TY - JOUR T1 - Hot Topics in Noninvasive Ventilation: Report of a Working Group at the International Symposium on Sleep-Disordered Breathing in Leuven, Belgium JF - Respiratory Care SP - 1337 LP - 1362 DO - 10.4187/respcare.03796 VL - 60 IS - 9 AU - Bart Vrijsen AU - Michelle Chatwin AU - Oliver Contal AU - Eric Derom AU - Jean-Paul Janssens AU - Mike J Kampelmacher AU - Jean-Francois Muir AU - Susana Pinto AU - Claudio Rabec AU - Michelle Ramsay AU - Winfried J Randerath AU - Jan H Storre AU - Peter J Wijkstra AU - Wolfram Windisch AU - Dries Testelmans Y1 - 2015/09/01 UR - http://rc.rcjournal.com/content/60/9/1337.abstract N2 - During the last few decades, attention has increasingly focused on noninvasive ventilation (NIV) in the treatment of chronic respiratory failure. The University of Leuven and the University Hospitals Leuven therefore chose this topic for a 2-day working group session during their International Symposium on Sleep-Disordered Breathing. Numerous European experts took part in this session and discussed (1) NIV in amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (when to start NIV, NIV and sleep, secretion management, and what to do when NIV fails), (2) recent insights in NIV and COPD (high-intensity NIV, NIV in addition to exercise training, and NIV during exercise training), (3) monitoring of NIV (monitoring devices, built-in ventilator software, leaks, and asynchronies) and identifying events during NIV; and (4) recent and future developments in NIV (target-volume NIV, electromyography-triggered NIV, and autoregulating algorithms). ER -