14–17 April 2027 · Tübingen, Germany

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APIP 2027 Advanced Pediatric Interventional Pulmonology
The main course

Curriculum

The interventional range, end to end. This is the breadth that makes APIP unusual: no other course covers the pediatric airway across all of these techniques in one programme.

01

Thermal & Mechanical Interventions

The techniques that open an obstructed pediatric airway, hot and cold, and the judgement of which to reach for.

Cold procedures
Advanced cryotherapy and cryo-extraction.
Hot procedures
Argon plasma coagulation, electrocautery and high-frequency applications.
Balloon dilatation
Precision management of subglottic and tracheal stenosis.
Foreign body removal
Rigid and flexible technique for complex cases.

02

Advanced Structural Management

Where the airway needs holding open, closing off, or rebuilding — the interventions that change its architecture.

Stent implantation
Selection and placement of metallic and silicone frameworks.
Valve implantation
Bronchoscopic lung volume reduction in children.
Combined endoscopy of fistula
Multidisciplinary approaches to tracheoesophageal repair.

03

Diagnostic & Rigid Mastery

Seeing clearly before intervening, and the rigid technique that underwrites everything else.

Radial & linear ultrasound
Precision staging and biopsy guidance.
Tissue acquisition
Endobronchial and transbronchial biopsy, including transbronchial lung cryobiopsy.
Rigid bronchoscopy
Extensive hands-on time with the standard of pediatric airway control.
Imaging
Pediatric imaging read specifically for interventional planning.
How it is taught

Models, small groups, and time at the station

Every technique in this curriculum is taught with the equipment in your hands. Participants rotate through hands-on stations in small groups, working on models and simulators, with faculty who perform these procedures in children rather than adapting adult practice to them.

Lectures are kept short and tied to the stations they precede: indication and patient selection, the equipment itself, and what to do when a procedure does not go the way it was planned.

Also covered

  • Anaesthesia and the shared airway
  • Equipment selection for small airways
  • Recognising and managing complications
  • Case discussion with the faculty

The definitive station list is published with the full programme.

14–17 Apr 2027 · Tübingen

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