Let's try and answer THOSE questions:Challenging aspects of paediatric respiratory sleep medicine

This day-long postgraduate short course from Sleep Week in 2020 aims to address those areas of paediatric respiratory sleep medicine that challenge us all. An international panel of speakers will present on a range of topics relating to different aspects of sleep disordered breathing and ventilation in infants and children. The course will discuss controversial areas specific to paediatrics, such as the limitations of gold standard PSG monitoring, management of persistent OSA when CPAP fails and ethical issues around respiratory support in children with complex medical conditions.

This course is intended for paediatricians, sleep clinicians, sleep scientists/technicians, ENT surgeons, nurses, fellows, students and anyone involved in the management of infants and children with sleep disorders.

Presentations

• Unanswered questions in paediatric sleep disordered breathing: an overview – Jasneek Chawla 
• Infants with laryngomalacia – when does sleep monitoring help the surgeon? – Nicola Slee 
• Intricacies of ventilating infants: when does a tracheostomy help? – Joanna Maclean 
• When should we start ventilation in neuromuscular disease: an update on evidence – David Kilner  
• The AHI doesn’t help…what else can we use in paediatric OSA? – Colin Sullivan and Mark Norman 
• The ever-recurring question: which snoring child needs surgery? – Karen Waters 
•  My child won’t wear CPAP – what else can we try? The role of the ENT surgeon – Derek Lam 
•  My child won’t wear CPAP – what else can we try? Non-surgical options – Jasneek Chawla  
•  My child won’t wear CPAP – what else can we try? The role of the craniofacial surgeon – Yun Phua  
•  My child won’t wear CPAP… Does it matter? Complications of untreated OSA – Catherine Hill 
•  Withholding respiratory support in children – when is it the best thing to do? – Paul Walker