Description
Course introduction
A two-day course with a daily a lecture-based module of 5 hours each day where basic concepts of bronchoscopy, normal airway anatomy and most important critical care airway pathologies will be addressed, along with practical modules where participants will be able to practice with a flexible bronchoscope and perform diagnostic and therapeutic interventions as well as difficult airway management through specific bronchoscopy mannequins and simulator.
Flexible Bronchoscopy e-Learning package (normally £450) is included within the fees for this course. After booking your place, you will receive instructions by email on how to enrol.
What you will learn
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Basic principles in Flexible Bronchoscopy in paediatric critical care patients.
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Indications for FB in PICU.
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Understanding of the principles to undertake FB.
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Hands-on technical skills for FB.
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Practice in different models and simulated scenarios.
Course sessions
- Technical overview of flexible scopes
- Indications/contraindications and safety
- Anaesthesia and organizational aspects of flexible
- bronchoscopy in ICU
- Normal anatomy
- Upper airway abnormalities
- Lower airway abnormalities
- Tracheobronchomalacia
- Bronchoalveolar lavage, brush and
- Biopsies
- Fibrotic intubation and difficult airway
Practical sessions
- How to access upper airway and pass vocal cords.
- Nostril, LMA access and Navigation of Flexible Bronchoscopy across
- tracheobronchial tree
- Diagnostic use of Flexible Bronchoscopy
- Foreign body diagnosis and extraction
- Fibrotic intubation in setting of Difficult airway
- Bronchoscopy in neonates
- How to treat lung collapse and re inflate lungs
- Bronchoscopy in severe Asthma
- Bronchoscopy in haemoptysis
- Vascular compressions
- Bronchoscopy in ECMO
- Foreign Bodies
- Advances in interventional bronchoscopy
- Multidisciplinary teams and learning path
Location
Møller Institute – Conference Centre
Churchill College
Storey’s Way
Cambridge
CB3 0DE
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Cost
Course fee £600 (includes e-learning package)
Course Director
- Antonio Perez-Iranzo. PICU consultant, Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Birmingham
Course Organisers
- Dr Juan R. V. Ortiz. Paediatric Intensivist
Faculty
- Antonio Perez-Iranzo, PICU consultant, Birmingham Children’s Hospital. Birmingham
- Andrew Durward, Consultant in Paediatric Critical Care. Sidra Hospital. Doha
- Amy Chan-Dominy, Consultant Paediatric & Adult ICM. Royal Brompton Hospital
- Andrew Nyman, PICU consultant, Evelina Children’s Hospital. London
- Rebecca Peto, Respiratory ANP, Royal Brompton Hospital
- Cecilia Knobs, Airway Fellow in Paediatric Intensive Care, Evelina Children’s Hospital
- Bryce Lothian, PICU and Respiratory Consultant, Fakeh Hospital, Dubai
- Dr Juan R. V. Ortiz, CICU and PICU consultant, Newcastle University Hospitals
- Dirk Schramm, Paediatric Anaesthesia and Respiratory consultant
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