I.B Respiratory conditions
A short summary in PICUlearn's own words. The original wording is in the publisher's document.
- I.B.1 Acute pulmonary embolism
- I.B.2 Acute respiratory distress syndrome
- I.B.3 Acute respiratory failure
- I.B.4 Acute chest infection
- I.B.5 Chronic respiratory failure
- I.B.6 Chronic lung disease
- I.B.7 Congenital airway anomalies
- I.B.8 Pulmonary hypertension
- I.B.9 Life-threatening asthma
- I.B.10 Chest and airway trauma
- I.B.11 Thoracic surgery
35 practice questions on this
Join free to practise them.
Course modules
Videos
- Episode 42 PEDIATRIC advanced diagnostic and interventional bronchoscopyAABIPVideo
- Prone Positioning for Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)Rush University System for HealthVideo
- Primer On Use Of High Flow Nasal Cannula For Pediatric BronchiolitisThe Center for Medical EducationVideo
- How I insert a trauma chest tube in a child - chest drain rule of 4sDon't Forget The BubblesVideo
- Epiglottitis, Croup, Bronchiolitis - Pediatric Nursing - Respiratory Disorders | @LevelUpRNLevel Up RNVideo
- 132👶Critical Care 🏥Pediatric & Neonatal ICU – Cardiovascular, Respiratory, Neuro, & Renal Systems🚑🫀🫁Anesthesia and Perioperative MedicineVideo
- WFPICCS Webinar: Management of airway and complications in technology-dependent childrenWFPICCSVideo
- Pediatric Mechanical Ventilation TransitionsAmerican Thoracic SocietyVideo
- Lung Recruitment and prone positioning in pediatric ventilationWFPICCSVideo
- Prone Positioning in ARDS: Why, When, and How It Saves LivesThe Critical Care PractitionerVideo
- Pediatrics | Nelson Based Teaching | Acute bronchiolitis | RaaonlineRaaonline.co.inVideo
- Managing Bronchiolitis & Asthma in Community Hospitals Pending Transfer to Tertiary Critical CareThe Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids)Video
- Asthma by G. Wolf | OPENPediatricsOPENPediatricsVideo
- Why Prone Positioning Failed in Children | The Curley Trial Explained in 90 SecondsPICU ReviewVideo
- What is the role of prone positioning in pediatric ARDS? Dr Martin KneyberAll about newborn care!Video
- Asthma by J. Pian, L. Chiel, L. Rubin, A. Erickson | OPENPediatricsOPENPediatricsVideo
- Introduction to Mechanical Ventilation by G. Wolf | OPENPediatricsOPENPediatricsVideo
- PEEP, recruitment and proning: Opening the lung without bursting itWFPICCSVideo
- How to Approach Trauma Management 🩺🧠 | Emergency MedicineLecturio MedicalVideo
- Understanding BronchiolitisZero To FinalsVideo
- Bronchiolitis by A. Growdon | OPENPediatricsOPENPediatricsVideo
- Beyond Tidal Volume: Driving Pressure and Lung Protective Ventilation in PICUWFPICCSVideo
- Breath by breath: the real science of gas exchangeWFPICCSVideo
- Bronchiolitis (causes, pathophysiology, signs and symptoms, treatment)Armando HasudunganVideo
- When blood meets air: VQ matching & shunt mysteriesWFPICCSVideo
- PARDS: Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Ep05 | Peds Critical Care BoardsAPPNA Pediatrics Video
- Bronchiolitis - Paediatric Emergencies 2024Paediatric EmergenciesVideo
- Setting the Ventilator in pARDS: The First Six HoursWFPICCSVideo
Guidelines and evidence
- Impact of the francophone pediatric intensive care group bronchiolitis recommendations on diagnostic testing, antibiotic therapy and patient prognosis.Archives de Pédiatrie (Société française de pédiatrie) – study of GFRUP guidelines, 2026Guideline or evidence
- Consensus statement of the Paediatric Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy Section of the Polish Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy on the use of VV ECMO in paediatric patients for the treatment of acute respiratory failure.Polish Society of Anaesthesiology and Intensive Therapy (Paediatric Section), 2026Guideline or evidence
- Bronchiolitis in children: diagnosis and management (NICE guideline NG9)NICE, 2021Guideline or evidence
- Oxygen therapy for acute respiratory infections in young children in developing countriesWorld Health Organization, 1993Guideline or evidence
- Guideline on management of pneumonia and diarrhoea in children up to 10 years of ageWorld Health Organization, 2024Guideline or evidence
- Executive Summary of the Second International Guidelines for the Diagnosis and Management of Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome (PALICC-2).Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference (PALICC-2), 2023Guideline or evidence
- Combination of ipratropium bromide and salbutamol in children and adolescents with asthma: A meta-analysis.PLoS One, 2021Guideline or evidence
- Risk Factors for Poor Outcomes in Children Hospitalized With Virus-associated Acute Lower Respiratory Infections: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.The Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal, 2024Guideline or evidence
- Does intravenous sildenafil clinically ameliorate pulmonary hypertension during perioperative management of congenital heart diseases in children? - a prospective randomized study.Annals of Cardiac Anaesthesia, 2015Guideline or evidence
- COVID-19 PICU guidelines: for high- and limited-resource settings.International PICU COVID-19 Collaboration (Pediatric Research), 2020Guideline or evidence
- Turkish Neonatal Society guideline on the management of respiratory distress syndrome and surfactant treatment.Turkish Neonatal Society, 2018Guideline or evidence
