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Tuesday, November 19, 2013

 

8:30 am–9:00 am

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Animation and Interactive Technology to Teach Mechanical Ventilation

Ken Tegtmeyer MD FCCM, Cincinnati OH

S193

Content Category: Neonatal/Pediatric
Forget PowerPoint… this presentation will reveal novel 3D technology and cutting-edge animation to augment mechanical ventilation education for the bedside clinician. Whether you are an expert or not, this talk will offer a very unique perspective on respiratory education.

 

8:30 am–9:00 am

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National Competitive Bidding: Impact of Round 2 Implementation

Greg Spratt BS RRT CPFT, Philadelphia MO

S194

Content Category: Management
National competitive bidding (NCB) is a reality and Round 2, which impacts 91 additional markets, is underway. Combined with Round 1, NCB now affects nearly 70% of Medicare beneficiaries and thousands of HME providers. This lecture examines the potential and real ramifications of NCB.

 

8:30 am–9:00 am

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Value-based Staffing

Richard M Ford RRT FAARC, San Diego CA

S195

Content Category: Management
Whether you are a new or seasoned leader, you need the tools and resources to apply statistically valid time standards to justify staff. We know that not all positions in the respiratory care department produce "units of service." So what do you do when you have a critical role in your department and cannot rely on units of service to justify the position? Come to this presentation to find out.

 

9:00 am–10:55 am

 

Open Forum #18 - Management - Part 2

Researchers will present the results of their scientific studies. Abstracts with a similar focus are clustered into their own OPEN FORUM symposium to encourage discussion and interaction among investigators and observers. Posters are used to expand the information presented. The titles and authors of all abstracts will be posted by Aug 31.

 

9:00 am–10:55 am

 

Open Forum #19 - Neonatal/Pediatrics - Part 3

Researchers will present the results of their scientific studies. Abstracts with a similar focus are clustered into their own OPEN FORUM symposium to encourage discussion and interaction among investigators and observers. Posters are used to expand the information presented. The titles and authors of all abstracts will be posted by Aug 31.

 

9:05 am–9:35 am

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Adult ARDS Network Data: Applicable To Children?

Carl R Hinkson RRT FAARC, Seattle WA

S215

Content Category: Clinical Practice
Content Category: Neonatal/Pediatric
Lung protective ventilation using low tidal volumes and high PEEP is commonly used in adults with ARDS. Despite compelling adult evidence and laboratory studies, clinical data in children remain lacking. Should these adult-based lung protective approaches be used by clinicians caring for children with acute lung injury? This presentation will review the available data and suggestions for the management of the pediatric patient.

 

9:05 am–9:35 am

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Using Pulmonary Rehabilitation To Prevent 30-day Readmission

Trina M Limberg RRT FAARC FAACVPR, San Diego CA

S216

Content Category: Clinical Practice
Content Category: Clinical Practice
One of the keys to reducing 30-day readmission rates for patients with chronic lung disease is enrollment in a robust PR program. This presentation will share best practices for optimizing referrals into the outpatient program after discharge from an acute care setting.

 

9:05 am–9:35 am

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Priority One- Value for Our Patients

Richard M Ford RRT FAARC, San Diego CA

S217

Content Category: Clinical Practice
Content Category: Management
As health care reform is intended to drive down expenses while incentivizing hospitals to produce favorable outcomes, we may lose sight of ensuring value to patients. What's important to patients is safe care; and what's important to the executives is delivering this care effectively and efficiently.

 

9:40 am–10:10 am

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Assisting with Clinical Trials - What's Expected from Your Lab?

Matthew J O'Brien MS RRT RPFT, Madison WI

S218

Content Category: Clinical Practice
Content Category: Pulmonary Function
Assisting with clinical trials is sometimes not presented as optional for pulmonary labs. Learn the typical requirements / expectations sponsors have when evaluating your site and how meeting these expectations will improve your lab's overall quality.

 

9:40 am–10:10 am

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Adding Insult To Injury - Dementia and ALS

Lee Guion MA RRT FAARC, San Francisco CA

S219

Content Category: Clinical Practice
Content Category: Clinical Practice
Not only do people with ALS eventually lose all muscle function, the mind can be affected as well. Find out how to assess your patients for cognitive changes. Explore the implications for lung function testing, assisted ventilation, and end-of-life decision-making.

 

9:40 am–10:10 am

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Practicing the Art of Getting the Orders Your Patient Needs

Robin Kidder RRT AE-C, St Louis MO

S220

Content Category: Clinical Practice
Content Category: Education
How many times have you thought to yourself: Why is this therapy ordered? Have you or your peers recommended a treatment option for a patient without being heard? Ever notice some RCPs are more successful than others at receiving the physician orders needed for their patient? Would you like to reduce the amount of unneeded therapy by simply communicating your rationale in a way that will be heard? If so, this interactive workshop is for you! The presenter will provide an overview of the techniques and tools needed for successful interaction and will engage the attendees in examples of typical RCP/MD scenarios.

