Adult and pediatric critical care is a pillar of the American Thoracic Society. Sessions at the conference range from new approaches to mechanical ventilation to the long-term consequences of having been an ICU patient to end-of-life issues.  Below is a select list of sessions of interest to the healthcare professionals working in the ICU and to researchers interested in the field:

Critical Care

• Incorporating Ultrasound & Echocardiography into ICU Practice*
• Improving Communication & Resolving Conflict at the End of Life+
• Comparative Effectiveness Research: Why Now?
• Mechanical Ventilation: State of the Art*
• Shock Revisited
• How Are We Using Mechanical Ventilation? A New Approach
• The Intensity of Intensive Care: Is More Better?
• Extracorporeal Gas Exchange: Beyond Mechanical Ventilation for Acute Respiratory Failure
• Intensive Care Unit Monitoring: Everything You Wanted to Know, But Were Afraid to Ask*
• Preventing & Treating the “Dwindles” of Chronic Critical Illness
• The Consequence of Five Important Papers: From the Author (and the Editor)
• Long-Term Outcomes after the Intensive Care Unit
• (Non)Permissive Hypercapnia: Bench to Bedside
• Making Sense: Neurocritical Care 2011
• Therapeutic Hypothermia Post-Cardiac Arrest: A Review of the Physiology, Evidence and a Practical Approach to implementation*
• Non-Invasive Ventilation from Intensive Care to Home: Evidence, Guidelines, and Best Practices*
• Will This Study Help My Patients? Critically Appraising Studies in Critical Care & Pulmonary Medicine*

*Postgraduate course
+Workshop