Programme Overview
Pre-conference 'Advanced Ventilatory Workshop - 3 June 2010
08.00 Registration
08.20 Welcome, overview and introduction to the day - Professor Sunil Sinha
08.30 Developments in neonatal resuscitation - Professor Peter Davis
09.15 Principles of mechanical ventilation - Professor Vinod Bhutani
10.00 Neonatal graphic monitoring - Professor Steven Donn
10.45 Mid morning coffee
11.15 Strategies to optimise conventional ventilation - Professor Sunil Sinha
12.00 Understanding recruitment and open lung concept - Professor Peter Rimensberger
12.45 Lunch
13.45 Inhaled nitric oxide therapy - Professor David Field
14.30 Demonstration of equipments and techniques
Echocardiography - Dr Jonathan Wyllie
Non-invasive respiratory support - Professor Haresh Kirpalani & Professor Peter Davis
High frequency oscillatory ventilation - Professor Steven Donn & Professor Peter Rimensberger
Conventional ventilation - Professor Sunil Sinha & Dr Samir Gupta
16.00 Afternoon tea
16.30 Plenary session - Professor Vinod Bhutani & Professor Steven Donn
17.30 Close
Annual International Neonatal Conference - 4 (Day 1)
08.00 Registration
08.25 Welcome and announcements - Professor Sunil Sinha
08.30 Session 1 - Respiratory support in newborns: review of evidence and practice - Professor Peter Rimensberger
09.00 Volutrauma and neonatal lung injury: is small always beautiful? - Professor Anne Greenough
09.30 Non invasive ventilation: evidence of benefit? - Professor Haresh Kirpalani
10.00 Discussion
10.30 Mid morning coffee
11.00 Session 2 - Newer concepts in neonatal haemodynamics: assessment and management of low systemic blood flow - Professor Nick Evans
11.30 Should we perform routine echocardiogragrams in VLBW infants to detect an asymptomatic PDA? - Professor Barbara Schmidt
12.00 Patent ductus arteriosus: diagnosis, impact and treatment - Professor Nick Evans
12.30 Discussion
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Session 3 - Neonatal encephalopathy and brain cooling: where are we now? - Professor Malcolm Levene
14.30 Neonatal hypoglycaemia: controversies, clinical and legal implications - Dr Jane Hawdon
15.00 Global burden of kernicterus - Professor Vinod Bhutani
15.30 Discussion
16.00 Afternoon tea
16.30 Session 4 - Keynote session - Outcomes for infants born at the limits of viability: surprising results and their ethical implications - Professor William Meadow
17.15 Close
Annual International Neonatal Conference - 5 June 2010 (Day 2)
08.30 Session 5 - Drug therapies in prevention of BPD: examining the evidence - Professor Barbara Schmidt
09.00 Improving the rates of successful extubation in preterms - Professor Peter Davis
09.30 Closed loop control of oxygen delivery: can we finally get it right? - Professor Steven Donn
10.00 Discussion
10.30 Mid morning coffee
11.00 Session 6 - Blood transfusion practice for preterms: evidence from clinical trials - Professor Haresh Kirpalani
11.30 Evidence from randomised controlled trials: do the answers match expectations? - Professor Peter Davis
12.00 Prognostication of outcomes for extremely low birth weight infants: what don't we know and when don't we know it? - Professor William Meadow
12.30 Discussion
13.00 Lunch
14.00 Session 7 - Controversies, conundrums and pearls of wisdom - panelists: Professor William Meadow, Professor David Field, Professor Barbara Schmidt & Professor Peter Davis
16.00 Closing remarks
