In her book, The Autumn Ghost: How the Battle Against a Polio Epidemic Revolutionized Modern Medical Care, Hannah Wunsch, MD, MSc, traced the origins of mechanical ventilation and the ICU back to a polio epidemic in 1952. Dr. Wunsch will recount this gripping story of historic innovation in medicine during Monday’s Keynote Series session.

The Monday, May 20, session of the Nursing Year in Review will explore the ongoing challenges and opportunities for implementation science — promoting the uptake of best practices based on knowledge gained from clinical and translational research — in critical care, pulmonary, and sleep medicine.

The first session of the Adult Critical Care Clinical Core Curriculum begins on Tuesday, May 21, emphasizing cardiac considerations in critical care. Tuesday’s presentations will discuss managing unstable arrhythmias in the ICU, pulmonary embolisms, right ventricular failure, and the use of vasopressors for hemodynamic support.

The final session of the Adult Sleep Clinical Core Curriculum will cover several recent innovations in sleep medicine on Monday, May 20. Session presentations will explore cognitive behavioral therapy for insomnia, new developments in pediatric sleep testing, and strategic interventions to improve patients’ sleep in care facility settings.

The Pediatric Clinical Core Curriculum kicked off with its first (of three) session on Sunday, May 19, and continues on Monday, May 20. This year’s curricular theme is assessing the pulmonologist’s role in the pediatric ICU.

Moisés Selman, MD, an investigator whose work redefined idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis as an epithelial-driven fibrosis and has contributed to the pioneering research identifying the transcriptional signatures that distinguish some of the fibrosing lung diseases, will deliver this year’s J. Burns Amberson Lecture, “The Importance of Asking the Right Questions to Decipher Unknown Disease Mechanisms” on…