Description
Two-day Course (16 hours)
Date
21 and 22 November 2024
Day one
08.30 – 16.30
Day two
08.30 – 16.30
Location
Mindray Office
Hyde Building
Clarendon Road 38
Watford
England
WD17 1JW
5 min walk from Watford junction station.
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Cost
- Clinical Fellows and Doctors in training: £300
- Nurses and other AHPs: £200
Introduction
Fundamentals in Mechanical ventilation is an interactive and practical course that will provide delegates with the basic skills to help look after ventilated patients in PICU.
This course consists of a mix of interactive sessions and hands-on practice on the ventilator. It is aimed at doctors and nurses willing to start acquiring the expertise required to look after patients on the ventilator. From the patient with no respiratory diagnosis to the main causes of respiratory failure.
At the end of this course, delegates will be able to understand the modes of invasive mechanical ventilation commonly used in PICU and will have covered simple physiology behind this mode of life support in different clinical scenarios.
They will be able to understand how the ventilator works in an evidence-based and physiology-guided learning process.
This course is recommended prior to attending the more advanced ESPNIC Mechanical Ventilation Course. With both courses, delegates will have the required skills to guide the ventilatory strategies of the more complex patients.
Delegates
All doctors and nurses with some exposure to the critical care patient. This course is focused on the paediatric and neonatal population but most of the skills covered can be applied to adult population, as the age of the PICU patient can reach the adulthood.
Group distribution
There will be 8 to 10 delegates per room and one or two members of faculty (accredited instructor + instructor in practice).
Request for endorsement has been submitted to the European Society for Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive care (ESPNIC).
Course objectives
- Understanding basic physiology applied to mechanical ventilation.
- Familiarization with most common modes and their basic taxonomy.
- Programming the most widely-used conventional modes.
- Monitoring patient on the ventilator.
- Understanding basic physiology of paediatric acute and chronic obstructive respiratory failure.
- Programming and troubleshooting the ventilator in the most common obstructive diagnosis in paediatric practice (asthma, bronchiolitis, bronchopulmonary dysplasia).
- Overview of oxygenation physiology applied to the Paediatric Acute Respiratory Syndrome.
- Basic programming and ventilation assessment for a patient with pARDS.
Course Content
1. Physiology:
a. Static and Dynamic properties of the respiratory system.
b. Compliance and resistance.
c. The time-constant.
d. High vs low pressure generators.
2. Taxonomy:
a. Why is it important?
b. Basic taxonomy.
3. Conventional modes:
a. Volume control vs pressure control ventilation.
b. Continuos mandatory ventilation.
c. Intermitent mandatory ventilation.
d. Specific modes: SIMV and all IMV, PRVC.
4. Ventilation monitorization.
5. Obstructive pattern:
a. Physiology of lower airway obstruction.
6. Restrictive pattern
7. Interactive cases
Course Programme
Day 1
|
Session |
Room |
| 8.30 – 9.00 |
Registration.
Welcome to course. |
Reception desk |
| 9.00 – 10.30 |
Conventional modes |
Breakout spaces |
| 10.30 – 11.00 |
Coffee break |
Common coffee areas |
| 11.00 – 12.30 |
Basic respiratory physiology |
Main room |
| 12.30 – 13.30 |
Lunch |
Kitchen / Dining |
| 13.30 – 15.00 |
Ventilation monitoring |
Breakout spaces |
| 15.00 – 15.15 |
Coffee break |
Common coffee areas |
| 15.15 – 16.30 |
Obstructive pattern (I) |
Breakout spaces |
| 16.30 |
Close of Day 1 |
Main room |
Day 2
|
Session |
Room |
| 8.30 – 9.30 |
Day 1 recap and questions |
Break out spaces |
| 9.30 – 10.30 |
Obstructive pattern (II) |
Main room |
| 10.30 – 11.00 |
Coffee break |
Common coffee areas |
| 11.00 – 12.30 |
Oxygenation |
Breakout spaces |
| 12.30 – 13.30 |
Lunch |
Kitchen / Dining |
| 13.30 – 15.00 |
Restrictive pattern |
Breakout spaces |
| 15.00 – 16.30 |
Interactive cases.
Q&A |
Breakout spaces |
| 16.30 |
Close of the course |
Main room |
Faculty
Names listed below appear in photo from left to right.
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Dr Yolanda Lopez, PICU Consultant, Cruces University Hospital, Bilbao, Spain.
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Dr Paula Avram, PCCU Consultant, Sheffield Children’s Hospital.
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Dr Pompa Kukreja, PICU Consultant at Leicester Royal Infirmary.
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Dr Yaya Egberongbe, PCCU Consultant, Sheffield Children’s Hospital.
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Dr Angela Aranburo, PICU Consultant, Guys and St Thomas Hospital, London, UK.
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Dr Matt Christopherson, PICU Consultant, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children
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Dr Reinout J Mildner, PICU Consultant, Birmingham Children’s Hospital
- Dr Cristina Camilo, PICU Consultant, Hospital de Santa Maria, Lisboa, Portugal.
- Dr Sofia Cuevas-Asturias, Research Fellow, Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust & Bank PICU Consultant, Bristol Royal Hospital for Children.
- Dr Andrew Hughes, Paediatric Anaesthetist, The Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Sydney, Australia.
- Dr Alberto Medina Villanueva, PICU Consultant, Asturias Central University Hospital, Spain.
- Dr Juan Ramon Valle Ortiz, PICU and PaNDR Consultant, Cambridge University Hospital, UK.
- Dr Vicent Modesto, PICU Consultant and Lead for PICU, Hospital La Fé, Valencia, Spain.
- Dr Manuel Nieto, PICU Consultant, Cruces University Hospital, Bilbao, Spain.
- Dr Bryce Lothian, PICU & PaNDR Consultant, Cambridge University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust. (Not in photograph).
