Pneumologische Intensivmedizin

摘要

During the last decade described in the present article, pneumologists have significantly contributed to the advances in intensive care medicine, especially in the field of mechanical ventilation. The use of non-invasive ventilation, the organization of prolonged weaning from long-term invasive ventilation and the growing necessity for palliative respiratory care have all emerged as focal points of respiratory medicine within the past 10 years. With the increasing understanding of lung-protective ventilation, together with extracorporeal life support devices in a manageable size and readily available, today’s pneumologists envisage challenging tasks in future intensive care medicine.