- SEVERE PERTUSSIS IN CHILDHOOD: UPDATE AND CONTROVERSY - SYSTEMATIC REVIEW.Revista Paulista de Pediatria (Sociedade de Pediatria de São Paulo), 2019Guideline or evidence
- Neurally Adjusted Ventilatory Assist vs. Conventional Mechanical Ventilation in Adults and Children With Acute Respiratory Failure: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Frontiers in Medicine, 2022Guideline or evidence
- Pertussis infection in critically ill infants: meta-analysis and validation of a mortality score.Critical Care (London, England), 2025Guideline or evidence
- Management of severe asthma exacerbation: guidelines from the Société Française de Médecine d'Urgence, the Société de Réanimation de Langue Française and the French Group for Pediatric Intensive Care and Emergencies.SFMU/SRLF/GFRUP (French societies), 2019Guideline or evidence
- Clinical guidelines on pediatric asthma exacerbation in emergency department, a narrative review.European Journal of Translational Myology, 2020Guideline or evidence
- Spontaneous pneumomediastinum and subcutaneous emphysema as a complication of asthma in children: case report and literature review.Therapeutic Advances in Respiratory Disease, 2016Guideline or evidence
- Management of asthma exacerbations in the paediatric population: a systematic review.European Respiratory Review (European Respiratory Society), 2021Guideline or evidence
- Expert consensus on the diagnosis, treatment, and prevention of respiratory syncytial virus infections in children.World Journal of Pediatrics (multidisciplinary expert consensus group), 2024Guideline or evidence
- UPDATE - 2022 Italian guidelines on the management of bronchiolitis in infants.Italian Society of Pediatrics (Italian Journal of Pediatrics), 2023Guideline or evidence
- Inter-society consensus document on treatment and prevention of bronchiolitis in newborns and infants.Italian inter-society panel (Italian Journal of Pediatrics), 2014Guideline or evidence
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of the prevalence of common respiratory viruses in children < 2 years with bronchiolitis in the pre-COVID-19 pandemic era.PLoS One, 2020Guideline or evidence
- Efficacy and safety of high flow nasal oxygen for children with bronchiolitis: systematic review and meta-analysis.BMJ Open Respiratory Research, 2021Guideline or evidence
- SABRE: a multicentre randomised control trial of nebulised hypertonic saline in infants hospitalised with acute bronchiolitis.Thorax (SABRE trial investigators, UK), 2014Guideline or evidence
- Oxygen saturation targets in infants with bronchiolitis (BIDS): a double-blind, randomised, equivalence trial.Lancet (BIDS trial, NIHR HTA), 2015Guideline or evidence
- Association of Fluid Balance With Short- and Long-term Respiratory Outcomes in Extremely Premature Neonates: A Secondary Analysis of a Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA Network Open, 2022Guideline or evidence
- The role of viral co-infections in the severity of acute respiratory infections among children infected with respiratory syncytial virus (RSV): A systematic review and meta-analysis.Journal of Global Health, 2020Guideline or evidence
- Monoclonal Antibody for the Prevention of Respiratory Syncytial Virus in Infants and Children: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis.JAMA Network Open, 2023Guideline or evidence
- Changes in the global hospitalisation burden of respiratory syncytial virus in young children during the COVID-19 pandemic: a systematic analysis.The Lancet Infectious Diseases (PROMISE/WHO-funded collaboration), 2024Guideline or evidence
- Comparison of Prevalence and Outcomes of Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Using Pediatric Acute Lung Injury Consensus Conference Criteria and Berlin Definition.Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2018Guideline or evidence
- The perinatal period should be considered in neonatal acute respiratory distress syndrome: comparison of the Montreux definition vs. the second pediatric acute lung injury consensus conference definition.Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2023Guideline or evidence
- Randomised controlled trial of oxygen therapy and high-flow nasal therapy in African children with pneumonia.Intensive Care Medicine (COAST trial investigators), 2021Guideline or evidence
- Pediatric Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome Updates in the Light of the PALICC-2 Guidelines.Turkish Archives of Pediatrics, 2025Guideline or evidence
- Surfactant therapies for pediatric and neonatal ARDS: ESPNIC expert consensus opinion for future research steps.ESPNIC, 2021Guideline or evidence
- Thrombomodulin is associated with increased mortality and organ failure in mechanically ventilated children with acute respiratory failure: biomarker analysis from a multicenter randomized controlled trial.Critical Care (BioMed Central), 2021Guideline or evidence
- Safety and efficacy of pulmonary surfactant therapy for acute respiratory distress syndrome in children: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC Pulmonary Medicine, 2025Guideline or evidence
- High-Frequency Oscillation vs Mechanical Ventilation for Neonatal Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA Network Open, 2026Guideline or evidence
- Continuous Magnesium Sulfate Infusions for Status Asthmaticus in Children: A Systematic Review.Frontiers in Pediatrics, 2022Guideline or evidence