28th – 29th June 2002
Faculté de Médecine de Tours, France
Friday 28th June 2002
08.00 – 08.55 Registration, coffee
08.55 Professor Elie Saliba and Dr Nikki Robertson: Welcome
Chairman: Dr Nikki Robertson
09.00 MA Thomson
The effect of early nasal CPAP on lung function and injury in a primate model of BPD
09.15 U Theilan (introduced by Dr AJ Lyon)
Does infection with Ureaplasma urealyticum result in a specific clinical and radiological pattern in the preterm infant?
09.30 A Greenough
Prediction of chronic lung disease from chest radiograph appearance at 7 days of age
09.45 C Lacamp (introduced by Dr W Tin)
Oxygen monitoring: too low or too high? National survey of oxygen saturation monitoring policies and the audit of the effect of change of policy in a single Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU)
10.00 NJ Shaw
First year morbidity among infants discharged home in oxygen
10.15 R Thwaites
Relative risks of respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) hospitalisation in the first 2 years of life in premature infants with and without neonatal respiratory illness
10.30-11.0 Coffee
Chairman: Professor Terence Stephenson
11.00 Young Investigator Prize Lecture: Dr Helen Budge, Academic Division of Child Health, Nottingham, UK
Programming of fetal adipose tissue development by maternal nutrition and prolactin.
11.45 CM Wong (introduced by Dr I Laing)
Changes in plasma cortisol with ventilation and analgesia in preterm infants
12.00 A Jain
Blood concentration of amethocaine and its metabolite after topical application
12.15 JC Litten
The effect of maternal dietary supplementation in late gestation on the behavioural development of the neonatal pig
12.30-14.00 Lunch
Chairman: Dr Paul Johnson
14.00 The Tizard Lecture: Professor Petra Hűppi, Director of Child Development Unit, University Hospitals of Geneva, Switzerland
Steroids and the developing brain – what have magnetic resonance techniques taught us ?
15.00 NJ Robertson
Secondary energy failure in a neonatal rat brain slice model
15.15 VF Puddy (introduced by Dr S Calvert)
Brain natriuretic peptide concentrations predict haemodynamically significant patent ductus arteriosus in preterm infants
15.30-16.00 Tea
Chairman: Dr Andrew Lyon
16.00 EA Gaillard
Increased sodium absorption across the nasal epithelium of ventilated moderately preterm infants on the first day of postnatal life
16.15 RY Bhat
Effect of posture on oxygenation and respiratory function in prematurely born infants studied prior to discharge
16.30 A Hassan
Apnoea and periodic breathing
16.45 JA Leipälä
Proportional assist ventilation – in vitro assessment of the effect of unloading on ventilator performance
17.00 E Kodas
Reversibility of n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFA) diet deficiency-induced alterations of dopaminergic neurotransmission: critical role of developmental stage
Saturday 29th June 2002
Chairman Professor Anne Greenough
09.30 A Majumdar
Computerised breath sounds analysis in term and preterm infants
09.45 EM Murdoch
Impaired splanchnic haemodynamic responses to enteral feeding in preterm growth restricted infants
10.00 Modi N
Differential regulation of subcutaneous and visceral adipose tissue mass in early infancy
10.15 KS Perkins
The effects of maternal dietary fat supplement during late gestation on the growth performance and endocrine profile of the neonatal pig
10.30 T Stephenson
Effect of maternal nutrient restriction during late-gestation on hepatic prolactin receptor (PRLR) abundance in neonatal lambs
10.45 MP Ward Platt
Evaluation of Advanced Neonatal Nurse Practitioners: Confidential enquiry into the management of sentinel cases
11.00 K Turnock (introduced by Dr R Thwaites)
Scoring for the future: SNAPE-II works in Wessex
11.15 DWA Milligan
Nursing workload by dependency category of baby in a tertiary neonatal intensive care setting
11.30-12.00 Coffee
Chairman: Professor Elie Saliba
12.00 Keynote speaker: Professor Pierre Gressens, Laboratoire de Neurologie du Développement, INSERM E9935, Hôpital Robert Debre, Paris, France
Neuroprotection in the newborn brain – interactions between stress, glutamate and glucocorticoids
13.00-14.00 Lunch
14.00 End of Scientific session