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