharmacological management of breathlessness in COPD
Mouthpiece ventilation (What, where and how: Mouthpiece ventilation)
Learning objectives
> What, where and how: Mouthpiece ventilation
> Impact on users
Presentation 1
Physiological indications; timing for MPV and other options
Presentation 2
Practicalities; ventilators, modes, alarms, accessories
Presentation 3
Patient benefits for MPV
Years in Review Pediatrics in the last 3 years
Learning objectives
> Identifying key papers
> Describing benefits for the patient
> New skills needed for professionals
Presentation 1
Worldwide evolution of pediatric patients under NIV at home
Presentation 2
OSAS and NMD
Presentation 3
NIV in other diseases (BPD, CF, other lung diseases)
What is new in Airway Clearing Techniques
Presentation 1
New strategies
Presentation 2
New technologies
Presentation 3
ACT in severe lung diseases
10.30 - 12.00h
Acute NIV
Learning objectives
> Limits of NIV
> Equipment choice
Presentation 1
How to predict NIV failure?
Presentation 2
Modes and settings
Presentation 3
Choice of equipment (machine, interface, humidification)
The transition from pediatrics to adult care
Learning objectives
> How to transition the NMD patients
> What can be learned from transitions in other pediatric conditions
> What anxieties arise from the transition
> Patient testimonials
Presentation 1
Little patients grow up: chronic lung diseases versus NMD
Presentation 2
Transition and anxiety: the young patients, the parents and the health professionals
Presentation 3
Organizing the transition: overcoming the challenge
ALS, current and future management strategies
Presentation 1
How, where and when to introduce NIV in ALS patients?
Presentation 2
Tracheostomy and ALS? Never?
Presentation 3
Future treatments in ALS: What is new?
14.00 - 15.30h
Apnea in children
Learning objectives
> Why is the treatment cut-off different for children than for adults?
> When is CPAP enough in non-OSAS children
Presentation 1
When it is (diagnostic) - Is it too late to start?
Presentation 2
Pediatric adherence to treatment. Are kids more compliant?
Presentation 3
When is CPAP enough in central apneas?: Different cut offs in children and adults
Cardiovascular lung interactions in Chronic Respiratory Failure
Presentation 1
Cardiovascular consequences of sleep-disordered breathing and their treatment
Presentation 2
Chronic hypoventilation and right heart disease
Presentation 3
Ventilatory support and cardiopulmonary exercise performance in chronic respiratory diseases
Patient perspectives
Learning objectives
> Traveling
> Patient’s journeys: home - hospital, hospital-home, hospital-hospice
> Names matter / Language matters
Presentation 1
Sexuality & me - debunking the myths about disability/life-limiting conditions and sexuality, helping to maintain relationships and taking care of sexual identity and health
Presentation 2
Communication matters - how to start and keep communicating
Presentation 3
When to push the boundaries of hospital policy
Ethics for patients and their care
Learning objectives
> When to start ventilation?
> When to withdraw ventilation?
> How do you prepare parents for their child’s death?
Presentation 1
When to start ventilation
Presentation 2
How do you prepare family and caregivers for the patient’s death?
Presentation 3
How to withdraw ventilation
16.00 - 17.30h
NMD in children
Learning objectives
> How to manage secretions?
Presentation 1
Secretion management: How do we do it? What do we do when our techniques fail?
Presentation 2
Management of the ventilator-dependent child, ethical implications
Presentation 3
Growing up on ventilation
Weaning in the real world
Learning objectives
> Models of weaning
> Models of long-term care
> What is needed for successful weaning
Presentation 1
The importance of being proactive: ventilation strategies to favor weaning
Presentation 2
Barriers and facilitators to early rehabilitation and weaning in mechanically ventilated patients. (the patient, the team and the “weaning center”)
What are the recipes for successful weaning? Is there a recipe? (strategies)
Presentation 3
New technologies to drive weaning from mechanical ventilation (EIT, ultrasound imaging...)
Automated versus respiratory physiotherapy-driven weaning from mechanical ventilation
Round Table: Management of central apnea
Learning objectives
> Is there a role for adaptative servo-ventilation?
