Why does airway pressure rise sometimes near the end of inflation during pressure support?

Abstracts 21st ESICM Annual Congress Lisbon, Portugal 21–24 September 2008

This supplement issue of the official ESICM/ESPNIC journal Intensive Care Medicine contains abstracts of scientific papers presented at the 21st Annual Congress of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine.

The abstracts appear in order of presentation from Monday 22 September until Wednesday 24 September 2008.

The same abstract numbering is used in the Congress final programme.

Congress Committee

Chairman

Andy Rhodes, London, United Kingdom

Acute respiratory failure

Christian Putensen, Bonn, Germany

Cardiovascular dynamics

Jan Poelaert, Gent, Belgium

Ethics

Elie Azoulay, Paris, France

Health services research and outcomes

Philipp Metnitz, Vienna, Austria

Infection

Claude Martin, Marseille, France

Metabolism, Endocrinology, Nephrology, and Nutrition

Michael Joannidis, Innsbruck, Austria

Neuro-Intensive Care And Emergency Medicine

Peter Andrews, Edinburgh, United Kingdom

Peri-Operative Intensive Care

Michael Hiesmayr, Vienna, Austria

Systemic Inflammation And Sepsis

Konrad Reinhart, Jena, Germany

Technology Assessment And Health Informatics

Carl Waldmann, Reading, United Kingdom

Research Committee

Chairman

Daniel De Backer, Brussels, Belgium

Education And Training Committee

Chairman

Hans Flaatten, Bergen, Norway

Nurses And Allied Healthcare Professionals

Christina Jones, Prescot, United Kingdom

Congress Abstract book

Contents

Abstracts submitted and selected under the label ECCRN. To be displayed during the three-day congress at the Best Abstract & ECCRN corner (Pavilion 2-Exhibition Area, 1st Floor, next to the coffee area).

Abstracts pre-selected for the Poster Awards

* Author & presenter

Monday 22 September 2008
Oral Presentations
Sepsis: Basic studies	0001–0005
Pathophysiological approach of cardiovascular failure	0006–0010
Surviving the ICU: Clinician's perspectives	0011–0014
ICU management	0015–0018
New aspects of mechanical ventilation in acute lung injury	0019–0023
New dimensions in nursing	0024–0028
Poster Sessions
Various	0029–0042
Perioperative monitoring and outcome	0043–0053
Severity scoring	0054–0067
Technology assessment monitoring I	0068–0080
Pathophysiology of sepsis I	0081–0094
Antibiotics in the ICU	0095–0108
Sepsis: Predisposition and outcome	0109–0122
Ventilator-associated pneumonia	0123–0136
Advances in critical care I	0137–0150
Quality improvement	0151–0164
Circulatory issues and prognosis	0165–0177
Signaling pathways in acute lung injury	0178–0191
Sepsis: Cardiovascular therapies	0192–0205
Organ donation	0206–0215
Pathophysiology of sepsis II	0216–0229
Mechanical ventilation: Patient-ventilator interaction	0230–0243
Assessment of fluid resuscitation	0244–0253
Advances in neuro-critical care I	0254–0267
Resource management	0268–0281
Technology assessment monitoring II	0282–0294
Weaning from mechanical ventilation	0295–0308
Advances in neuro-critical care II	0309–0322
Perioperative cardiac problems	0323–0333
Non-invasive ventilation in the ICU	0334–0344
Oral Presentations
Sepsis: Clinical studies	0345–0350
Advances in neuro-critical care III	0351–0356
ICU admission	0357–0362
Molecular mechanisms of acute lung injury	0363–0368
Metabolism endocrinology	0369–0374
Septic shock	0375–0380
Cultural variations at the end-of-life	0381–0386
Tuesday 23 September 2008
Oral Presentations
Abstract awards winners — The best preselected abstracts submitted to the congress	0387–0390
Microcirculation in sepsis	0391–0395
Perioperative organ failure	0396–0400
Paediatric intensive care	0401–0405
Lung imaging and monitoring	0406–0410
Ventilator-associated pneumonia: Can we prevent?	0411–0414
Poster Sessions
Sedation, analgesia, pharmacology	0415–0428
Fungal infections/Device-related infections	0429–0442
Advances in neuro-critical care IV	0443–0456
Sepsis: Experimental	0457–0470
Perioperative infections	0471–0477
Tracheostomy in the ICU	0478–0488
Infection and sepsis	0489–0498
Creative nursing	0499–0511
Alternative strategies for oxygenation and CO2-removal	0512–0523
Prognosis and outcome	0524–0537
Technology assessment organ support I	0538–0551
Pediatric and neonatal care	0552–0563
Clinical outcome I	0564–0577
Microcirculation in the critically ill	0578–0591
Sepsis therapies	0592–0605
Physiotherapy and patient's outcome	0606–0614
Determination of cardiac function	0615–0627
Recruitment maneuvers in ALI and ARDS	0628–0641
Clinical outcome II	0642–0654
ALI in the ICU: Diagnosis, treatment, outcome	0655–0664
Advances in neuro-critical care V	0665–0678
Perioperative hormones and metabolic problems	0679–0690
Advances in critical care II	0691–0704
Multi-resistant infections	0705–0718
Oral Presentations
Sepsis: Experimental studies	0719–0724
Functional approach of cardiovascular failure	0725–0730
Advances in neuro-critical care VI	0731–0735
Perioperative monitoring	0736–0741
Long term outcome	0742–0747
Ventilator-associated pneumonia: Treatment	0748–0753
Technology assessment organ support II	0754–0759
Wednesday 24 September 2008
Oral Presentations
Acute kidney injury	0760–0764
Biomarkers in sepsis	0765–0769
Advances in neuro-critical care VII	0770–0772
Implementing quality indicators	0773–0777
Technology assessment monitoring III	0778–0782
Physiotherapy: Respiration and locomotion	0783–0786
Poster Sessions
SIRS, MODS and shock	0787–0800
Perioperative pain and abdominal problems	0801–0814
Sepsis and SIRS: Varias	0815–0823
Advances in critical care III	0824–0837
Improving ICU	0838–0842
Advances in neuro-critical care VIII	0843–0856
Glucose control	0857–0870
Microcirulation and coagulation	0871–0883
Nutrition	0884–0897
Severe infections I	0898–0911
Endocrinology — Nutrition	0912–0925
Surviving sepsis	0926–0939
Acid base — Renal replacement therapy	0940–0953
Respiratory failure: Therapeutic strategies and measures	0954–0966
Acute kidney injury	0967–0980
Management of cardiac failure	0981–0990
Severe infections II	0991–1001
Microcirculation and prognosis	1002–1015
Perioperative lung injury	1016–1029
Severe infections III	1030–1043
Practices at the end of life	1044–1052