Noninvasive ventilation: basic concepts

Noninvasive ventilation: basic concepts
2-3 February, 2017 (Hanover, Germany)
Early-bird registration deadline: 11 November, 2016
Bursary deadline: 2 October, 2016
This course provides participants with an overview of the
basic technical skills and clinical information to enable safe
use of noninvasive ventilation. NIV has been increasingly
used in recent years, both in the acute and long-term setting. Accordingly, the number of
health care professionals exposed to this technique has also increased.
Organising committee:
B. Schönhofer (Hanover, Germany)
S. Raffaele (Arrezo, Italy)
N. Hart (London, United Kingdom)
Target audience:
Pulmonologists
Intensivists
Emergency Medicine Physicians
Physiotherapists
Course format:
Lectures
Hands on workshops
Topics:
Physiological and clinical rationale for NIV
Technical issues
Clinical applications
Clinical cases
Hands on interfaces
Cough machines
Home ventilators
Hospital ventilators
Learning outcomes:
Following this course, participants will be able to treat patients of mild to moderate severity
in varying settings. They will be provided with the basic knowledge to start a NIV programme
in either a hospital or a domestic setting.
Upcoming courses in 2016:
 Summer School of adult/paediatric respiratory medicine, 15-18 June, 2016 (Lisbon,
Portugal)
 Skills Course on Endoscopic lung volume reduction, 29 June-1 July, 2016 (Heidelberg, Germany)
 ERS course on Lung cancer and pleural malignancies: from science to daily practice,
27–29 October, 2016 (Budapest, Hungary)
 Online course on How to communicate effectively with patients, 1-22 November, 2016
Further information http://www.ersnet.org/education/courses.html

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