TY - JOUR T1 - ERS noninvasive ventilation course: basic concepts JF - Breathe JO - Breathe SP - 81 LP - 83 DO - 10.1183/20734735.002217 VL - 13 IS - 2 AU - Bernd Schönhofer AU - Nicholas Hart AU - Raffaele Scala AU - Ries van den Biggelaar AU - Farah Idrees Y1 - 2017/06/01 UR - http://breathe.ersjournals.com/content/13/2/81.abstract N2 - In 2007, the European Respiratory Society (ERS) delivered the Noninvasive Ventilation (NIV) course in Hannover, Germany, for the first time. This teaching course was to become the birth of a successful tradition in the delivery of NIV education by ERS. In the following 10 years, the Hannover NIV course has been held on four occasions, in 2009, 2011, 2014 and, just recently in 2017. Each of these courses have been fully booked with around 80 delegates. Such was the popularity of the course and the rapidly expanding knowledge in this area of acute NIV and home mechanical ventilation (HMV) that, in 2014, the ERS agreed to deliver both a “basic concepts” and an “advanced concepts” course. The Hannover NIV course focused on the basic concepts, whereas the NIV course held for the first time in November 2015 in Milan, Italy, focused on advanced concepts.Faculty and delegates of the @ERStalk course on basic concepts in NIV describe their experiences http://ow.ly/zUPn30b7jLb ER -