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Fall Respiratory Care Week 2023
"Dead is Dead" - Brain Death Evaluation (Ethics)
- Date: Oct 23, 2023 10:00 AM Eastern
- Speaker: Maria Madden MS, RRT-ACCS
This presentation will review the purpose and the updated guidelines of the Brain Death Guidelines per the American Academy of Neurology (AAN). We will also review several controversial cases. The presentation will review the important role of respiratory therapists.
Objectives
- Discuss the role of a respiratory therapist in brain death evaluation
- Review the AAN Brain Death Guidelines
- Review the controversies with Brain Death Evaluations
Contact Hours: 1
FREE for members.
AARC, ANCC, CaBon
The Evidence for the Strategies & Adjuncts for ARDS (Adult Acute Care)
- Date: Oct 23, 2023 12:00 PM Eastern
- Speaker: Joseph Shiber, MD, FNCS, FCCM
I will present the literature supporting or refuting potential therapies for the rescue, as well as more importantly, the prevention of ARDS. Actual cases from my recent clinical interactions will also be used to help illustrate certain concepts.
Objectives
- Understand the mechanical forces responsible for the pregression of Acute Lung Injury towards higher severities of ARDS
- Discuss the published literature supporting or refuting the effectiveness of MV strategies and adjuncts (steroids, inhaled vasodilators, proning, paralytics, HFOV, PLV) for the resuce of severe hypoxemia
- Identify MV and adjunctive strategies that may halt or even prevent the development of ALI/ARDS
Contact Hours: 1
FREE for members.
AARC, ANCC, CaBon
ALS - Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Clinical Practice)
- Date: Oct 23, 2023 3:00 PM Eastern
- Speaker: Cheryl Bausch Skinner MSc, RRT, AE-C, CPFT
Contact Hours: 1
FREE for members.
AARC, ANCC, CaBon
Stress and Burnout for Respiratory Therapists (Ethics)
- Date: Oct 24, 2023 8:00 AM Eastern
- Speaker: Katlyn Burr RRT-NPS, AE-C
Review and understand stress and burnout definitions, prevalence, and association with respiratory care.
Objectives
- Define stress, burnout, and associated conditions
- Understand the prevalence of these conditions within healthcare and the field of respiratory care
- Review coping strategies for high stress and burnout
Contact Hours: 1
FREE for members.
AARC, ANCC, CaBon
It's your Favorite Ventilator Graphics! (Clinical Practice)
- Date: Oct 24, 2023 12:00 PM Eastern
- Speaker: Kelly Massa, BHS, RRT-NPS
Provide a review for participants of ventilator modes, breath types, and graphic interpretation. Also, include some ventilator troubleshooting to optimize positive pressure ventilation.
Objectives
- Participant will have a better understanding of Flow/Volume and Pressure/volume loops with interpretation
- Participant will have a better understanding of time scalars and vent graphic interpretation to optimize ventilation
- Participant will have a better understanding of time scalars and vent graphic interpretation to optimize ventilation
Contact Hours: 1
FREE for members.
AARC, ANCC, CaBon
RSV Management Evolution: Are we there yet? (Neonatal-Practice)
- Date: Oct 24, 2023 3:00 PM Eastern
- Speaker: Kim Smith, RT
This webinar will discuss the prevalence of RSV. It will also cover treatments and look a the literature for or against certain treatment strategies
Objectives
- Review epidemiology, pathophysiology, and clinical presentation of Respiratory Syncytial Virus
- Examine treatment evolution stratergies of RSV
- Review current literature related to clinical outcomes
Contact Hours: 1
FREE for members.
AARC, ANCC, CaBon
The Past, Present and Future of Diaphragm Pacing (Clinical Practice)
- Date: Oct 25, 2023 7:00 AM Eastern
- Speaker: Maria Madden MS, RRT-ACCS
Contact Hours: 1
FREE for members.
