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ESPO Online Pediatric Tracheostomy Courses

18th & 25th September 2020

 

Dear Friends and Colleagues,

You are invited to participate in ESPO’s online courses on Pediatric Tracheostomy, which will take place on Friday, 18th September (Part 1) and Friday, 25th September (Part 2) at 5.00-7.00PM (Central European time).

The 5 speakers presenting are Bas Pullens (Rotterdam, The Netherlands), who is the coordinator of these two courses, Kate Stephenson (Birmingham, UK), Joana Araujo (Lisbon, Portugal), Georgios Papatziamos (Stockholm, Sweden) and Joanna Matthews (Birmingham, UK).

After successfully running these courses in April and June, we would now like to give everybody the opportunity (not only ESPO Members) to join these two courses. There is a special rate for ESPO Members and Residents at 20 Euro (per course) and for Non-Members the cost to attend is 40 Euro (per course).

In order to book your attendance, please follow this link: ESPO online course. Please note, places are limited.

If you wish to become a member, in order to avail of the reduced rate for the online courses, you can do so here:

 

Programme

 

Part 1 covers the following topics:

  • Indications, pre-operative assessment & tracheostomy tube choice
  • surgical technique
  • surgical and post-operative complications
  • first tube change & education of the nursing team and parents

 

Part 2 covers the following topics:

  • Organizing home-care and the out-patient multi-disciplinary team
  • Tracheostomy (speaking) valves, capping and tracheostomy-associated swallowing issues
  • Decannulation protocols
  • Late complications of pediatric tracheostomy

We look forward to you joining us for these engaging and informative sessions.

Best wishes,

Bas Pullens

ENT-surgeon

Pediatric otorhinolaryngology

Sophia Children’s hospital, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

 

Vincent Couloigner

Chairman of the ESPO Education & Training Committee

 

Martin Bailey

ESPO Secretary-General