Acute Respiratory Failure
Aims and Missions
The Section on Acute Respiratory Failure goal is to support and contribute research and educational activities on pathophysiology, diagnostics, and therapy of acute respiratory failure.
Currently, there is a great interest in investigating the predisposing factors - both genetic and the co-morbidities - on the development and outcome of the Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS). This is targeted by the Genome Acute Lung Injury European Network (GALIEN) project of which Yoram Weiss, Jerusalem, is the coordinator
Chair and deputy
Christian Putensen - Bonn, Germany
Claude Guerin - Lyon, France
Membership
There are currently 239 voting members and 1198 registered members.
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Activities
A second, clinical oriented project will be designed to evaluate the effect of PEEP in patients with ARDS. Patients with prevalent lung collapse (e.g. ARDS secondary to sepsis) do recruit with PEEP, while patients with prevalent consolidations (e.g. ARDS caused by diffuse pneumonia) do not. Hence, higher PEEP-levels may be beneficial in recruiters while may be less effective, useless or even harmful in non-recruiters. If so, it is quite understandable that randomizing the ARDS patients to high or low PEEP without taking in account the status of recruiter or non-recruiter may obscure the usefulness of PEEP and its possible beneficial or negative may cancel each other. Therefore, the effect of PEEP on outcome in patients with ARDS will take into account the status of recruiter or non-recruiter.
Beside the scientific projects, the education of young physicians is a major interest of the Section. Hence, for the upcoming Annual ESICM Congress in Berlin 2004 interactive Educational Sessions and a Postgraduate Course are being organized. The interactive Educational Sessions will be held in cooperation with the American Thoracic Society on Chronic Obstructive Disease (COPD). With an interactive design the latest news on mechanical ventilation and drug therapy in COPD patients will be offered. We believe that education on COPD, a frequent disease associated with complications and co-morbidities is of great importance for the practicing intensivist. Competency teaching sessions on acute respiratory failure and airway management are planned as PACT modules-based educational tracks. The Postgraduate Course on non-invasive mechanical ventilation should give the participants the ability to learn the scientific essentials and the practical skills to use non-invasive mechanical ventilation in critically ill patients. Industry sponsored workshops will allow the participants to train the practical skills. The Postgraduate Course is designed for physicians, nurses and/or physiotherapists working in the ICU.
Meetings agenda and minutes
The next meeting of the section will be held on Monday 8 October 2007 from 15.00 to 17.00 in room 44 of the Internationales Congress Centrum Berlin (ICC Berlin), Neue Kantstrasse- 14057 Berlin.
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