Clinical Respiratory Physiology of the Newborn

Theodore Dassios is a Professor of Neonatology at King’s College London and a Practising Neonatologist. He is the Chair of the Pulmonology Section of the European Society for Paediatric Research. He has served as the Course Director of the MSc in Advanced Paediatrics at King’s College London, the Module Lead for Neonatology in the same course and has acted as Chair of the Group “Neonatal and Paediatric Intensive Care” of the European Respiratory Society. He undertook his clinical neonatal training at King’s and Cambridge.Professor Dassios has delivered lectures as faculty and invited speaker in the Cambridge Ventilation Course and in the Annual Congresses of the European Society of Paediatric Research. He has published extensively on neonatal respiratory physiology and pathophysiology and has introduced a number of clinical modalities at King’s College Hospital relating to advanced neonatal respiratory monitoring and treatment, such as continuous side stream capnography, the administration of less invasive surfactant and closed loop automated oxygen control. He currently supervises three PhD students and a clinical lecturer. His current research interests include the quantification of oxygenation impairment in neonatal lung disease, the study of neonatal respiratory muscle function and the use of capnography in neonatal mechanical ventilation.

• The respiratory system before and after birth.- Common neonatal respiratory disorders.- Ventilation.- Diffusion.- Perfusion.- Ventilation to Perfusion relationships.- Oxygen transport to the tissues.- Mechanics of breathing.- Work of breathing.- Control of respiration.- Ventilator waveforms.- The neonatal respiratory system at critical extremes.- Children and adults with a history of neonatal lung disease.- Lung function tests in neonates.