MCA Scientific Events 35th International Congress of ESPNIC 2026

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+ Target Audience: Neonatologists, Pediatric Intensivists, Pediatric Pulmonologists, Pediatric Cardiologists, Pediatric Neurologists, Pediatric Nephrologists, Pediatric Oncologists

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The 35th International Congress of the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC) will take place from June 16-19, 2026, at the Mediterranean Conference Centre in Valletta, Malta. The theme of the congress is “Science of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care,” emphasizing the core values of multidisciplinary and multi-professional intensive care medicine. ESPNIC is the premier pediatric and neonatal critical care medicine society globally, and this event provides a platform to share physiological and technological advances, guidelines, and research to improve care for the sickest children.

Learning Objectives

While engaging with this conference, participants will be able to:

• Apply standardized terminology and adjust ventilator settings for neonatal and pediatric mechanical ventilation, including non-invasive support, HFO, and prone positioning.

• Enhance communication, debriefing, and self-awareness skills within the high-stress critical care environment.

• Utilize advanced neuro-monitoring techniques such as NIRS, aEEG, and neurosonology to guide clinical decisions.

• Perform Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) for cardiac evaluations, lung assessments, and complex vascular access in the NICU and PICU.

• Manage septic shock by optimizing antibiotics, fluids, inotropes, and identifying indications for blood purification or ECMO.

• Execute Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation (ECMO) cannulation, manage circuit emergencies, and establish weaning protocols.

• Navigate difficult airway management using video laryngoscopy, fiberoptic intubation, and front-of-neck access (FONA).

• Implement the latest guidelines and emerging evidence in pediatric sepsis, resuscitation, hemodynamics, and nutrition.

Target Audience

• Our core values are truly multidisciplinary and multi-professional, focusing on intensive care medicine for the most critically ill patients and their families that we are daily taking care of in the neonatal (NICU) and the paediatric intensive care unit (PICU).
• Best for Neonatologists, Pediatric Intensivists, Pediatric Pulmonologists, Pediatric Cardiologists, Pediatric Neurologists, Pediatric Nephrologists, Pediatric Oncologists, and Critical Care Nurses.

Topics

• Masterclasses

  • Paediatric and Neonatal Mechanical Ventilation

  • Communication and Debriefing Skills

  • Advanced Neuro-Monitoring

  • POCUS in Neonatal and Paediatric Intensive Care Unit

  • Septic Shock

  • ECMO

  • Difficult Airway Management

• Plenary Sessions

  • Creating a better PICU

  • HOT LATEST GUIDELINES – New resuscitation guidelines

  • HOT LATEST GUIDELINES – SSC Guidelines

  • Frontiers in paediatric critical care: physiological & technological advances

  • When medicine meets law – decision making, disputes and future of paediatric critical care

  • What can we learn from… (pARDS, AI & digital innovation, acute kidney injury)

  • Ethical conundrums in paediatrics critical care

  • The next 10 Year

• Scientific & Interdisciplinary Sessions

  • Respiratory Battles in PICU: PEEP, Breathing, and the Ventilation Divide

  • At the heart of innovation in cardiac critical care

  • The ICU moving home: transition to long-term home mechanical ventilation in children

  • Neurocritical care 2026: rethinking inflammation and perfusion targets

  • New Horizons in Neonatal High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation

  • Nursing care practices update

  • Beyond survival: redefining outcomes for the extremely preterm infant

  • Conundrums in liver intensive care

  • Hands-on CRRT emergencies

  • Resuscitation beyond algorithms: people, presence, and performance

  • Resuscitation without borders: neonate to trauma bay

  • Infection, inflammation and sepsis: what’s new in your field?

  • Pharmacokinetics in the fast lane

  • How POCUS changed my practice?

  • Smart but simple: practical technology in the CICU

  • Children with cancer coming to your PICU: time for personalized management?

  • PICU Liberation re-imagined

  • Creating a mindful recovery

  • PRIMERS – Back to basics: what intensivists always wanted to know about

  • Conundrums in the management of shock

  • Blood management: blood is gold

  • The ins and outs of BPD: from birth into adulthood

  • Oncological emergencies: what should the intensivist know?

  • Beyond dialysis: protecting and restoring the pediatric kidney

  • Intravenous fluid management: moving away from uncertainty

  • First, do no harm: rethinking what we infuse in PICU

  • Neurocritical care reimagined: from big data to bedside

  • High flow nasal cannula in the critically ill child: current evidence and clinical applications

  • Extracorporeal support in liver ICU

  • Protecting the paediatric lung and diaphragm: challenges and tools

  • The delicate brain: sedation, haemodynamics, and humanising care

  • Fluids, steroids, and beyond: modern cardiac critical care

  • New pediatric sepsis guidelines

  • The future is today – how AI will change pediatric and neonatal intensive care

  • The next generation of ICU healthcare professionals

  • Medication effects on growing bodies and minds with failing organs

  • The art of writing and publishing – Best of journals

  • From evidence to impact: improving outcomes in PICU

  • Clinical challenges in paediatric and neonatal critical care nutrition and metabolism

  • ESPNIC EURO-ELSO Joint session

  • The NEXT GENERATION of PICU trials

  • What’s new in your field: 2026 updates on best practices in critical care

  • ESPNIC-SCCM Session

  • Decoding the brain: biomarkers, monitoring, and meaning in neurocritical care

  • Challenges in paediatric and neonatal critical care

  • Should we offer ECMO in….?