Scientific Information

Scientific Programme

Pre-Congress Hands-on Sessions
(in the local hospital)

10:00-12:00

SESSION I


5 participants in the PICU (De Marchi)

5 participants in the NICU (Mangiagalli) SOLD OUT

14:00-16:00

SESSION II


5 participants in the PICU (De Marchi)

5 participants in the NICU (Mangiagalli) SOLD OUT

“Meet the Expert”

Master Class on POCUS


(at the congress venue)

“Meet the Editor”

Master Class on Scientific Publishing with the Editor of the new ICM-PN journal


(at the congress venue)

08:25-08:30

Greetings and Introduction

08:30-08:50

Opening Lectures


What is important to monitor in neonatal critical care?

Can we use big data do understand and monitor a single patient In ICU?

I Session: There is no air here! Lung ultrasound and consolidations

08:50-09:10

Distinguishing consolidations from atelectasis

09:10-09:30

Size of consolidations in neonates: does it matter?

09:30-09:50

Can lung ultrasound distinguish different type of consolidations?

09:50-10:00

Q&A and Discussion

10:00-10:10

Coffee Break

II Session: “Lung” ultrasound does not monitor the lung only

10:10-10:30

Lung ultrasound and multiorgan failure for congestive overflow

10:30-10:50

Lung ultrasound for monitoring the hemodynamically significant PDA

10:50-11:10

CXR or ultrasound to estimate wedge pressure and define congestive lung edema?

11:10-11:20

Q&A and Discussion

11:20-11:30

Coffee Break

III Session: Monitoring brain and lung: it is all connected!

11:30-11:50

Monitoring cerebral activity while assisting ventilation in PICU and NICU

11:50-12:10

Looking into the lung with EIT: what can we and what cannot we get?

12:10-13:00

4 Abstract Presentations


(8 minutes each, 2 questions each)

13:00-14:00

Lunch Break

IV Session: How to study something that moves

14:00-14:20

Looking into the lung with EIT: what can we and what cannot we get?

14:20-14:40

Listening from the lung with FOT: what does it tell us?

14:40-15:00

Diaphragmatic electrical activity as a monitoring tool

15:00-15:10

Q&A and Discussion

15:10-15:20

Coffee Break

V Session: Monitoring heart and lung hand in hand!

15:20-15:40

Effect of mechanical ventilation on volume filling and cardiac function in critically ill neonates

15:40-16:10

Persistent pulmonary hypertension of the neonate: lung ultrasound can help cope with it?

16:10-17:00

5 Abstract Presentations


(8 minutes each, 2 questions each)

08:25-08:30

Greetings and Introduction

08:30-08:50

Opening Lecture


News in lung ultrasound in 2023: where are we?

VI Session: Teaching lung ultrasound

08:50-09:10

Implementing a POCUS program in a large referral NICU: how to do it?

09:10-09:30

Five secrets to teach lung ultrasound to resident and fellows

09:30-09:50

Inter-and intra-rater reliability of lung ultrasound: is it really operator-dependent?

09:50-10:00

Q&A and Discussion

10:00-10:10

Coffee Break

VII Session: Lung ultrasound and the Kidney

10:10-10:30

Lung ultrasound and the effect of diuretics in neonates

10:30-10:50

Lung ultrasound to monitor fluid status during pediatric extracorporeal renal replacement therapy?

10:50-11:10

Neonatal CVVH is now a reality as much as LUS

11:10-11:20

Q&A and Discussion

11:20-11:30

Coffee Break

VIII Session: Monitoring… the machine. What to check and how to do during ECMO

11:30-11:50

Lung ultrasound monitoring in pedriatic ECMO

11:50-12:10

Again another device? The essential for monitoring during ECMO

12:10-12:20

Q&A and Discussion

12:20-13:00

4 Abstract Presentations


(8 minutes each, 2 questions each)

13:00-14:00

Lunch Break

IX Session: The diaphragm: a forgotten friend

14:00-14:20

Diaphragm ultrasound monitoring in preterm neonates

14:20-14:40

Diaphragm ultrasound to predict surfactant need

14:40-15:00

Effect of invasive ventilation of the diaphragm

15:00-15:10

Q&A and Discussion

15:10-15:20

Coffee Break

X Session: Lung ultrasound in developing countries

15:20-15:40

Benefits and challenges of lung ultrasound in pediatric ED in low and middle- income countries

15:40-16:00

Benefits and challenges of lung ultrasound implementation in low and middle-income countries

16:00-17:00

5 Abstract Presentations


(8 minutes each, 2 questions each)

XI Session: Monitoring gut and lung

09:00-09:20

NIRS to measure gut oxygenation in critically ill neonates

09:20-09:40

Lung and gut ultrasound: can they go hand in hand?

09:40-10:50

5 Abstract Presentations


(8 minutes each, 2 questions each)

10:50-11:00

Coffee Break

XII Session: ROUND TABLE: late breathing news in lung ultrasound

11:00-11:15

Relationship between lung aeration and cerebral perfusion

11:15-11:30

Ultrasound or clinical scores to monitor infants with bronchiolitis?

11:30-11:45

Meta-analytical data on lung ultrasound to predict surfactant need in preterm neonates

11:45-12:00

Quantitative lung ultrasound: can the scores be further improved?

12:00-12:15

Intersociety recommendation for POCUS in adult, pediatric and neonatal critical care: the Italian experience

12:15-12:45

Q&A and Discussion

12:45

Wrap up & Closing Remarks