Main Topics:

  • Basics of Mechanical ventilation: Art or Science.
  • Physiology of oxygenation and ventilation.
  • Scandinavian experience in minimal handling of premature infants.
  • Mechanical ventilation and the brain.
  • Oxidative injury of lung.
  • Surfactant Therapy.
  • Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia.
  • Update on CPAP and Non-Invasive Positive Pressure Ventilation.
  • Air leak, atelectasis and one lung ventilation.