 

9:40 am–10:10 am

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The Role of the RT: a Look Into the Future

Timothy R Myers MBA RRT-NPS FAARC, Irving TX

S221

Content Category: Clinical Practice
Content Category: Management
This presentation discusses the changes in the RT's role in the future: the movement of positions outside the acute care facility and the value it adds to the patient.

 

10:15 am–10:45 am

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Race Roulette: How to Pick the Winning Numbers for Your Patients

Ralph W Stumbo Jr RRT CPFT, Tacoma WA

S224

Content Category: Clinical Practice
Content Category: Pulmonary Function
Selecting the right set of predicted numbers can mean the difference between normal and abnormal PFT results, leading ultimately to the decision to treat or not to treat. What are the recommendations regarding race correction for lung function testing and does this make sense? What do we do in the case of a patient of mixed race? This presentation will help you be prepared to care for all your patients regardless of race.

 

10:15 am–10:45 am

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Educating COPD Patients So They Really "Get It"

Jane M Martin LRT CRT, Miami FL

S225

Content Category: Clinical Practice
Content Category: Education
Educating COPD patients can be challenging - even frustrating. But it doesn't always have to be that way. This session will discuss "the bridge" and how keeping it in mind when you teach will help you master simple methods that make a big impact in helping patients "get it," remember it, and use it.

 

10:15 am–10:45 am

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COPD Transitions Coach: Serving COPD Patients from Hospital to Home

Robert B Sobkowiak RRT AE-C, Cape Coral FL

S226

Content Category: Clinical Practice
Content Category: Clinical Practice
The COPD Care Transitions Coach bridges care gaps for the COPD patient being discharged from the acute care setting to home. This therapist, in collaboration with other healthcare team members, follows the patient into the home and assists the patient in learning and practicing effective self-management skills. The presenter will share successful outcome measures including improved patient satisfaction and quality of life as well as decreased 30-day readmissions. The goal of a patient-centered COPD journey is able to be reached through this new and exciting role for the respiratory therapist who has a passion to serve the COPD Community.

 

10:15 am–10:45 am

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Teamwork As a Key Survival Strategy

Ken Thigpen RRT FAARC, Jackson MS

S227

Content Category: Clinical Practice
Content Category: Management
In today's rapidly changing health care landscape, working effectively together as a team has never been more critical to the success of an organization, a department, and the respiratory therapist! A high-performing team can position work groups to not only survive but actually thrive as visible and valued members of the health care team. Attend this lecture and gather the tools necessary to be a team player.

 

10:50 am–11:20 am

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There's Fungus Among Us: When Mold Impactss Our Lives

Ralph W Stumbo Jr RRT CPFT, Tacoma WA

S230

Content Category: Pulmonary Function
While mold is an everyday part of our lives, seldom does it impact our lives. Given the recent flooding issues in the Northeast, there are tens of thousands of homes that have had major water damage. If not rehabilitated properly, these homes can become infested with mold and greatly impact the lives of those living there. This lecture will address the scope of the problem, the warning signs to look for, and treatment of those affected by uncontrolled mold.

 

10:50 am–11:20 am

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The "Aha" Moment - Enabling Patients to Discover COPD Self-Management

Jane M Martin LRT CRT, Miami FL

S231

Content Category: Education
The COPD Conversation Map is a patient-centered learning tool using colorful images and metaphors combined with small group interaction. Participation leads individuals with COPD to discover for themselves methods of effective COPD management and arrive at a personal plan for lasting change. Attend this lecture and learn more about this great educational resource… your patients will be glad you did!

 

10:50 am–11:20 am

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It's Just a Little Cough...or Is It?

Elizabeth Cooper BHS RRT, Cincinnati OH

S232

Content Category: Neonatal/Pediatric
Chronic coughing in the pediatric patient may be meaningless or a symptom of serious disease. This presentation will explore the various etiologies for chronic cough and will offer potential treatment approaches.

 

10:50 am–11:20 am

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Migrating from Acute Care to Pulmonary Rehabilitation Case Manager: What Does It Take?

Arianna Villa RRT, San Diego CA

S233

Content Category: Clinical Practice
The Affordable Care Act is shifting our focus to managing COPD and other chronic respiratory-impaired patients in the outpatient phase. This is an opportunity for therapists working in pulmonary rehabilitation programs to enhance their acute care assessment skills. Attend this session to learn how to expand your skills and what it's going to take to be successful in the new health care environment.

 

10:50 am–11:20 am

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Respiratory Care 2013 and Beyond - Catch the Wave!

