IPOKRaTES seminar: Respiratory care of the newborn infant - from the delivery room to childhood

Topics will include:

1. Care of the very tiny baby at delivery
2. The use of nitric oxide
3. Ventilatory strategies including High frequency oscillatory ventilation, jet ventilation and respiratory support of the infant with severe BPD
4. Important supportive therapies including surfactant, nitric oxide, caffeine and nutritional management

Faculty

• Steve Abman
  Children's Hospital Colorado, Aurora CO, USA
• Martin Keszler
  Brown University, Women and Infants Hospital, Providence RI, USA
• Haresh Kirpalani
  University of Pennsylvania, USA, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
• Juin Yee Kong
  KK Women's & Children's Hospital and Duke NUS, Singapore
• Fumihiko Namba
  Saitama Medical University, Saitama, Japan
• Josef Neu
  University of Florida, College of Medicine, Gainesville FL, USA
• Ju-Lee Oei
  University of New South Wales, Randwick NSW, Australia
• Barbara Schmidt
  University of Pennsylvania, USA, McMaster University, Ontario, Canada
• Huayan Zhang
  Guangzhou Women and Children's Hospital, China / Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, USA