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Understanding the Control of Breathing to Optimize Patient Ventilator Interactions CCR Journal Watch  criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidenc…

⚡️New in #CriticalCare: Neuromuscular electrical stimulation for early rehabilitation in critically ill patients: a systematic review of applied protocols doi.org/qtkz #CritCare #Neuromuscular #Rehabilitation

Speaker Spotlight! Thiago Bassi, Catherine Bellissimo, and Lorenzo Del Sorbo will be speaking at this CME-accredited course – join us! Check out the program: #schedule" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">mechanicalventilation.ca/#schedule Register: mechanicalventilation.ca #MVCourse2026 #ICU #CriticalCare #MedEd #mechvent

Dear friends the Organizing Committee has decided to relocate the event to a new venue to ensure the best possible experience for sponsors, speakers, and attendees. 📍 Location: Toronto, Canada
📅 Date: September 24–26, 2026 (unchanged)

CCCF Mechanical Ventilation Course: ARDS & Hands-on. ⚠️ Warning: This course always sells out. 💸 Early Bird ends Feb 28th. Register now: mechanicalventilation.ca #MedTwitter #FOAMed #CritCare #RespiratoryTherapy

RT @irene_telias: We organized with #LaurentBorchard, @ecgoligher, @nialldferguson an exciting one-day mechanical ventilation symposium on…

“At #ESICM2025 @ESICM in Munich! 🩺 @DrLeoHeunks kicks off the session on intensive care for the elderly with an inspiring talk. Follow us updates for more highlights from the congress! #CriticalCare #Munich”

Very interesting talk about PSV switch and lung/diaphragm protection from @joaquin_perez9! 3rd physiological Symposiumin of the #PLUG working group in #Barcelona

¡Welcome to the PLUG Symposium Barcelona 2025 😎!

Delirium is amongst the most frustrating things our patients and their families experience in their ICU stay. This table could prove helpful in demonstrating to them why their behavior is as it is. 🎩 tip to the authors. eddyjoemd.com/foamed

Personalized driving pressure-guided positive end-expiratory pressure in patients at risk of postoperative respiratory failure (IMPROVE-2): a multicenter, pragmatic, randomized clinical trial CCR Journal Watch - tracking the critical care literature daily criticalcarereviews.com/latest-evidenc…

📊Real-Time Respiratory Effort Monitoring—No Invasive Tools Needed This study presents a novel, bedside, non-invasive method to monitor respiratory muscle pressure (N-Pmus) in real time. ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… 📅Submit to Non-invasive Respiratory Support in #CritCare collection!

🩺Monitoring Matters in Acute Respiratory Failure How can we minimize harm and detect treatment failure early during non-invasive respiratory support? ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… 📅 Submit to the Non-invasive Respiratory Support in #CritCare collection by August 31! @jlvincen

🫁Review in #CritCare | Imaging in Critical Care Collection How can we better visualize respiratory muscle function in the ICU? 🔗ccforum.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11… 📅 Submit to the collection by August 16: biomedcentral.com/collections/IC… #RespiratoryMuscles #MedicalImaging #Ultrasound #MRI

The June 2025 issue is online! This issue contains the papers from the 2024 Journal Conference on Pediatric Asthma: Management Across the Continuum of Care. Table of Contents: liebertpub.com/toc/respcare/7… Editor’s Commentary: liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/re… Podcasts: home.liebertpub.com/lpages/respira…

The @ISHLT Consensus Statement on periop use of #ECLS in lung #transplantation: III - Postoperative Considerations 🫁 planning: criteria for postoperative #ECLS 🫁 postoperative ECLS implementation 🫁 management 🫁 ECLS rescue outcomes, weaning criteria, novel multicenter registry expansion #FOAMcc #FOAMecmo 🔓 bit.ly/3ZaYdwD PS Part II Intraoperative Considerations available at 🔓 bit.ly/40fB5OQ

B82 Mechanical Ventilation of the Future #ATS2025 Should we protect the lung or diaphragm for patients receiving mechanical ventilation? Why not both! @ecgoligher explains how diaphragm protective strategies can protect the lung @PulmPEEPs @SarinaKS @CatGaoHow @atscommunity

Sorg and McHenry developed an online survey to compare the current practice of spontaneous breathing trials (SBT) to the most recent AARC clinical practice guideline which addressed SBT implementation. Paper: liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/re… Editorial: liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/re…

#CritCare #OpenAccess Advancements in imaging techniques for monitoring the respiratory muscles Read the full article: doi.org/10.1186/s13054… @jlvincen @ISICEM #FOAMed #FOAMcc

#CritCare #OpenAccess Individualized PEEP can improve both pulmonary hemodynamics and lung function in acute lung injury Read the full article: doi.org/10.1186/s13054… @jlvincen @ISICEM #FOAMed #FOAMcc