Ken Thigpen RRT FAARC, Jackson MS

S234

Content Category: Management
This presentation will highlight the challenges we face as a profession, as a health care industry, and as individuals. This presenter will examine the impact of being proactive versus the consequences of being reactive or inactive. We will examine how teamwork and flexibility are key attributes to effectively "surfing" the waves of health care versus "wiping out" if we fail to respond.

 

8:30 am–9:00 am

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Benchmarking in Neonatal/Pediatric Transport: Do You Meet Th

Kendra Paxton MSN RN CPNP EMT-B CMTE, Akron OH

S196

Content Category: Clinical Practice
This presentation will describe the 23 quality metrics the Ohio Children's Hospital Transport Quality Collaborative benchmark against. The metrics discussed encompass all six of the Institute of Medicine's Domains of Quality: effectiveness, efficiency, safety, family-patient centeredness, timeliness, and equity. The presenter will share how using this data can drive best practices across the country.

 

9:05 am–9:35 am

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Improving Quality in Neonatal & Pediatric Transports

Kendra Paxton MSN RN CPNP EMT-B CMTE

S197

Content Category: Clinical Practice
Historically, transport teams have tracked QI measures without knowing how they compare to other similar organizations. Typically, organizations with transport teams are seen as competitors, rather than collaborators. This presenter will review the process six Children's Hospitals followed to determine quality metrics for neonatal pediatric transport within the state of Ohio.

 

8:30 pm–9:35 pm

 

Overview: Ohio's Quality Collaborative Initiative for Neonatal and Pediatric Interfacility Transport

 

8:30 am–9:00 am

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Upcoming Changes to the Credentialing System: The New Therapist Multiple-Choice Examination

Robert C Shaw PhD RRT FAARC, NBRC Assistant Executive Director and Psychometrician

S198

Content Category: Education
The NBRC Board of Trustees has approved significant changes to the credentialing system. Attend this session and hear the rationale as well as the implementation and specific changes that will occur.

 

9:05 am–9:35 am

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The Value of the Clinical Simulation To the RRT Credential

Robert C Shaw PhD RRT FAARC, NBRC Assistant Executive Director and Psychometrician

S199

Content Category: Education
NBRC representatives will explain the impact that the changes to the combined written exam will have on the RRT Clinical Simulation. Emphasis will be made on the value of the clinical simulation component of the RRT credential.

 

8:30 pm–9:35 pm

 

NBRC Symposium

 

8:30 am–9:00 am

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Understanding the New Multidimensional GOLD Guidelines

Brian W Carlin MD FAARC, Pittsburgh PA

S200

Content Category: Clinical Practice
This lecture will give an overall understanding of the 2011 revision of the GOLD classifications and implications for discharge, home care, and pulmonary rehabilitation.

 

9:05 am–9:35 am

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Implementing Respiratory Risk Criteria into Hospital Discharge Planning

Becky K Anderson RRT, Fargo ND

S201

Content Category: Clinical Practice
Including respiratory risk criteria in hospital discharge planning is integral to the transition of care, thus impacting re-hospitalization rates. Attend this lecture and learn how innovative tools and protocols have improved respiratory readmission rates.

 

9:40 am–10:10 am

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Creating Value for Home Respiratory Services by Developing an RT Competency Program

Kim S Wiles RRT, Ford City PA

S202

Content Category: Clinical Practice
This presentation will cover the COPD certification program in the context of developing an RT competency program. Highlighted will be how integrating post-acute care focused education and patient performance criteria into RT competencies can contribute to a successful transition of care program.

 

8:30 pm–10:10 pm

 

Creating Transition of Care Alignment From Discharge To Home

 

8:30 am–9:00 am

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Addressing End-of-Life At the Beginning-of-Life

Marlin Mills MD, Newport Beach CA

S203

Content Category: Ethics and Law
This presentation will provide an overview of palliative care in the neonatal population.

 

9:05 am–9:35 am

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Pediatric Palliative Care: When Children Hurt

Ken Tegtmeyer MD FCCM, Cincinnati OH

S204

Content Category: Ethics and Law
This presentation will provide an overview of palliative care in the pediatric population.

 

9:40 am–10:10 am

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Palliative Care in Long-term Acute Care Hospitals (LTACs)

Mary K Hart MS RRT AE-C FAARC, San Antonio TX

S205

Content Category: Clinical Practice
This presentation will focus on palliative care in long-term acute care hospitals.

 

10:15 am–10:45 am

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When the Family Says To Do Everything

Paul A Selecky MD FAARC FAASM FACP FCCP, Newport Beach CA

S206

Content Category: Clinical Practice
Facing the approaching end of life for a loved one is difficult, and families frequently are not ready to let go. This presentation will include helpful advice on how to respond to the request to "do everything" at the end of life.

