Daniele De Luca

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.

14/12/2025

Una nuova edizione del corso di ecografia polmonare in italiano a Parigi
Venite ad imparare dagli esperti !
Il team della rianimazione neonatal-pediatrica dell’ospedale Beclere-Università Paris Saclay, guidato dal Prof. De Luca, a grande richiesta, organizza una nuova edizione del ben rodato corso teorico-pratico di ecografia polmonare in terapia intensiva neonatale, pediatrica ed in pediatria. Si tratta del corso che ha già fatto apprendere migliaia di discenti da tanti anni, e questa volta esclusivamente dedicato, in italiano, a specializzandi, dottorandi e giovani specialisti italiani.
Si svolgerà in una giornata full, lunedi 9 febbraio 2026, ed incidentalmente dara la possibilità, per chi é interessato, di visitare la rianimazione e conoscere il team.
Per maggiori info scrivere a Valerie.bonal@aphp.fr

08/12/2025

At the Hot Topics to present for the first time in America the reccomendations from The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health Commission for the Future of Neonatology.

Neonatology shall exist as a separate discipline and shall be flourishing to give a bright future to our babies! No more precautionary mindset allowed. More innovation and higher quality newborn healthcare.

Nemours

28/11/2025

Abstract submission is open! And as last year, we will assign the Neonatal Innovation Award!!!
We wait you at the !!!

https://www.mcascientificevents.eu/volt/scientific-programme/

European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC)

Scientific Programme - VOLT 7th LAUNCH 2026 - 7th International Congress on Vital Monitoring & Ultrasound

24/11/2025

BPD is a field that has suffered lack of innovation and high quality, physiology-driven research for way too long. In my interview in Contemporary Pediatrics I cover the background and the preliminary data about the use of r-hu-SPD (zelpultide-alpha), a new promising drug in the field. We have the blessing to have few experimental treatments underway and zelpultide-alpha has a strong biological background as it may restore physiological levels of SPD, that are too low in premies, particularly in those with BPD. Thanks to AIFA-Agenzia Italiana del farmaco and Agencia Española de Medicamentos y Productos Sanitarios and Airway Therapeutics, zelpultide-alpha is now under advanced investigation in Italy, Spain and soon in other EU and American countries.

We need to continue this way and protect babies from their disease, not just from innovation. I dream of a future with several drugs capable to adress the different BPD phenotypes we have begun to uncover. Several phenotypes, One hope.

A phase 1b study of zelpultide alfa demonstrated a favorable safety profile and encouraging early reductions in BPD and ventilation duration, supporting advancement to a pivotal international Phase 2b/3 program.

20/11/2025

The debate is on and the King is naked. Neonatology is not actually just a predicatric branch but a much more complex multi/cross-disciplinary disciplines (needing anesthesiology, critical care, ObGyn, fetal medicine and surgery and bioengineering training). Few weeks ago American colleagues asked for the creation of a new specialty named “neonatal critical care”. The wording is perfect and is not by chance that this proposal has been published on the Journal of Perinatology, the official journal of the fetoneonatal section of the American Academy of Pediatrics

As the biggest pediatric European society and the only entirely dedicated to critical care, European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC) strongly supports this proposal. It is even more needed in Europe where there are only few full professors of neonatology and the specialty, in some Countries, is not even recognised within pediatrics

Read the ESPNIC support letter here:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41372-025-02502-y.epdf?sharing_token=YXctEyPCVC_RqfRzz-PSdtRgN0jAjWel9jnR3ZoTv0M9SE3VcxqmI_svG94so3GsdPw1X0L9W7_TvOzPvHR9F_OkwBbcgv-sE9DdLYWgFYy1jmIHj2mlI_hmp7P9WdY3XhtQa6tDQA8e_8v0XhcsV3K0LTfACMSxy29kulrb4Gw%3D

18/11/2025

Do not miss the 7th edition of the only Congress entirely dedicated to ultrasound and monitoring in NICU/PICU! Key opinion leaders, new guidelines, workshops and much more !!!
European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC)

Are you exploring new advances in and ultrasound, critical care imaging, or vital monitoring? Share your findings with colleagues and experts from around the world at 2026

Submit your abstract here✍: https://bit.ly/VOLT_ABSTRACT
Register for the congress✅: https://bit.ly/VOLT_REGISTRATION
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VOLT 2026: Vital Monitoring and Ultrasound
22-24 January 2026
Rome, Italy
www.voltcongress.eu
Congress President: Prof. Daniele De Luca
Congress Registration: https://bit.ly/VOLT_REGISTRATION
Abstract Submission: https://bit.ly/VOLT_ABSTRACT

11/11/2025

Parlando di neonatologia al “Tempo della Salute” nella bellissima cornice del Palazzo dei Giureconsulti per il Corriere della Sera

Sessioni disponibili qui: https://video.corriere.it/le-vie-nervose-delle-carezze/bfa0b92b-d2c7-4e3b-b06f-70ab82f17xlk