High Flow Nasal Cannula

1 Conventional oxygen therapy: technical and physiologic issues.- 2  High-flow: technical aspect.- 3 Physiological effects of high flow.- 4 Clinical applications of high flow nasal cannula in hypoxemic acute respiratory failure.- 5 Clinical applications of high flow nasal cannula during intubation and weaning from mechanical ventilation.- 6 Clinical applications of high flow nasal cannula in the operating room.- 7 Clinical applications in the acute setting: obstructive lung diseases.- 8 Clinical applications in Pulmonary rehabilitation.- 9 Clinical applications in particular setting.- 10 Physiological Effects and clinical applications in children.- 11 Future perspectives.

Annalisa Carlucci has been an Associated Professor in Pulmonary Medicine -University of Insubria-Varese since 2019. Physician at the Pulmonary Rehabilitation Department of the Istituti Clinici Scientifici- IRCCS, Pavia, Italy since 2000. She completed her specialization in Pulmonary Disease at the Catholic University of Rome in 1997. Her main field of interest is non-invasive ventilation in an acute and chronic setting. Other research fields include weaning from mechanical ventilation, respiratory muscle (EMG, mechanics) and pulmonary rehabilitation. She is the author of more than 50 articles published in peer-reviewed journals and 7 books chapters. For the past several years she has been working with high-flow nasal cannula, above all in rehabilitation. She recently published a paper about the use of the HFNC for rehabilitation in COPD and is working on several protocols in this field.  She is also involved in didactic activities held at hospitals (e.g. Master of Physiotherapy and Pulmonary Rehabilitation at the University of Milan and a Master of Respiratory Intensive Care at University Alma Mater Studiorum in Bologna), as well as at national and international conferences.

Salvatore Maurizio Maggiore has been a Full Professor of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the "Gabriele d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy, and Chief of the general ICU at the SS. Annunziata Hospital of Chieti, Italy since 2018. He graduated  in Anaesthesiology and Intensive Care Medicine from the University of Bari, Italy in 1998, undertook a clinical and research fellowship in the medical ICU of the Henri Mondor hospital, Paris XII University, and worked as a senior physician and Assistant Professor at the A. Gemelli hospital, Catholic University of Rome, Italy, before being appointed as Associate Professor of Anaesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine at the "Gabriele d'Annunzio" University of Chieti-Pescara, Italy. He is