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Noninvasive ventilation and noninvasive CPAP in the PICU

Case-based session
Chairs: B. Fauroux (Paris, France)
Aims: To discuss clinical cases of paediatric noninvasive ventilation and noninvasive CPAP in the PICU.

Case presentation: High flow nasal canula oxygen as non-invasive ventilation modality to treat severe restrictive lung disease in an infant with skeletal anomaly. T. Polychronakis (Cambridge (Cambridgeshire), United Kingdom)
Case presentation: The successful extubation of a paediatric patient, following 3 previous failed extubations, through the use of non-invasive (NIV) neutrally adjusted ventilator assist (NAVA). L. Flaxman (London, United Kingdom), . Melkuhn (London, United Kingdom)
Case of a child L. Corel (Rotterdam, Netherlands)
Case of an infant A. Amaddeo (Paris, France)