 

10:50 am–11:20 am

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What's the Evidence for Palliative Care?

Helen M Sorenson MA RRT FAARC, San Antonio TX

S207

Content Category: Ethics and Law
Palliative care has been gaining a lot of attention. This presentation will review the evidence for the use of palliative care and describe the beneficial effects before and during end of life.

 

8:30 pm–11:20 pm

 

Palliative Care Symposium: a Life Span Approach

 

8:30 am–9:00 am

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What's in the Journal This Month? How Can the Clinician, Manager, and Educator Get the Most from Their Journal? - Part I

Dean R Hess PhD RRT FAARC, Boston MA

S208

Content Category: Clinical Practice
There has been an exponential growth in both the number and quality of papers published in RESPIRATORY CARE over the past five years. In 2013, the Journal fully implemented a new website to make the Journal contents more accessible to readers. This presentation will provide a detailed tour of the new website, with suggestions from the editor about how respiratory therapists can optimize their use of all that the Journal has to offer. Bring your laptop, smart phone, and iPad to take full advantage of this session.

 

9:05 am–9:35 am

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What's in the Journal This Month? How Can the Clinician, Manager, and Educator Get the Most from Their Journal? - Part II

Dean R Hess PhD RRT FAARC

S209

Content Category: Clinical Practice
There has been an exponential growth in both the number and quality of papers published in RESPIRATORY CARE over the past 5 years. In 2013, the Journal fully implemented a new website to make the Journal contents more accessible to readers. This presentation will provide a detailed tour of the new website, with suggestions from the editor about how respiratory therapists can optimize their use of all that the Journal has to offer. Bring your laptop, smart phone, and iPad to take full advantage of this session.

 

9:40 am–10:10 am

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The 5 Best Original Research Papers Published in RESPIRATORY CARE in 2013

Richard D Branson MSc RRT FAARC, Cincinnati OH

S210

Content Category: Clinical Practice
An overview of the 5 best research papers published in RESPIRATORY CARE in 2012.

 

10:15 am–10:45 am

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The 5 Best Case Reports Publsihed by RESPIRATORY CARE in 2013

Dean R Hess PhD RRT FAARC

S211

Content Category: Clinical Practice
An overview of the 5 best case reports published in RESPIRATORY CARE in 2012.

 

10:50 am–11:20 am

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Artificial Airways and Airway Adjuncts: Summary of the 52nd RESPIRATORY CARE Journal Conference

Charles G Durbin Jr MD FAARC, Charlottesville VA

S212

Content Category: Adult Critical Care
An overview of the RESPIRATORY CARE Journal Conference on airway management.

 

8:30 pm–11:20 pm

 

RESPIRATORY CARE Symposium

 

9:40 am–10:10 am

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Noninvasive Respiratory Support for the Very Low Birth Weight Infant: How Low Can We Go?

Robert M DiBlasi RRT-NPS FAARC, Seattle WA

S222

Content Category: Clinical Practice
Content Category: Neonatal/Pediatric
Noninvasive ventilation of the premature infant is advancing as fast as any other field in pediatrics. But, how low can we go? This presentation will review the history of neonatal noninvasive ventilation as well as recent technologic advances. Management strategies to prevent prematurity-related chronic lung disease and thoughts for the future will be offered.

 

10:15 am–10:45 am

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Noninvasive Ventilation in Pediatrics: Turning the Corner?

Nancy A Johnson RRT-NPS, Cleveland OH

S223

Content Category: Clinical Practice
Content Category: Neonatal/Pediatric
Traditionally, advances in noninvasive ventilation technology have been focused on the neonatal and adult populations. This trend may finally be changing. This presentation will discuss clinical challenges of noninvasive ventilation for children as well as the recent advances in interface design and technology. Keep in mind, "one size does not fit all."

 

9:40 pm–10:45 pm

 

Noninvasive Ventilation

 

10:15 am–10:45 am

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New Grad Perspective

Christine Kearney RRT, Seattle WA

S228

Content Category: Clinical Practice
Content Category: Management
What does it take to successfully advance from "new grad" to established respiratory therapist? Administrators and educators often teach this topic; but in this novel presentation, a recent grad shares what it takes to be successful at the next level. The presenter will share her most recent experiences and perspective on the subject, and discuss both the do's and do not's of a new grad.

 

10:50 am–11:20 am

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Medical Director Perspective

Ira M Cheifetz MD FCCM FAARC, Durham NC

S229

Content Category: Clinical Practice
Content Category: Management
This presentation will be a continuation discussion of what it takes to successfully advance from new grad to established respiratory therapist. Come listen to advice from the perspective of a medical director. Both do's and do not's will be presented and discussed.

 

10:15 pm–11:20 pm

 

Getting Beyond New Grad Status