23 February 2023 - Online
24 February 2023 - Holiday Inn Bloomsbury (Face to face Workshops)
A comprehensive 2-day course focusing on the care of children requiring Long term invasive or non-invasive ventilation
Target Audience – General/Respiratory paediatric trainees, Paediatricians , Nurses, Allied Health Care professionals and carers.
Day 1 Virtual Lecture based teaching on:
- - Sleep disordered breathing in children
- - Indications and epidemiology of long term ventilation (invasive and non-invasive ventilation) in children
- - From pathophysiology to the practicalities e.g. investigations, Initiation, monitoring, escalating/weaning ventilation
- - Long term ventilation and ethical issue
Day 2 Face to face workshop based teaching on:
- - Choice of ventilator and interface, including hands on experience of equipment, mask fitting, circuits
- - Clinical scenarios, trouble shooting clinical or equipment problems
- - Tracheostomy care
- - Introduction to cough assist
