The 2026 RFMV programme will be structured around two primary tracks, addressing separately acute and chronic respiratory failure settings.
Additionally, combined sessions will highlight multidisciplinary approaches for diagnosis and treatment of the disease.
Acute topics
- Weaning from invasive ventilation - a multidisciplinary perspective
- Latest updates on extracorporeal membrane oxygenation
- Patient ventilated asynchronies (using AI): impact in acute settings
- Future directions for acute respiratory distress syndrome management
- Respiratory intermediate care units: post-COVID navigating challenges, enhancing outcomes
- Electrical impedance tomography for lung ventilation and perfusion monitoring in adults and children
Chronic topics
- European collaboration in home mechanical ventilation: update on the "Clinical Research Collaboration (CRC) importance"
- From hospital to home care: the role of telemedicine and AI
- Monitoring of the upper airways during non-invasive ventilation (NIV) and airway clearance
- Diaphragm dysfunction: the role of NIV, pacing and surgery
- Obesity: from pathophysiology of breathing problems to home ventitlation strategies
- Living with a ventilator: from NIV to tracheostomy (including amyotrophic lateral sclerosis patient testimony)
- Respiratory support in chronic setting (workshop)
Combined topics
- Applied physiology in acute and chronic respiratory failure
- High-flow therapy in the chronic and acute settings
- Multi-disciplinary care in respiratory failure: role of new drugs or interventions
- Sleep in intensive care unit and in long-term NIV in adults and children
- Monitoring respiratory effort during NIV
- Ethical and palliative aspects of home mechanical ventilation
- Assessment of respiratory muscle function (workshop)
- The impact of patient-ventilator asynchronies (PVA) in acute and chronic settings (workshop)
Session formats
| Symposium | Three 30-minute or four 22-minute presentations, including a dedicated time to discussion and Q&A |
| Meet-the-experts | Two keynote talks of 20 minutes and 20-minute live discussion with the audience |
| Round-table discussions | Track-based 60-minute interactive excahnges in small research working groups |
| Year-in-preview | Wrap-up 90-minute session presenting innovations in research - what's coming next? |
| Skills workshops | Two-hour session based on practical training with medical equipment |
| Oral discussion sessions | Discussion of previously submitted abstracts in front of a full room audience |
| Poster sessions | Presentation of posters from previously submitted abstracts chaired by two experts |
| Clinical cases sessions | Discussion of previously submitted cases |
Live streaming and replays
Live streaming and session replays will be available to both onsite and online participants. Please note that replays of live streamed sessions will be available within two weeks after the event, in case you are unable to watch the sessions live. Replays will remain accessible until August 2026.
The following sessions will not be live streamed:
- Skills workshops
- Abstract-based (oral discussions, poster and clinical cases) sessions
Accreditation
An application will be submitted to the European Board for Accreditation in Pneumology (EBAP) for CME accreditation of this event.
The number of CME credits granted for onsite attendance will correspond to your daily in-person presence during the conference.
The abstract-based sessions and industry-sponsored sessions are excluded from the allocation of CME credits.
Participants registered for online attendance can also claim credits for the hours spent viewing the sessions live.
Participants will not accrue credits for watching session replays.
