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Pleural Pressure Working Group
PROMOTING MONITORING IN RESPIRATORY FAILURE
SAVE THE DATE
26 - 28 sept 2024
Boston (MA) - USA
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Please contact Lucia Solazzo (lucia.solazzo@startpromotion.it) from Start for any question concerning registration.
Dear colleagues and members,
It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our dear friend and colleague
Jordi Mancebo. He passed away on the night of August 6th.
Jordi was a co-founder of the PLUG and this group was very dear to his heart especially regarding the transmission to the next generation.
We'll miss him enormously.
Laurent Brochard,
Tommaso Mauri
WHO
WE ARE
The Pleural Pressure Working Group (PLUG) is an international network of physicians and investigators working on advanced monitoring of mechanical ventilation and respiratory failure. Our goal is to promote research and use of advanced monitoring, discuss study results, and provide educational tools. PLUG working group is open to anybody interested in this topic and is independent from any manufacturer or private company.
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PLUG has been created as a working group of the European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM) by Dr. Laurent Brochard in 2012 and became an independent group in 2021. The first focus was to promote research and use of esophageal pressure in mechanically ventilated patients. The focus was later extended to advance monitoring including electrical impedance tomography, lung ultrasound, electromyography, etc.
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The group gathers more than 600 members from all over the world. The organization is structured in an executive committee, a scientific committee and an educational committee.
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The main activities of the PLUG working group are:
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Publication of review articles about esophageal pressure monitoring and other advanced monitoring techniques in respiratory failure. The PLUG members published numerous research articles
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Organization of multicenter trials
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Organization of scientific meetings throughout the year in Europe and North America
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Creation of educational tools
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Executive committee:
Chair: Laurent Brochard, Toronto, Canada
Tommaso Mauri, Milano, Italy
Leo Heunks, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Scientific committee:
Chair: Daniel Talmor, Boston, US
Ewan Goligher, Toronto, Canada
Claude Guerin, Lyon, France
Stefano Nava, Bologna, Italy
Educational committee:
Chair: Jean-Michel Arnal, Toulon, France
Davide Chiumello, Milano, Italy
Alberto Goffi, Toronto, Canada
Francesco Mojoli, Pavia, Italy
Oriol Roca, Barcelona, Spain
Lisanne Roesthuis, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Carlo Alberto Volta, Ferrara, Italy
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Website/newsletters:
Annemijn Jonkman, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Bertrand Pavlovsky, Angers, France
VIDEOS
01. How to measure driving and transpulmonary driving pressure
03. How to inflate the esophageal balloon
05. How to insert the esophageal balloon
07. How to measure
PEEPi
09. How to measure
transpulmonary pressure
in a passive patient
02. How to recruit the lung with transpulmonary pressure
04. The different pressure in the thorax
06. How to calculate
WOB & PTP
08. How to set PEEP
using transpulmonary pressure
10. Why measuring esophageal pressure in a spontaneously breathing patient?
11. How to perform esophageal manometry in children
RESOURCES
& PUBLICATIONS
Interested in publications or websites that may assist in the management and monitoring of patients with respiratory failure? Click on the icons below!
Do you have any recommendation for a publication or a website you think we should add to the list? Email us at: plug.workinggroup@gmail.com
IN MEMORIAM
Brian Kavanagh, 1962 to 2019
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Robert Kacmarek, 1949 to 2021
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Göran Hedenstierna, 1941 to 2021
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Joseph Milic-Emili, 1931 t0 2022
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