Christoph FisserGiulia SpoletiniAung Kyaw SoeAlana LiveseyAnnia SchreiberEma SwingwoodLieuwe D. BosMichael DreherMarcus J. SchultzLeo HeunksRaffaele ScalaPirogov Russian National Research Medical University (RNRMU)IRCCS Policlinico San DonatoNHS Foundation TrustHeartlands HospitalKlinikum der Universität Regensburg und Medizinische FakultätUniversity Health Network University of TorontoMahidol UniversityUniversity of LeedsAmsterdam UMC - Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamAmsterdam UMC - University of AmsterdamUniklinik RWTH AachenHospital DonaustaufSt James’s University Hospital2020-01-272020-01-272019-02-01ERS Monograph. Vol.5, No.1 (2019)231250982312508X2-s2.0-85067918501https://repository.li.mahidol.ac.th/handle/20.500.14594/51935© ERS 2019. The respiratory intensive care Assembly of the European Respiratory Society is proud to present a summary of several important sessions held at the International Congress in Paris in 2018. For the highly esteemed reader who may have missed the Congress, a concise review was written on three topics: the state-of-the-art session on respiratory critical care, hot topics in weaning and the best abstracts in noninvasive ventilation.Mahidol UniversityMedicineArticleSCOPUS10.1183/23120541.00198-2018