About this Event
Date: 8 December 2026
Time: 08:30–18:00
Venue: Ashford International Hotel, Simone Weil Ave, Ashford, Kent. TN24 8UX.
Places: Limited to 25 participants
Who should attend? Intensive care and anaesthetic trainees, SAS doctors, clinical fellows, consultants, and other clinicians involved in mechanical ventilation.
Course highlights: Lung recruitment and P–V loop interpretation, Patient–ventilator asynchrony, Oesophageal balloon insertion and validation, Transpulmonary pressure-guided ventilation, Adaptive Support Ventilation (ASV), High-fidelity, & small-group simulation
Agenda
🕑: 08:30 AM
1. Program, adjust, and troubleshoot Adaptive Support Ventilation (ASV).
Info: o Closed-loop automation and Otis’s minimum work-of-breathing principle.
o Ideal Body Weight (IBW) setup, dead space assumptions (2.2 mL/kg IBW), and %MinVol titration.
o Physiology-driven mode transitions (PCV SIMV PSV) and clinical limitations.
2. Execute a static Pressure-Volume (P-V) loop maneuver.
Info: o Pathophysiology of recruitability in ARDS (focal vs. non-focal).
o P-V curve analysis: Lower Inflection Point (LIP), Upper Inflection Point (UIP), and Hysteresis.
o Safe recruitment maneuvers and the decremental PEEP ladder protocol.
3. Identify and correct complex patient-ventilator asynchronies.
Info: o Trigger asynchronies: Ineffective efforts (Auto-PEEP), auto-triggering, double triggering, and reverse triggering.
o Flow starvation and cycling dyssynchronies (premature vs. delayed cycling).
o The Asynchrony Index (>10%) and its impact on ICU outcomes.
4. Esophageal balloon catheter
Info: o Concept of transpulmonary pressure in separating lung mechanics from chest wall mechanics.
o Esophageal balloon catheter preparation, insertion depth, and position validation via the Occlusion Test.
o Titrating PEEP to end-expiratory () and limiting end-inspiratory.
Event venue & nearby stays
Ashford International Hotel & Spa, Simone Weil Avenue, Ashford, United Kingdom
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