Dear Colleagues,

I am pleased to invite all of you to this 1st International Pediatric Home mechanical ventilation Conference, in Barcelona, Spain next September 27-28th.

This Conference, focused on Home mechanical ventilation in children, will be offering practical advances to pediatric pulmonologists, pediatric intensivists, young pediatricians, neonatologists, and pediatric and neonatal intensive care nurses/respiratory therapists.

It is a multidisciplinary forum where everyone will learn from the lectures of well-known experts in this field. The Conference will overlap one day with our 6th International Conference on Pediatric and Neonatal Non-invasive Ventilation will be held September 26-27th 2024 covering issues that matters Pediatric Intensivists, and allied-healthcare professionals. Those interested in this one-day preliminary activity (26th) can join us with a reduced fee for the extra-day.

In addition, true to our commitment to education, we will also offer a series of workshops that will focus on efficient bedside issues.

We invite you to participate and make this 1st Pediatric Home mechanical ventilation Conference a high standard event and a great success. We are looking forward to seeing you in Barcelona in September 2024.

Those interested to present oral communications, September 28th, please contact with the Director: marti.pons@sjd.es

Dr. Martí Pons-Òdena

Home mechanical ventilation programme at SJD Barcelona Children's Hospital

CONFERENCES

September, 27th | 08:30 - 16:30 h
(overlaps with 6th International Conference on Pediatric and Neonatal Non-invasive Ventilation)

1. Prolonged ventilation
• What do we know about prolonged ventilation in the PICU?
2. Make a decision with the mask. From the PICU to Home
• Use of Total face mask.
• Use of alternative interfaces (Helmet, hybrid).
• Role of the interface’s rotation to prevent the pressure sores.
3. Wearing of ventilation
• Transferring from PICU ventilator to Home ventilator: Tricks of the trade.
• Weaning from the Home ventilator: Strategies. 
• Differences between diseases?
4. Ventilatory support in the PICU for neuromuscular patients
• Extubation/Decanulation Protocols in difficult to wean patients.
• Non-invasive management: Our experience in adult.
5.  Managing chronic complex patients
• Ventilator’s software: is this helpful? Adult experience.
• Diaphragm evaluation:
• Ultrasounds
• Alternative monitoring / EIT

September, 28th | 09:00 - 18:00 h

1. Oral communications
2. Modes: routine versus fashion in home ventilation
• In love with Volume guarantee.
• My experience with intelligent modes.
• Pressure modes for ever.
3. Talking about tracheostomy
• How I select the right cannula?
• Tubing: double, single or leak circuit?
• When and how I introduce the phonatory valve?
4. Home ventilation
• Monitoring cough-assist's learning curve with Electric Impedance Tomography.
• Elective initiation of NIV at Home: A pilot experience.
• Built-in software: Learning through clinical scenarios.
5. Living with a tracheostomy: parent's point of view
6. Interactive session with the expert / parents in the terrace

PARALLEL ACTIVITIES

WORKSHOP

September, 27th

• Option A) Home ventilation face-to-face workshop
• Option B) Lung ultrasounds workshop

Fee:

• Only Conferences HOME VENTILATION:
• €280 in face-to-face.
• €100 in streaming.
• €150 (pack of 10 registrations) Streaming for LMIC (*)
• Conference HOME VENTILATION + Workshop A or B (September, 27th): €350 (€300 Special fee for SECIP members, residents, and nurses) (**)
• Industry workshop: Free** (**sponsored by Löwenstein).

(*) In order to get a special discount for groups of 10 attendees living in LMIC. Request a discount code from gisela.dalmases@sjd.es, providing proof of residency in any of the listed country. Also for the registration to Industry workshop. Registration required.

(**) Request a discount code from gisela.dalmases@sjd.es, proving that you belong to this group.