> Electrical stimulation
> NIV role in unknown cause of central apnea
Presentation 1
Should I treat non-cardiac Central sleep apnea?
Presentation 2
Central apnea in heart failure: where we are
Presentation 3
Advances in the treatment of Central apnea
Sleep and breathing in ALS
Presentation 1
Upper airway evaluation
Presentation 2
Sleep and ALS
Presentation 3
Ventilation strategies for unstable upper airway
March 13th, 2021
08.30 - 10.00h
Procedures in respiratory support
Learning objectives
> Gastrostomy
> Surgery: general - spinal
Presentation 1
Gastrostomy in ventilated patients
Presentation 2
Preventive ventilation and Spinal Fusion Surgery
Presentation 3
Emergency procedures: weaning management for patients on long-term ventilation
Social media: friend or foe
Learning objectives
> Benefits & Limitations
> Patient perspective
> Fake news
Presentation 1
Using social media to empower clinicians and patients
Presentation 2
The social Network: the patient perspective
Presentation 3
Pitfalls and powerlessness in the social media age
Clinical trial on HMV
Learning objectives
> Sharing the results
> Sharing methodologies
Presentation 1
Pickwick Study
Presentation 2
OPIP
Presentation 3
Geneva Lake
Big Data: The bigger the better?
Learning objectives
> How data changes decision making processes
Presentation 1
The bigger the better
Presentation 2
Small and select
Presentation 3
The real world
10.30 - 12.00h
Telemonitoring
Presentation 1
Telemonitoring versus usual care
Presentation 2
Devices for respiratory care and “wearable” technology: technology integration to monitor adherence to therapy and to prevent exacerbation
Presentation 3
What is the evidence?
Advances in pulmonary rehabilitation
Learning objectives
> Technology in rehabilitation
> Cardiopulmonary rehab
> Respiratory muscle training
Presentation 1
Respiratory Muscle training. Why and For whom?
Presentation 2
Strategies to decrease dyspnea in COPD
Presentation 3
Technology in rehabilitation (telerehabilitation)
Multidisciplinary management of Obesity-hypoventilation
Presentation 1
Non-invasive ventilation for OHS: how to choose the best ventilatory strategy?
Presentation 2
Multimodal therapeutic for weigh loss in OHS
Presentation 3
Cardiometabolic comorbidities in OHS
Pregnancy and childbirth in Chronic Respiratory Failure
Learning objectives
> Pregnancy and HMV
> Caregiving the pregnant patient
> Managing the pregnant patient on ventilation
Presentation 1
The patient experience: 2 patients (CF & NMD)
Presentation 2
Pre-pregnancy counseling
Presentation 3
Managing pregnancy in chronic respiratory failure
14.00 - 15.30h
ICU Induced weakness
Learning objectives
> Center/Unit
> Secretions / Rehabilitation
> MDT
Presentation 1
Definition of ICAMW: Who and why?
Presentation 2
Physiopathological mechanisms
Presentation 3
Early mobilization: Do it or not?
Sleep in chronic respiratory failure and under NIV
Presentation 1
Sleep-related changes in chronic respiratory failure
Presentation 2
Monitoring efficacy of NIV during sleep
Presentation 3
Asynchronies during nocturnal NIV: are they important? The SomnoNIV proposal
Aging in patients with long-term HMV
Learning objectives
> Start of ventilation > 75 years
Presentation 1
Long-term HMV: a challenge in an aging society
Presentation 2
Which outcomes matter in HMV in the elderly
Presentation 3
Home NIV and multi-morbidity
Controversies in the end of life and palliative care
Presentation 1
Is there a place for assisted suicide?
Presentation 2
When worlds collide, How to manage different views on care
Presentation 3
Advance care plans, How to ensure better patient understanding?
16.00 - 17.30h
Hot topics
Presentation 1
Impact of pandemics, like COVID-19
Invasive ventilation: Pros & cons
Presentation 2
Pros
Presentation 3
Cons