Plenary session: Home mechanical ventilation and daily life

• Sexuality in neuromuscular disorders
• Travelling with home mechanical ventilation (clinician and patient's perspective)
• Pregnancy and chronic respiratory failure under noninvasive ventilation
• Sports and disability

Plenary session: Patient’s and caregiver’s perspectives, home setting

• Round table

Plenary session: Community care perspective: round table on management of home mechanical ventilation

Plenary session: End of life care

• End of life issues: withdrawing the ventilator, and if so, when?; adapting settings, managing family and patient expectations
• Invasive ventilation and end-of-life: advanced care planning, withdrawing ventilatory support
• Managing dyspnea in end-stage chronic respiratory failure
• Communication with patients and family during end-of-life care in neuromuscular disorders

Plenary session: Monitoring long term noninvasive ventilation Session 2

• Role of bicarbonates in follow-up under noninvasive ventilation or as a diagnostic tool
• New tools in monitoring noninvasive ventilation: thoracic and abdominal belts, surface EMG (titration and PVA)
• What do sleep studies add to ventilator data monitoring?

Plenary session: Telemedicine

• Télémonitoring in home mechanical ventilation: update from the ERS task force
• What do the latest randomized controlled studies add?
• E-patients: what do you need to feel comfortable with telemedicine?
• Teleconsultation in home mechanical ventilation

Plenary session: High Flow Therapy

• High flow oxygen therapy (HFO) and stable COPD: is there a place in the home setting?
• HFO and chronic respiratory failure: when, how and for whom ?
• HFO and acute respiratory failure: when, how and for whom ?
• HFO and noninvasive ventilation or HFO or noninvasive ventilation?

Plenary session: Invasive ventilation

• Tracheostomy ventilation in Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis: indications, advantages/disadvantages
• Differences in long-term outcomes between invasive and non-invasive home mechanical ventilation
• How to improve speech and swallowing during invasive home mechanical ventilation
• Enablement of invasive home mechanical ventilation patients in the community: a UK experience
• Patients' experiences

Plenary session: Noninvasive ventilation in COPD

• Initiating long term mechanical ventilation in hypercapnic COPD: when?
• Long term noninvasive ventilation for COPD patients: outcome measurements and results
• Starting noninvasive ventilation at home in COPD
• Noninvasive ventilation in COPD: in which patients does it not work and what to do about specific problems such as deventialtion dyspnea

Plenary session: Noninvasive ventilation in neuromuscular disorders (Session 2)

• Medical challenges related to prolonged survival of neuromuscular disorders patients
• Focus on patient and next of kin: neuromuscular disorders patient with learning disability, children of neuromuscular disorders patients under LTMV, patient empoyerment
• Challenges of continuous noninvasive ventilation : patients and experts. Round table

Plenary session: Noninvasive ventilation in rehabilitation

• Ventilatory support in rehabilitation: which device (High flow oxygen therapy vs noninvasive ventilation), when, for whom?
• Respiratory muscles : assessment and training
• Barriers et levers to pulmonary rehabilitation
• Pulmonary telerehabilitation

Plenary session: Training of the caregivers

• Home mechanical ventilation: website resources
• The patient’s and caregiver’s perspectives and training, personalising training, caregiver training
• Development of carer training videos, use of digital tools, virtual reality training and e-competency documents

Plenary session: Airway clearance (session 1): mechanical insufflation-exsufflation: how we do it?

• Persons with neuromuscular disorders
• Pediatric patients
• Airway clearance in challenging cases
• Patient perspective

Plenary session: Airway clearance (session 2)

• Assessments to initiate airway clearance techniques
• Sputum rheology – does it matter in airway clearance?
• Updated techniques and devices for secretion management according to the disease
• Change of mechanical insufflation-exsufflation (MIE) era: from now on.

Plenary session: Into the matrix

• What does the analysis of big data bring to our clinical practice?
• Artificial intelligence and noninvasive ventilation: perspectives

Meet the expert sessions and workshops

• PtcCO2: practical aspects
• Mouthpiece ventilation: technical and practical aspects
• Simulation based training: interactive workshop
• Decanulation in the acute and chronic settings
• Physiological effects of lung volume recruitment: improving thoracic range of motion
• Medical supply disruption: the example of tracheostomy tubes