Course price to be confirmed and bookings open January 2026
Neonatal Ventilation Course
Tuesday 19th May – Thursday 21st May 2026
Madingley Hall, Cambridge, UK
This long-standing course is suitable for neonatal and paediatric consultants, trainees and nurse practitioners who want to have a good understanding of the principles and practice of neonatal respiratory care and wish to advance their training in this area. The course is 3 days long. Day 1 introduces basic concepts of ventilation. Days 2 and 3 deal with more advanced concepts of respiratory practice with practical sessions in the afternoon.
Topics:
Lectures:
• Intubation and video laryngoscopy
• Basic respiratory physiology
• Conventional ventilation modes (CMV, SIMV, SIPPV and PSV)
• Volume targeted ventilation
• Responding to blood gases and emergencies of ventilated infants
• Neonatal chest X-ray interpretation
• Waveforms, loops and patient-ventilator interactions
• Monitoring ventilation
• Automation of ventilation
• NAVA ventilation
• HFOV and HFOV-VG
• Non-invasive ventilation
• Disease specific ventilation strategies
• Point of care lung ultrasound
• Nitric oxide in the term and preterm infant
• Surfactant therapy
• Echocardiography of the ventilated infant
• Management of PPHN
• Ventilation case reviews
Practical sessions:
Practical sessions will be both on days 2 and 3 between 14:00 – 17:00. During them faculty members will present and discuss common clinical scenarios for small groups of participants using various neonatal ventilator models set up for use with artificial lungs. There is also a video-laryngoscopy session where delegates can learn and practice the use of these devices.
Course organizer:
Dr Gusztav Belteki
Faculty:
Dr Gusztav Belteki (Cambridge, UK)
Dr Theodor Dassios (London, UK)
Dr Shazia Hoodbhoy (Cambridge, UK)
Dr Jackie Hughes (Cambridge, UK)
Dr Sajeev Job (Cambridge, UK)
Dr Zoltan Molnar (Oxford, UK)
Dr Gautham Rajendran (Cambridge, UK)
Dr Christoph Ruegger (Zurich, Switzerland)
Dr Sandeep Shetty (London, UK)
Dr Yogen Singh (Cambridge, UK)
Dr Nadya Yousef (Paris, France)
Participants’ feedback from previous years:
“Excellent and simple to understand.”
“The content was very timely with the new advances in neonatal medicine.”
“Easily applicable and relatable approach to our clinical practice in the neonatal unit.”
“Very good course to have a comprehensive idea of neonatal ventilation and strategies. Very good faculty...”
“I will definitely recommend this course to my colleagues. I think it is of great value to any trainee who has a special interest in Neonatology.”
“Excellent course and really well organised. I really enjoyed it and learnt a lot from the speakers.”