Paediatric flexible bronchoscopy

Target audience

Pulmonologists and thoracic surgeons who want to train in diagnostic and therapeutic interventional pulmonology

Educational aims

  • Equipment needed to set up a bronchoscopy in children
  • Indications, contraindications
  • Anaesthesia, sedation, tolerance, side effects
  • Anatomical findings : upper and lower airways (normal/abnormal)
  • Bronchoalveolar lavage (techniques, indications, results)
  • Bronchial brushing, biopsy, transbronchial biopsy
  • FB in NICU

Equipment needed to set up a bronchoscopy
A. Barbato (Padova, Italy)
Slide presentation
Slide presentation
Anatomical findings: upper and lower airways
E. Eber (Graz, Austria)
PDF journal article, handout or slides
PDF journal article, handout or slides
Flexible Bronchoscopy in paediatric ICU
I.J. Doull (Cardiff, United Kingdom)
Slide presentation
Slide presentation
Bronchoalveolar lavage (techniques, indications, results)
F. Midulla (Roma, Italy)
Slide presentation
Slide presentation
Other techniques: brush, biopsy and transbronchial biopsy
P. Pohunek (Prague, Czech Republic)
PDF journal article, handout or slides
PDF journal article, handout or slides
Anaesthesia, sedation and tolerance
J. de Blic (Paris, France)
Slide presentationSlide presentation
Slide presentationSlide presentation