Topics
NEONATAL BRAIN
Brain cooling
Prevention of brain injury
Brain imaging
Neonatal seizures
NEONATAL LUNG
Prevention of lung injury at birth
Update on surfactant
Ventilation techniques to minimize lung injury
BPD: Changing concepts
DEBATED TOPICS
GER: to treat or not to treat
PDA closure: pro and cons
Oxygen in neonatal resuscitation
Early exclusive enteral feeding vs TPN in VLBW infants
Rapid postnatal growth in VLBW infants: pro and cons
NUTRITION
Nutrition of VLBWI
Human milk in VLBWI nutrition
Human milk fortification
Prebiotics in infant nutrition
Perinatal origins of adult diseases
EXTREMELY LOW BIRTH WEIGHT INFANTS
Survival
Long-term follow-up
Life and of life decision
Optimal resuscitation in the delivery room
Ethical issues
PROMISES AND CONFIRMATIONS
Prenatal therapy of genetic diseases by stem cells
Quality improvement in NICU
Learning from errors: error monitoring systems
Quantitative bone ultrasound: where are we?
The “Cell Factory”
INFECTIONS
Intrauterine infections
Nosocomial infections
New infectious agents

