PG20 - Endstage lung disease in children

Postgraduate Course
Chairs: H. Tiddens (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), B. Fauroux (Paris, France)
Aims: Endstage lung disease cuts across all ages and many disciplines, and the management is intellectually and ethically challenging. At the end of this course, participants will be updated on:
• innovative therapies to try to rescue children with apparently terminal respiratory failure;
• the pros and cons of the various invasive and noninvasive means of respiratory support;
• the indications for, and optimal ways of supporting, the lung transplant candidate;
• the management of children with pulmonary hypertension.

When your back is to the wall: what rescue therapies may be worthwhile? A. Bush (London, United Kingdom)
The role of invasive and noninvasive respiratory support in children with endstage lung disease B. Fauroux (Paris, France)
Nutritional support in endstage lung disease in children R. Hamutcu (Istanbul, Turkey)
Pulmonary hypertension in children M. Beghetti (Geneva, Switzerland)