Paediatric Critical Care Flexible Bronchoscopy 21st and 22nd April 2026

£700.00

Available

Join us for an intensive two-day, hands-on bronchoscopy course designed to build both foundational knowledge and practical skills.

Each day features a 5-hour lecture-based module covering:

  • Fundamental concepts of bronchoscopy

  • Normal airway anatomy

  • Key critical care airway pathologies

These sessions are complemented by interactive practical modules, where participants will:

  • Practice using flexible bronchoscopes

  • Perform diagnostic and therapeutic interventions

  • Refine difficult airway management techniques using high-fidelity bronchoscopy mannequins and simulators

The course also includes simulation and case-based discussions of real-world, challenging cases — allowing delegates to apply techniques learned in lectures within a realistic, supportive training environment.

Whether you’re new to bronchoscopy or looking to advance your clinical skills, this course offers a balanced blend of theory, practice, and expert-led discussion to enhance your confidence and competence in airway management.

Available

Description

Course introduction

Join us for an intensive two-day, hands-on bronchoscopy course designed to build both foundational knowledge and practical skills.

Each day features a 5-hour lecture-based module covering:

  • Fundamental concepts of bronchoscopy

  • Normal airway anatomy

  • Key critical care airway pathologies

These sessions are complemented by interactive practical modules, where participants will:

  • Practice using flexible bronchoscopes

  • Perform diagnostic and therapeutic interventions

  • Refine difficult airway management techniques using high-fidelity bronchoscopy mannequins and simulators

The course also includes simulation and case-based discussions of real-world, challenging cases — allowing delegates to apply techniques learned in lectures within a realistic, supportive training environment.

Whether you’re new to bronchoscopy or looking to advance your clinical skills, this course offers a balanced blend of theory, practice, and expert-led discussion to enhance your confidence and competence in airway management.

What you will learn

  • Basic principles in Flexible Bronchoscopy in paediatric critical care patients.
  • Indications for FB in PICU.
  • Understanding of the principles to undertake FB.
  • Hands-on technical skills for FB.
  • 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
  • Treatment of Atelectasias and reinflation
  • Bronchial isolation techniques
  • MEGACODE I vs stents/EB valves
  • MEGACODE II

Location

King’s Academy
1-5 Hinton Road,
London, UK
SE24 0HJ

Map and directions

Cost

Course fee £700 (£600 early bird offer until January 31st 2026)

Course Director

  • Antonio Perez-Iranzo, NICU Consultant, Hospital La Fe, Valencia

Course Organiser

  • Dr Juan R. V. Ortiz, CICU and PICU consultant, Newcastle University Hospitals

Faculty

  • Antonio Perez-Iranzo, NICU Consultant, Hospital La Fe, Valencia
  • 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 Korb, PICU consultant, Airway Fellow in Paediatric Intensive Care, Evelina Children’s Hospital
  • Bryce Lothian, PICU and Respiratory Consultant, Fakeh Hospital, Dubai
  • Dr Anna Barrow, Consultant in Paediatric Anaesthesia, University Hospital of Wales, Cardiff
  • Dr Juan R. V. Ortiz, CICU and PICU consultant, Newcastle University Hospitals
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