AARC, ANCC, CaBon
First Stabilize and then Gradually Recruit: A Paradigm Shift in Protective Mechanical Ventilation for Acute Lung Injury (Adult Acute Care)
- Date: Oct 25, 2023 12:00 PM Eastern
- Speaker: Gary Nieman Professor of Research
There are two current protective ventilation strategies for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome ARDS 1) The Low Tidal Volume Protects the Lung Approach designed to prevent overdistension of normal tissue, and 2) The Open Lung Approach designed to rapidly recruit (seconds or minutes) all of the collapsed tissue. Unfortunately, these strategies have not reduced ARDS-related mortality. This lecture will discuss a novel Stabilize the Lung Approach designed to stabilize the lung rapidly, minimizing atelectrauma and loss of end-expiratory lung volume (EELV) and then gradually reopen (hours or days) the collapsed tissue. Stabilizing the Lung Approach would be a paradigm shift in the protective mechanical ventilation of the patient with ARDS.
Objectives
- There are two current protective ventilation strategies for patients with acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS)
- Identify the mechanisms of VILI in the microenvironment
- Discuss the combination of components comprising the Mechanical Breath Profile (MBp) that consist of all airway pressures, volumes, flows, rates, and the TIME that they are applied during inspiration and expiration, necessary to minimize VILI
Contact Hours: 1
FREE for members.
AARC, ANCC, CaBon
The Respiratory Care of SCI Patient (Adult Acute Care)
- Date: Oct 25, 2023 3:00 PM Eastern
- Speaker: Maria Madden MS, RRT-ACCS
Spinal cord injuries (SCIs) have an incidence of approximately 12, 000 new cases per year, primarily among young adults, resulting in significant disability and healthcare costs. Many of these injuries, depending on their level, will impact the pulmonary system to some degree. A subset of persons with SCI will require chronic mechanical ventilation and the attendant complications such as pneumonia, diaphragm disuse syndrome, and inability to liberate from the ventilator. This presentation will focus on the mechanism of injury, pulmonary dysfunction, and ventilatory strategies and adjuncts for improving patient outcomes. The target audience is all healthcare providers involved in the acute or chronic care of spinal cord-injured patients.
Objectives
- Discuss mechanical ventilation and diaphragm pacing system
- Discuss various secretion clearance modalities and therapies
- Review the physiological changes that effect the respiratory system with a spinal cord injury
Contact Hours: 1
FREE for members.
AARC, ANCC, CaBon
APRV in the NICU (Neonatal-Pediatric)
- Date: Oct 26, 2023 8:00 AM Eastern
- Speaker: Michael Jenniges RRT-NPS
A retrospective review of 3 case studies involving the use of APRV in the NICU, utilizing the TCAV method. In addition, the effective use of the Auot-Release feature on the Draeger Ventilator in conjunction with APRV.
Objectives
- Understand how the Auto-Release facilitates a passive return to FRC and thus promotes effective ventilation
- Understand the "Open Lung concept" and how it promotes protective lung ventilation
- Understand the importance of time in reference to APRV and it's ability to maintain consistent mean airway pressures to promote oxygenation
Contact Hours: 1
FREE for members.
AARC, ANCC, CaBon
Weaning in the Brain Injury (Clinical Practice)
- Date: Oct 26, 2023 12:00 PM Eastern
- Speaker: Gail Drescher, MA, RRT, CTTS
Contact Hours: 1
FREE for members.
AARC, ANCC, CaBon
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy (Clinical Practice)
- Date: Oct 27, 2023 7:00 AM Eastern
- Speaker: Martin Koehnlein MHA, RRT-NPS, ACCS, RPFT, CCT
An Introduction to Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy. How does HBO2 work? Indications/Contraindications of HBO2
Objectives
- The participant will be able to describe how HBO2 works
- The participant will be able to explain related gas law physics of HBO2
- The participant will be able to explain the benefits and indications of HBO2
Contact Hours: 1
FREE for members.
AARC, ANCC, CaBon
Esophageal Manometry (Adult Acute Care)
- Date: Oct 27, 2023 12:00 PM Eastern
- Speaker: Rena Laliberte, BSRT
This lecture focuses on the introduction and clinical applications of esophageal manometry and transpulmonary pressure.
Objectives
- Introduce Esophageal Manometry and Transpulmonary Pressure
- Discuss potential benefits of monitoring Transpulmonary Pres
- Review the clinical applications of Esophageal Manometry and Transpulmonary pressure measurement for mechanically ventilated patients.
Contact Hours: 1
FREE for members.
AARC, ANCC, CaBon
*ICON reserves the right to change speakers or cancel presentations as needed.
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