Acute Respiratory Failure
Aims and Mission
The Acute Respiratory Failure (ARF) section's goal is to support and contribute to research and educational activities in pathophysiology, diagnostics, and therapy of acute respiratory failure.
Chair and Deputy
Chair: Antonio Pesenti - Milan, Italy
Deputy: John Laffey - Galway, Ireland
Membership
There are currently 228 voting members and 2002 registered members.
Please note that only voting members of the section may participate in elections for the section chair and the deputy.
If you would like to become a member of this section or would like to change your section registration, please send an email to the ESICM membership team with your request.
Update on Recent Activities
Key recent ARF section activities include the recent Consensus Conference to revise the definition of ALI/ARDS. This project, jointly supported by ESICM and the American Thoracic society, was led by Prof Marco Ranieri. The Consensus Conference took place in Berlin in advance of the recent ESICM annual conference. Prof Ranieri presented the proposed revised ARDS definition at the ESICM conference. These new criteria should increase the specificity and sensitivity of the diagnosis of ARDS, and prove a useful tool for clinicians and researchers alike. We await the publication of this definition in the near future.
A second key achievement was the Summer School Update on Mechanical Ventilation, held in Turin on June 23rd – 25th. This conference was well attended, had an excellent faculty and was a great success.
The congress programme for Lisbon 2012 has been planned well in advance, and the Chair and Deputy chair wish to thank the section members for their very constructive input to the call for session proposals.
Past Meetings
A summary of the Spring 2012 ARF Section Meeting is available here
The Autumn 2011 Newsletter [which includes summary of October 3rd Section Meeting] is available here
Minutes from 10th March 2010 meeting.
The minutes of the Section meeting held in Brussels on 25 March 2009 are available here.
Click here to read the minutes of the Section meeting held in Lisbon (23 Sept 08).
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