Description
Introduction
This is a 2-day face-to-face ventilation course centred on the care of children and adolescents. The course also has a self-paced online component (ESPNIC online ventilation course). It is tailored for health professionals (doctors, nurses and allied health professionals) working on paediatric critical care and high dependency units.
The educational material for the course is based on the Handbook of Paediatric and Neonatal Mechanical Ventilation (Alberto Medina Villanueva, ESPNIC), the ESPNIC online mechanical ventilation course, Paediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference (PALICC) and Recommendations for mechanical ventilation of critically ill children from the Paediatric Mechanical Ventilation Consensus Conference (PEMVECC).
Course objectives
- To review the basic respiratory physiology
- To understand the principles of mechanical ventilation
- To become familiar with conventional modes of ventilation
- To improve understanding and interpretation of ventilator waveforms
- To troubleshoot patient-ventilator issues including asynchrony
- To understand the advantages and limitations of mechanical ventilation
- To get familiar with transport ventilation
- To review the basic principles of non-invasive mechanical ventilation
Location
Møller Institute – Conference Centre
Churchill College
Storey’s Way
Cambridge
CB3 0DE
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Cost
This will include the ESPNIC accredited e-book, access to the e-learning platform (with more than 40 hours of learning and valued 180€) and ESPNIC accreditation.
- Nurses and other AHP £400
- Consultants £500
- Doctor in training £450
Prices, If you have completed the ESPNIC e-module.
- Nurses and other AHP with ESPNIC e-module completed £320
- Consultants with ESPNIC e-module completed £420
- Doctor in training with ESPNIC e-module completed £370
Information for delegates
- e.pub will be sent within 7 days.
- The e-learning platform will open in September.
Faculty
ESPNIC Mechanical Ventilation Instructors. Respiratory Failure Section:
- Dr Alberto Medina Villanueva (Spain)
- Vicent Modesto (Spain)
- Yolanda López (Spain)
- Manuel Nieto (Spain)
- Cristina Camilo (Portugal)
Course director:
Alberto Medina Villanueva. PICU Consultant. ESPNIC Chief for Professional Development
Course organisers:
- Bryce Lothian. PICU and PaNDR Consultant. Cambridge University Hospital
- Juan R. V. Ortiz. PICU and PaNDR Consultant. Cambridge University Hospital
- Nathalie Sutton. PaNDR Senior Sister
- Phil Castle. ODP. Paediatric Resuscitation Lead
Biographies
ESPNIC is a non-profit organisation dedicated to the care of the critically ill children and new-borns. Our society is comprised of Nurses, Doctors and Allied Healthcare Professionals who are committed to share knowledge and improve the quality of paediatric and neonatal intensive care at the European and international level. We are dedicated to raise awareness amongst professionals in the field, European and International organisations, through a wide range of activities including annual congresses, training programmes, teaching courses, and network opportunities with the leading experts in the fields of PICU & NICU.
