Please note:
The agenda is not yet fixed and may be revised.

Day 1

📍 Morning (Auditorium – 450 people)

09 :30 – 10:00 | Participants Welcome ☕ Coffee

10 :00 – 10:15 | Conference Opening
🔹 Welcome address and program introduction

10:15 – 10:45 | The diaphragm in the ICU : an overview (M Dres, MD)

10:45 – 11:30 | Dyspnea in the ICU : why (and how) should we care ? (M Decavele MD)

11:30 – 12:15 | Caring for the families (Nancy Kentish Barnes, Sociologist)

12:15 – 13 :45 | 🍽 Lunch & Poster Session + Networking (1h30) : Vote for Your Favorite Poster
🔹 Poster presentation and moderation

📍 Afternoon (Thematic sessions and Workshop)

13:45 - 14:45

15:00 - 16:00

16:00 – 16:30 | ☕ Coffee Break & Networking 

16:30 – 17:15 |10 actions to care for ICU patients and the Planet (Reaggir group SRLF)

17:15 – 18:00 | Rehab trajectory : Traumatic Brain Injury (This is a new session format of session we’d like to introduce. In a given pathology, we will focus on the rehab trajectory during and after the ICU, and discuss the specific issues and challenges.

19:30 VIP diner

Day 2: Practices and Perspectives in Rehabilitation

📍 Morning (Auditorium – 450 people)

9:00 – 9:45 | Weaning and Rehab the French way : lessons learned in 10 years of « SRPR »

9:45 – 10:30 | Plexus Lesions After Prone Positioning: How to Manage and Prevent (Adeline Cambon, surgeon)

10:30 – 11:00 | ☕ Coffee Break & Networking (30 min)

11:00 – 11:45 | Working as a team : Dealing with Error (AS Debue, RN)

11 :45 -12 :15  W&R Research Speed Dating (pre-selected participants will come upfont and pitch in 3 minutes a research interest or project. Interested people can then reach out through QR code for potential collaboration)

12:15 – 13:30 | 🍽 Lunch & Poster Session + Networking  Vote for Your Favorite Poster
🔹 Poster presentation and moderation

📍 Afternoon (Workshops and Small Group Meetings)

13:30 - 14:30

14:45 – 15:30 | Rehab trajectory : Purpura Fulminans

15:30 – 16:00 | Best Abstracts , Conference Closing and Future Perspectives

The Congress Committee of 10th European conference on weaning and rehabilitation in critically ill patients, welcomes the submission of abstracts.  

The abstract submission system will close on 31st March 2026. 

All abstracts will be reviewed blindly by members of an abstract committee.  Author names, affiliations, and institutions will be removed during this process. Reviewers consider the abstract on the basis of the following items: 

• Relevance/importance of topic
• Methodological approach
• Data analysis and presentation
• Interpretation of the findings and impact for clinical practice
• Overall quality of presentation – style, legibility

The authors will be informed of acceptance or rejection of their abstract by e-mail. All accepted abstracts will be presented at the conference either in form or a poster or an oral presentation.  

Presenters of the best poster and the best oral presentation will receive an award. 

The maximum length of abstracts is 2500 characters.  

The abstract must include: 

• Project title
• Purpose of the project
• Clinical and/or scientific background for the project
• Methodological approach
• Results
• Short description of how the results will impact patients/clinicians/the health service, and why the results are important for clinical practice

Submit Abstract

Sorbonne, Paris