Acute Non-Invasive Ventilation & Home Mechanical Ventilation

Delegates will acquire a comprehensive knowledge of the delivery of NIV in the UK, both in the acute and community setting. Practical aspects such as indications, treatment approaches, monitoring, troubleshooting, optimising patient comfort and tolerability, ethical aspects, organisational and performance review will also be included.

The course will appeal to a wide audience: doctors in training, consultants with a responsibility for NIV provision and nursing/therapy staff involved in acute or chronic NIV provision.

Course speakers are all experts in the field and are involved in the delivery of this specialist care.

The course will be delivered entirely online to support as wide an attendance as possible and will be interactive and informal. Some background knowledge will be required but this could be achieved with some pre-course reading for those with limited experience.

In addition, we will be providing a hands-on, face-to-face programme to support both sessions of the online course. This will take place in Manchester the day before the Summer Meeting in July. All of these sessions have been designed to support and build on one another in a complementary fashion, with the practical session aiming to consolidate the learning during the online event. For further information, see Acute Non-Invasive Ventilation & Home Mechanical Ventilation 2026 (Practical Course) page.