ERS International Congress 2023: highlights from the Respiratory Intensive Care Assembly.

Early career members of Assembly 2 (Respiratory Intensive Care) attended the 2023 European Respiratory Society International Congress in Milan, Italy. The conference covered acute and chronic respiratory failure. Sessions of interest to our assembly members and to those interested in respiratory critical care are summarised in this article and include the latest updates in respiratory intensive care, in particular acute respiratory distress syndrome and mechanical ventilation.

ERS International Congress 2023: highlights from the Thoracic Oncology Assembly.

Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer mortality in the world. It greatly affects the patients' quality of life, and is thus a challenge for the daily practice in respiratory medicine. Advances in the genetic knowledge of thoracic tumours' mutational landscape, and the development of targeted therapies and immune checkpoint inhibitors, have led to a paradigm shift in the treatment of lung cancer and pleural mesothelioma.

A single-centre prospective cohort study: prone positioning in awake, non-intubated patients with covid-19 hypoxemic failure.

Introduction: A surge in critically ill patients with respiratory failure due to Covid-19 has overwhelmed ICU capacity in many healthcare systems across the world. Given a guarded prognosis and significant resource limitations, less invasive, inventive approaches such as prone positioning (PP) of non-intubated patients with hypoxemic respiratory failure were considered.

Aims And Objectives: This is a prospective observational study and the aim is to evaluate the impact of awake PP at the ward level on the oxygenation levels of patients with COVID-19.