Update on Acute Respiratory Failure

Goals:

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Main topics

• ARDS: useful or useless concept?
  
• Optimal fluid balance vs fluid restriction
  
• A tidal volume of 6 ml/kg for everybody?
  
• Still a place for fancy modes of mechanical ventilation?
  
• What place for non-invasive ventilation?
  
• How to adjust PEEP
  
• VA-ECMO: sometimes just postponing death
  
• Improving patient-ventilator interactions
  
• Optimal cardiorespiratory monitoring
  
• Measurements of extravascular lung water: really useful?
  
• When and how to start ECMO
  
• What to strive for: paralysis or ambulation?
  
• ECMO: practical management
  
• New therapeutic interventions in the pipeline
  
• When to organize patient transfer for ECMO