Scientific Program

Limited to 30 seats - First come, first served 

Chairpersons :
Brigitte Fauroux - Paris, France
Renato Cutrera - Rome, Italy

1. PLTNIV: Definition and Situation.
Renato Cutrera - Rome, Italy

2. Ventilator Titration and Patient Monitoring.
Jean-Paul Praud - Sherbrooke, Canada

3. Management of Complex OSA in Children.
Styn Verhulst - Antwerp, Belgium

4. PLTNIV in Children with Neuromuscular Diseases.
Rosario Ferreira - Lisbon, Portugal

5. PLTNIV in Pediatric Lung Diseases.
Brigitte Fauroux - Paris, France

6. PLTNIV in Central Hypoventilation Syndromes (CCHS and ROHHAD)
Marti Pons Odena - Barcelona, Spain

9:00 - 10.30: Chairperson:: Luísa Guedes Vaz - Porto, Portugal

1. Genetics of Tuberculosis.
Paulo Camargos - Belo Horizonte, Brazil

2. Difficult to control asthma: diagnosis and treatment. Paulo Pitrez-  Porto Alegre, Brazil and Inês Azevedo - Portugal

11.00 - 12.30:  Chairperson: Celeste Barreto - Portugal

3. Early CF lung disease:

    - The Brazilian experience. Luíz Vicente Silva Filho - Sao Paulo,   Brazil -                    

    - The Portuguese experience. Luisa Pereira - Lisbon, Portugal

4.  Epidemiology and clinical patterns of Community Acquired Pneumonias. Teresa Bandeira - Lisbon,Portugal   

5. A role for macrolides in recurrent wheeze and asthma? Renato Stein - Porto Alegre, Brazil

The Perspective on Current and New Techniques To Evaluate Lung Function in Infants and Preschoolers.
Marcus Jones - Porto Alegre, Brazil

Attendance limited to 20 participants.
Free but mandatory on site registration on the basis "first come first served"

Hands-on Sessions with Ventilators and Masks

Facilitators:

- Clinicians: Rosario Ferreira & Ana Saianda
- Technician: Ana Margarida Silva & Andreia Delcalço

NB. The participants will be split into small groups.
Limited to 30 seats - First come, first served.

13:30 - 16:00 Moderator: Guilhermina Reis - Porto, Portugal

1. Airway malatias and other perturbations. Miguel Felix  -  Coimbra, Portugal

2. Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia. Marcus Jones - Porto Alegre, Brazil

3. Reviewing the guidelines:

  - Management of acute viral bronchiolitis. Luis Vicente Silva Filho - Sao Paulo,  Brazil

  - Recurrent preschool wheeze. Ricardo Fernandes - Portugal

  - Discussion: Renato Stein, Teresa Bandeira, and Marcus Jones

17:30 - 18:15 Welcoming Addresses
Adnan Custovic - CIPP XVI President
Teresa Bandeira - President Local Organizing Committee

18:15 - 19:00 Keynote Lecture
E-Cigarettes: The New Smoking?
Tom Ferkol - Saint Louis, USA

19:00 - 20:30 Welcoming Cockail
In the exterior patio