2nd Edition - SMART Course on Mechanical Ventilation

MAIN TOPICS

• Why do we ventilate? Pathophysiology of gas exchange
• Controlled mechanical ventilation settings: basics
• How to assess respiratory mechanics at the bedside
• Strategies to set PEEP and to evaluate lung recruitment/over distension
• Imaging techniques to guide mechanical ventilation: Computed Tomography
• Imaging techniques to guide mechanical ventilation: Ultrasound + EIT
• Heart-lung interaction during controlled ventilation
• Assisted mechanical ventilation settings: basics
• Evaluating patient’s ventilator synchrony
• Non-invasive ventilations: indications and caveats
• Non-invasive ventilations: which interfaces and which modes?
• Non-conventional forms of ventilation: APRV/PAV/NAVA
• Transpulmonary pressure and lung volumes
• Weaning from mechanical ventilation
• Heart-lung interaction during assisted ventilation
• Prone position theoretical and practical aspects
• Role of ECMO in the treatment of acute respiratory failure
• SIMULATED CASES ON THE SCREEN

(with real ventilators)