Daniele De Luca

04/08/2025

For the first time the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC) annual congress is completely available online on demand. This is a great opportunity to “spread the gospel” of good science in NICU and PICU field and increases the availability to colleagues who, for one reason or another, cannot attend physically. In a work like ours it is also useful to save a presentation and review it later when it may be more needed depending on the educational need based on clinical work. All in all a great advancement for NICU and PICU and our academic world!!!!

All the insights from ESPNIC 2025 — in your pocket. Access the full library of on demand contents from the leading congress in neonatal and paediatric intensive care.

31/07/2025

Point-of-care ultrasonography (POCUS) is an adjunctive, portable clinical assessment tool that in the hands of trained clinicians can support differential diagnosis, clarify therapeutic options, and improve key procedures. For emergent situations in the neonatal intensive care unit, POCUS can save l...

25/07/2025

Thanks to my colleagues, we have finally answered a recurrent question from clinicians taking care of severest neonatal RDS. When should we go for an ultrasound-guided surfactant re-treatment? It was very complex to answer as we needed many patients given the low prevalence of retreatment with optimal resoiratory care. Thus we needed a multi center design with centers having exactly the same respiratory care policy and the right timing for a second poractant-alpha dose (see our paper in Intensive Care Medicine 2011, back in another era!)… but we did it! Lung ultrasound aeration score indicates the need for retreatment with the same accuracy and same threshold of the first dose but only if performed about 12h from the first dose! 705 extremely preterm patients, in three academic NICUs in 🇪🇺(🇫🇷🇮🇹🇪🇸) published on The Lancet EBiomedicine, open access available at:

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352396425003093?ref=pdf_download&fr=RR-2&rr=964ef59a5e68bb36

23/07/2025

We will not forget you. RIP
Ida Salvo
European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC)

Dear ESPNIC Members,

On Saturday 19th July, our lovely friend and colleague Edoardo Calderini, passed away after a long disease. Edoardo was the Division Chief in the PICU of Policlinico Maggiore in Milan and former ESPNIC Chair of Educational Affairs. A very nice guy, humble and very dynamic member.

We mourne the loss and will miss his active participation in ESPNIC life.

Rest in peace Edoardo!

16/07/2025

For those of you who could not attend the European launch of the recommendations from the The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health Commission on the Future of Neonatology is available for free here:

https://mailchi.mp/mcascientificevents.eu/espnic2025-10138219-euf6fp092x-10139277?e=be662d1dc7

Listen to the presentation and the following round table organised at the congress of the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC)

34th Annual Meeting of the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care 25 – 28 June 2025 • Alicante, Spain

11/07/2025

Il Corriere della Sera commenta il lavoro della The Lancet Commission on the Future of Neonatology. L’Italia può diventare capofila dell’innovazione al servizio dei malati piu piccoli e fragili, realizzando quello che sinora in Europa e Nordamerica é stato difficile, grazie alla nostra sensibilità, all’industria farmaceutica italiana ed all’attenzione che dobbiamo ai bambini
AIFA Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco - pagina ufficiale Ministero della Salute

https://www.corriere.it/salute/figli-genitori/neonato/25_luglio_10/neonatologia-la-ricetta-di-100-esperti-per-costruire-il-futuro-dell-assistenza-sanitaria-ai-piu-piccoli-e-fragili-bbf41322-c087-4a2c-80d1-00d721703xlk.shtml?refresh_ce

09/07/2025

🌏Manifiesto global para salvar el futuro de la 📜
👉🏻Elaborado por casi 100 expertos ✅✅y publicado en
The Lancet Child and Adolescent Health , este informe alerta sobre los riesgos que enfrenta y urge a tomar medidas inmediatas⚠️
🔗Documento completo:
https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352464225001063?dgcid=coauthor

08/07/2025

For those of you who could not attend the European launch of the recommendations from the The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health Commission on the Future of Neonatology is available for free here

https://lnkd.in/ghk7pJVP

Listen to the presentation and the following round table organised at the congress of the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC)

06/07/2025

Un mio plauso ad AIFA Agenzia Italiana del Farmaco - pagina ufficiale per l’attenzione rivolta alla ricerca indipendente sulle malattie rare. Questa iniziativa é unica in Europa e pienamente in linea con le necessità -drammatiche direi- della neonatologia di rispondere a ancora troppe malattie neonatali incurabili come delineato dalla Lancet Commission for the Future of Neonatology, il cui documento é stato recentemente pubblicato qui: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352464225001063?dgcid=coauthor

Corriere della Sera

28/06/2025

That has been the honor of a lifetime. After 20y of membership and 15y of active service, the European Society of Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care (ESPNIC) Executive Committee presented me with the Honorary Lifetime Membership, a honor very seldom given in our society. I can only say that ESPNIC is the largest, more active and dynamic European paediatric society and the only exclusively dedicated to critical care. More and above this, ESPNIC is truly and fully democratic and transparent as it is built on multidisciplinarity (PICU&NICU, medical and nursing care) which is pivotal to advance knowledge and improve care. NICU is not a silo, everybody should be open and learn from each other! Becoming an ESPNIC member is an added value and a pleasure, and if it is so it is thanks to these wonderful friends…. No one is like you, no other society has this all. I am rooting for you all and for ESPNIC, which will always have my support and commitment for a better PICU/NICU care