Annual Congress Berlin 2008

Saturday, 04.10.2008
Sunday, 05.10.2008
Monday, 06.10.2008
Tuesday, 07.10.2008
Wednesday, 08.10.2008

Citations should be made in the following way: Authors. Title. Eur Respir J 2008; 32: Suppl. 52, abstract number.

Material from 2008:

3952 Abstracts
658 Slide presentations
316 Webcasts
96 Handouts
1824 e-posters
316 Multimedia files

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Neonatal intensive care: ventilation and beyond

Thematic Poster Session
Chairs: S. Kotecha (Cardiff, United Kingdom), R. Ross-Russell (Cambridge, United Kingdom)

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Awake and asleep oxygen saturations in infants with chronic lung disease of prematurity (CLD) S. Sykes, R. Kingshott, R. Primhak (Sheffield, Norwich, United Kingdom)
Short-term effects of prone position in preterm without acute respiratory distress A. Salvador, A. L. Morsch (Erechim/Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil)
Sleeping position and lung function of prematurely born infants at the high risk age for sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) T. Saiki, H. Rao, S. Hannam, G. Rafferty, A. Greenough (London, United Kingdom)
Effect of caffeine on respiratory muscle and lung function in prematurely born, ventilated infants Z. Kassim, G. Rafferty, A. Greenough (London, United Kingdom)
Proportional assist ventilation – does it work? D. S. Patel, K. Masumoto, S. Lee, S. Hannam, A. Milner, A. Greenough (London, United Kingdom)
Noninvasive ventilation in a newborn intensive care unit D. Dmytriiev, K. Bercun (Vinnitsa, Ukraine)
Pneumotachographic volume and leak measurements during CPAP in neonates H. Fischer, C. C. Roehr, H. Proquitté, R. R. Wauer, G. Schmalisch (Berlin, Germany)
A novel method of distal end-tidal CO₂ capnography in intubated infants: comparison to arterial CO₂ and to proximal mainstream end-tidal CO₂ A. Kugelman, D. Zeiger-Aginsky, D. Bader, I. Shoris, A. Riskin (Haifa, Israel)
Reliability of PEEP in neonatal resuscitation – comparison of two common ventilation devices C. C. Roehr, M. Kelm, G. Schmalisch, R. Wauer, H. Proquitté (Berlin, Germany)
Cerebral perfusion in critically ill newborn infants treated with non-invasive ventilation (NIV) D. Dmytriiev, K. Dmytriieva (Vinnitsa, Ukraine)
Effect of angiotensin converting enzyme (ACE) gene polymorphism on diaphragmatic endurance in neonates G. Dimitriou, D. Papakonstantinou, E. Stavrou, S. Tzifas, M. Papathanasiou, A. Athanassiadou, S. Mantagos (Patras, Greece)
Preterm infants have subclinically reduced myocardial function compared with healthy term controls S. Joshi, J. M. Edwards, D. W. Wilson, O. Uzun, M. Drayton, A. G. Fraser, S. Kotecha (Cardiff, United Kingdom)
Diene conjugates in bronchoalveolar lavage fluid as a predictor of bronchopulmonary displasia in infant with RDS P. Minochkin, I. Volchegorskij (Chelyabinsk, Russian Federation)
The different treatment effects of partial liquid ventilation and surfactant therapy in injured ventilated small lungs S. Hartenstein, U. Koelsch, R. R. Wauer, G. Schmalisch, H. Proquitté (Berlin, Magdeburg, Germany)
Ventilator-associated pneumonia in newborn with diaphragmatic hernia D. Dmytriiev, K. Dmytriieva, K. Bercun (Vinnitsa, Ukraine)
Nosocomial neonatal pneumonia characteristics in a tertiary children‘s hospital in Iran G. Ebrahimi, M. Mirsaeidi, P. Tabarsi, P. Peyrani, Z. Shariat, H. Fakhraei, D. Mansouri (Tehran, Islamic Republic Of Iran; Louisville, KY, United States Of America)
Ureaplasma in chronic lung disease of prematurity – strains, resistance and treatment N. C. Maxwell, M. L. Beeton, O. B. Spiller, S. Kotecha (Cardiff, United Kingdom)