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Paediatric Chronic Ventilation Course 2019
March 7, 2019 - March 8, 2019
A comprehensive 2-day course focusing on the care of children requiring long term invasive or non-invasive ventilation
Target audience:
- General paediatricians and trainee
- Nurses (working in hospital/community settings)
- Allied Health Professionals
- Carers
Lectures and workshops 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
- 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
- Long term ventilation and ethical issues