Level 3: Advanced Course in Acute Respiratory Failure & Mechanical Ventilation

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Format: Pre-congress course, LIVES
Dates: October 25-26, 2025


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The ESICM Advanced Course in ARF & MV will integrate at an advanced level topics such as COPD and Weaning (SBT). Interactive lectures will alternate with clinical case discussions, practical demonstrations and discussion of techniques.

As a participant – you still have access to the virtual classroom on the ESICM ACADEMY

Faculty

ARF & MV Pathway Directors

  • Leo HEUNKS MD, PhD Professor, Pneumologist-intensivist, Department of Intensive Care, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Lise PIQUILLOUD MD, PhD Deputy ICU Physician, Adult Intensive Care Unit, University Hospital of Lausanne, Switzerland; Senior lecturer University of Lausanne, Switzerland; Chair elect ARF section ESICM

Course Directors Level 3:

  • Leo HEUNKS MD, PhD Professor, Pneumologist-intensivist, Department of Intensive Care, Erasmus University Medical Center, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
  • Massimo Antonelli MD Professor of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore; Director of the Department of Anesthesiology and Intensive Care and Emergency Medicine, Fondazione Policlinico Universitario A.Gemelli IRCCS, Rome, Italy

Endorsement: The course is endorsed by the Acute Respiratory Failure Section, ESICM.

Objectives
  • Respiratory support in asthma and COPD
    • Understand the consequences of high airway resistance on ventilation strategy
    • Discuss controlled ventilation in COPD
    • Evaluate how to select patients with long term benefit from invasive ventilation
    • Evaluate initial respiratory support including NIV in AE-COPD
    • Discuss acceptable arterial pH during controlled ventilation and role for ECCO2R
    • Assess PEEPi and set PEEPe during assisted ventilation
    • Determine when to extubate
    • Evaluate how to treat dyspnoea during assisted ventilation
    • Demonstrate asynchrony
  • Weaning from invasive ventilation
    • Discuss SBT: why, when and how                                                  
    • How to wean neurological patients from the ventilator     
    • Get new insights tracheostomy to optimize weaning        
    • Identify cardiac origin of weaning failure 
    • Understand the role for inspiratory muscle strength training to facilitate weaning
    • Decide when to remove tracheostomy tube?
    • Determine how to prevent reintubation after difficult weaning: NIV or HFNO 
    • Set a framework to optimize weaning
Programme Content
  • Noninvasive respiratory support in acute hypoxemic failure
    • P-SILI in non-intubated patients
    • Physiological effects of HFNO vs NIV
    • Advanced respiratory support during NIV
    • Advanced respiratory support during NIV
  • Lung protective ventilation under assisted modes
    • ARDS subphenotypes and lung protective strategies
    • Energy delivered by ventilator and lung damage
    • Controlled and assisted mode impact on the lung
Requirements to join the course
  • Completed the ESICM Foundation course in ARF & MV
  • OR
  • Intensivist (in training), Anaesthesiologist (in training), or physician with at least 2 years of clinical experience in intensive care with ventilated patients
  • OR
  • Registered ICU Nurse / respiratory therapist with at least two years of experience treating ventilated patients
Accreditation

An application will be made to the UEMS EACCME® for CME accreditation of this event.