Daniele De Luca

23/02/2026

After the great success of our first Point-of-Care Ultrasound (POCUS) in PICU/NICU collection, we are proud to announce the launch of POCUS2 at the .
POCUS has become an essential part of daily practice in critical care. It is accurate, fast, non-invasive, and immediately available at the bedside. It helps guide procedures, sharpens diagnostic thinking, and gives real-time insight into acute pathophysiology in critically ill children and neonates. That matters. Because better understanding leads to better decisions, and better decisions lead to better care.
It is often called the “stethoscope of the new millennium.” I understand why. Almost every unit now has access to ultrasound. Teaching initiatives are expanding worldwide. At the same time, research continues to refine how we use and interpret POCUS responsibly and effectively.
With POCUS2, we have invited leading experts in the field to provide comprehensive and up-to-date reviews across organ systems in pediatric and neonatal critical care. The goal is simple: clarity, quality, and practical relevance for clinicians at the bedside. Send us your papers!!!

22/02/2026

I had the pleasure to participate to the workshop and Annual Assembly of the Pontifical Academy for Life about “Healthcare for all: sustainability and equity”.

As clinician first and then as academic scholar I could not think about a hotter topic nowadays. We were used to think about inequalities between developed world and LMIC but inequalities are everywhere. Rethinking to provide efficacious and sustainable healthcare to all must continue so as to answer one of the most important and basic human needs. This is even more important for the smallest and frailest patients: this is why the Academy will hold a full day virtual event about these problems at the limit of viability (stay tuned for this). Health is crucial for everybody and “one health” approach is truly needed to see it as a common good as Pope Leo XIV detailed in his speech (https://www.vatican.va/content/leo-xiv/en/speeches/2026/february/documents/20260216-pav.html)

21/02/2026

Il 4 Marzo pv alla Camera dei deputati parleremo della dialisi extracorporea neonatale, una bellissima invenzione tutto italiana dal genio del prof. Claudio Ronco. Tra i primi ad utilizzarla contribuendo al network francese e occupandomi del training dei colleghi Californiani durante il mio periodo di Visting professorship a Stanford. Una bella storia di complessità, valore, difficoltà superate con dedizione e impegno per i più piccoli e gravemente malati. Un esempio particolarmente utile da ricordare in questi giorni.
Grazie Claudio per il tuo contributo unico a favore dei neonati più malati!!!

Corriere della Sera
Marcello Gemmato
Luca Zaia
Ministero della Salute

16/02/2026

Il lavoro in collaborazione tra Université Paris-Saclay e Università degli Studi di Padova frutto dell’accordo di collaborazione firmato nell’ambito del Trattato del Quirinale ha descritto su Lancet Regional Health Europe il fenotipo dei neonati con BPD severa. Un passo mai fatto prima verso una neonatologia personalizzata che potrebbe prevedere nuove terapie come IGF1 e SPD umana ricombinante o vescicole extracellulari che sono sperimentate dalle stesse due Università.

Ministero della Salute
Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale

Commento disponibile su Quotidiano Sanità Club qui:

https://www.quotidianosanita.it/scienza-e-farmaci/displasia-broncopolmonare-diagnosi-precoce-grazie-allecografia-polmonare-lo-studio-coordinato-da-padova-e-parigi/

26/01/2026

Tra una settimana: il primo evento sul futuro della neonatologia in Italia sull’onda delle raccomandazioni della The Lancet Commission for the Future of Neonatology. Venite a Roma al Museo Ninfeo martedì prossimo 3/2, partecipazione gratuita e libera. Possibile anche seguire via zoom al link sottostante

https://mailchi.mp/voltcongress.eu/quale-futuro-per-la-neonatologia-in-italia-10140284?e=be662d1dc7

SIN - Società Italiana di Neonatologia

15/01/2026

One week to the next VOLT! The only Congress exclusively dedicated to lung ultrasound and advanced NICU/PICU monitoring !! It will be followed by half day of oratucal hands on course about ultrasound guided vascular access!!
Please come!!!!
For those you cannot, there will be the possibility to watch the whole Congress online on demand later !
European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC)

14/01/2026

Il nostro lavoro commentato su Le Scienze

Pubblicato su «Lancet Regional Health Europe» studio internazionale coordinato delle Università di Padova e Parigi

11/01/2026

Thanks to a strong European collaboration, after a long work, we have been able to identify the pathophysiological phenotypes of moderate - severe BPD in extremely preterm infants. Current BPD definitions do not capture these traits and do not identify these patients early enough to allow a treatment, let aside a personalized treatment. This is pivotal every baby is different and experimental therapies (such as r-hu-IGF1/IGFBP, r-hu-SPD and MSC-EVs) are under advanced investigations and look promising. Babies developing more severe BPD have peculiar lung ultrasound finding with loss of lung aeration and impaired oxygenation early in life. Looking at these pathophysiological phenotypes, a targeted treatment will be possible.
Everything available open access on The Lancet Regional Health at: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S266677622500376X

European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC)

07/01/2026

The only Congress entirely dedicated to point of care ultrasound and vital monitoring in NICU and PICU! Three full days of lectures, exchanges, workshops and free presentations! Meet the world know. Key opinion leaders and do not miss the 7th edition!!
Program, info and registrations here https://www.mcascientificevents.eu/volt/scientific-programme/

European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC)
European Society of Intensive Care Medicine (ESICM)

02/01/2026

Martedì 3 febbraio a Roma si terrà il primo evento sullo stato della medicina neonatale in Italia sull’onda del report della The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health Commission for the Future of Neonatology. Prendendo le mosse da quest’analisi internazionale ci si calerà nel contesto italiano e nei suoi problemi ulteriori per poi elencare alcuni esempi positivi che abbiamo e da cui prender spunto per cambiare quello che va migliorato per una neonatologia che apporti grande valore al Paese.

Evento completamente gratuito e a libera partecipazione presso lo splendido Museo Ninfeo a Roma: siete benvenuti.

SIN - Società Italiana di Neonatologia
Sala Convegni Fondazione Enpam

01/01/2026

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01/01/2026

Join us in Rome for the next VOLT/LAUNCH Congress in three weeks… all the POCUS and advanced neo atal monitoring novelties on hand!!!

Only 3 weeks left until the premier international scientific congress exclusively dedicated to point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) and advanced vital monitoring in neonatal and pediatric critical care.