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Upcoming Webinars
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ICON Academy webinars have been offered at no cost through a partnership with Dräger Medical, which will conclude on April 30, 2026.
Beginning May 1, 2026, ICON Academy’s AARC-accredited webinars will be available to ALL respiratory care professionals for a registration fee of $10 US per webinar per person.
The registration fee is nonrefundable and nontransferable. You MUST attend the live webinar to receive your CEU.
You may still watch in a group, and only one person would need to log into the webinar, but each person desiring a CEU credit must sign up and pay the registration fee before the start of the webinar.
To receive the CEU, the process is similar to currently claiming a CEU:
- A "CEU Code" (confirmation code) will be displayed at the end of the webinar
- Each person who has registered must go to the ICON website and log in
- Enter the confirmation code on the Academy Registration page
- Fill out the questionnaire
- Download the Certificate (optional; we send AARC notifications at the end of each month of completed CEUs.)
Spring Respiratory Care Week 2026
A Paradigm Shift in Protective Mechanical Ventilation: A Stabilize and Gradual Recruit Approach
- Date: May 18, 2026 12:00 PM Eastern
- Speaker: Gary Nieman Professor of Research
The lecture will discuss a novel concept of protective mechanical ventilation for the ARDS patient. Using the components of both airway pressure and the time it is applied during inspiration and expiration to first stabilize the lung and then gradually reopen over hours or days.
Objectives
- List the evidence for the failure of the current low tidal volume strategy to further reduce ARDS-related mortality
- Describe how the mechanical breath pressure/time profile (P/Tp), consisting of both inspiration and expiratory time and pressure, can be used to prevent alveolar recruitment/derecruitment and progressively recruit collapsed lung tissue
- Discuss the mechanisms of VILI in the micro-environment and how our novel P/Tp eliminates these mechanisms and improves ARDS-related outcomes
Contact Hours: 1
AARC, ANCC, CaBon
Waveform Graphics 101
- Date: May 19, 2026 12:00 PM Eastern
- Speaker: Maria Madden MS, RRT-ACCS
The integration of ventilator graphics into the machine platforms has opened new vistas into the observation and evaluation of the interface between the patient and the mechanical ventilator. In the past, a pressure manometer and numeric readings gave us a limited view of the patient-ventilator interface. Now ventilator graphics allow us to see, in real-time the full interface between the patient and the ventilator.
Objectives
- Recognize the importance of patient-ventilator asynchrony using Waveform Analysis
- Will cover the basic concepts in mechanical ventilation concepts and explore the graphics, as seen in volume control ventilation
Contact Hours: 1
AARC, ANCC, CaBon
APRV (Adult Acute Care)
- Date: May 20, 2026 12:00 PM Eastern
- Speaker: Maria Madden MS, RRT-ACCS
Airway pressure release ventilation (APRV) is a ventilator mode that has previously been considered a rescue mode but has gained acceptance as a primary mode of ventilation. In clinical series and experimental animal models of extrapulmonary acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS), the early application of APRV was able to prevent the development of ARDS.
Objectives
- Review the APRV-TCAV Settings
- Review the literature and rationale to support TCAV method
Contact Hours: 1
AARC, ANCC, CaBon
APRV Use in Asthma and COPD
- Date: May 21, 2026 12:00 PM Eastern
- Speaker: Joseph Shiber, MD, FNCS, FCCM
Utilizing cases managed by our ECLS/Acute Lung Service at UF-Jax to illustrate the principles of applying APRV in status asthmaticus and severe COPD, the physiologic rationale will be presented. Supporting published literature will be discussed.
Objectives
- Understand the pathophysiology of acute asthma and COPD in terms of lung volumes and ventilation
- Identify how applying APRV can reduce lung over inflation and dead space ventilation
- Appreciate the abnormal findings of status asthmaticus on chest radiograph and recognize the resolution
Contact Hours: 1
AARC, ANCC, CaBon
Critical Care Respiratory Assessment: Evaluating the Patient, the Ventilator, and Everything In Between
- Date: May 22, 2026 12:00 PM Eastern
- Speaker: Maria Madden MS, RRT-ACCS
To enhance clinicians’ understanding of advanced ventilatory parameters and waveform-derived indices—such as P0.1, stress index, and C20/C—by linking physiologic principles to bedside interpretation, with the goal of improving patient-ventilator synchrony, optimizing lung protection, and guiding evidence-based respiratory management.
Objectives
- Explain the physiologic basis of key ventilator-derived measurements, including P0.1, stress index, and C20/C
- Discuss key research findings related to various ventilator parameters and translate this evidence into practical bedside decision-making.
Contact Hours: 1
AARC, ANCC, CaBon
*ICON reserves the right to change speakers or cancel presentations as needed.
System Requirements
As of March 2021, we are using the Zoom service to host our webinars. Please test your computer or mobile device for connectivity.
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For Microsoft® Windows 7® SP1, Windows 8.x®, Windows 10®
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- Edge 12 or higher
- Firefox 27 or higher
- Chrome 30 or higher
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For Mac OS X v10.9 or higher
- Chrome 30 or higher
- Safari 7 or higher
- Firefox 27 or higher
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For *NIX based OSs (recommend distributions: RHEL 6.4 or higher, OpenSUSE 13.2 or higher, Ubuntu 10 or later, Solaris 10)
- Chrome 30 or higher
- Firefox 27 or higher
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For iOS mobile devices (iPhones--iOS 8.0 or later, iPads--iPadOS 13 or later, etc.)
- Safari 5 or higher
- Chrome
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For Android mobile devices (phones, tablets, etc.)
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