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. 2020 Jul 17;130(3):262–272. doi: 10.1177/0003489420941542

Table 1.

Details of Virtual Session, Including Presenter Locations, Content, and Times.

Topic Presenters Content and Skills
Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU)
1pm CT / 6pm GMT / 5am AEDT
• Chief of Neonatology (MD), Massachusetts, USA
• Head/Neck Surgeons, Boston and Florida, USA
• Nursing Director NICU, Florida, USA
• Multidisciplinary education
• Ex-utero intrapartum treatment
• Neonates with congenital and acquired upper airway obstruction
• Lower airway conditions
Pediatric decannulation
4pm CT / 9pm GMT / 8am AEDT
• Head/Neck Surgeon, Michigan, USA
• Nursing Clinical Care Coordinator, Michigan, USA
• Clinical readiness for decannulation
• Review capping protocol
• Describe the decannulation process
• Prepare child and family
• Post decannulation follow up
Adult decannulation
4pm CT / 9pm GMT / 8am AEDT
• Head/Neck Surgeons, London, UK; Baltimore, USA; Washington, USA
• Registered Nurse, Johns Hopkins, USA; Manchester, UK
• Speech Pathologist, Australia
• Indications and contraindications
• Practices as in- and out-patient
• Failure and success factors
• Role of multidisciplinary approach
• The patients’ role
• Post-decannulation education
Patient & family perspective
5pm CT / 10pm BST / 8am AEDT
• Patient and family members
• Chair of patient and family committee, GTC
• Head and Neck Surgeons, Wisconsin, USA; Boston, USA
• Incorporating patients and families
• Results of patient-family survey
• Strategies to increase patient engagement
• Opportunities with the GTC
Quality improvement initiatives
5pm CT / 10pm BST / 8am AEDT
• Intensive Care Consultant, Manchester, UK
• Head / Neck Surgeon, Manchester, UK
• Nurse, Manchester, UK
• Patients and family, UK
• QI at multiple levels: local department, hospital, national, international
• Patient perspective

Abbreviations: AEDT, Australian Eastern Daylight Time; CT, Central Time; GMT, Greenwich Mean Time; BST, British Summer time.