Plenary session: Acute care
- Step up and step down
- How to monitor & predictors of failure
- Long-term stay in pediatric intensive care unit
- Bronchopulmonary dysplasia: making a decision between noninvasive ventilation and tracheostomy
Plenary session: Neuromuscular disorders
- How to ventilate them
- How new therapies have changed management
- How to prevent thoracic deformities
- How to cope with daily life
Plenary session: Sleep
- Sleep in neurodisabilities
- Chronic congenital hypoventilation syndrome: how to treat these patients
- Obstructive sleep apnea in neuromuscular disorders
- Central apnea: how to treat it
Plenary session: Invasive ventilation
- Technical aspects in tracheostomy
- Indications for invasive home mechanical ventilation
- Pediatric tracheostomy management of secretions, swallowing, speaking
Joint Session
- Transition from pediatrics to adult care
Workshops
- Instrumental airway clearance techniques: electrical impedance tomography with MIE; PEP mask; other techniques; instrumental airway clearance techniques in cerebral palsy
- Home monitoring: built-in software, telemedicine, PtcCO2
- Palliative / chronic care