Session |
Presenter |
28th Phil Kittredge Memorial Lecture - Thinking Outside the Box: Moving the Profession Beyond the Hospital Walls |
Timothy Myers |
38th Donald F Egan Scientific Memorial Lecture - Behind a Mask: Tricks, Pitfalls and Prejudices for Noninvasive Ventilation - "You Are Wearing a Mask and You Look Better that Way" Iggy Pop (the Mask) |
Stefano Nava |
A Clinician's Guide to Individualizing the Ventilator Prescription |
David Wheeler |
A Unique Inside Look into the Life of a CF Patient: From the Patient and RRT Perspective |
Jeremy Parks |
AARC Uniform Reporting Manual |
Bill Dubbs |
Accreditation and Credentialing Pathways for Sleep Specialists |
Thomas Smalling |
Addressing End-of-Life Care in Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program |
Mary Hart |
Adult Mechanical Ventilation in Acute Care: Summary of the Respiratory Care journal Conference |
Richard Kallet |
Adult Patients |
Ronda Bradley |
Advances in COPD Research |
James Crapo |
After "Fat Tuesday" |
Suzan Herzig |
Airway Clearance: Is It Worth the Effort? |
Kathleen Deakins |
Airway Graphics |
Rory Mulling |
Airway Mechanics |
Michael Gentile |
Airway Resistance Measurments Using Body Plethysmography - Gold Standard or Old Standard |
Gregg Ruppel |
Allocating Resources through Creative Scheduling |
Jan Phillips-Clar |
Alpha-1 Antitrypsin Deficiency: Inherited But No Less Serious |
James Stoller |
Alternative Aerosol Therapy |
Brian Walsh |
Alternative Airway Challenge Methods: Isocapnic Voluntary Hyperventilation and Cold Air |
Ralph Stumbo Jr |
Alternative NIV Modes: Ready for Primetime or Not? |
Brian Walsh |
Alternatives to Inhaled Nitric Oxide |
Rory Mullin |
Are Neuromuscular Blockers Helpful in ARDS? |
William Hurford |
Are New Ventilator Modes Lung Protective? |
Robert Kacmarek |
Are We Harming Normal Lungs with Conventional Ventilator Settings? |
Charles Durbin Jr |
Are We Ventilating People to Death? |
Dan Davis |
Assessing the Cause of Dyspnea in the Teenager: There's a Test for That |
Matthew O'Brien |
Assessment Exercise, Safety and Adjuncts to Care |
Chris Garvey |
Asthma: Current Evidence for Emergency Department Management |
Dana Evans |
Be Seen, Not Overlooked: 10 Value-Added Ideas to Show Your Worth |
Suzan Herzig |
Becoming a Professional in Respiratory Care |
Toni Rodriguez |
Breath Hydrogen Testing - Is This a Diagnostic Test Our Lab Should Offer? |
Matthew O'Brien |
Cardiovascular Consequences of Obstructive Sleep Apnea |
Amado X Freire |
Challenges in Medical Transport: Capnography |
Wade Scoles |
Challenges in Medical Transport: Ventilation |
Wade Scoles |
Chronic Critical Illness Syndrome and the Long-Term Acute Care RT |
Ralph Orange |
Chronic Sleep Deprivation: All in the Family |
Paul Selecky |
Circulatory Support: Not Just for Adults Anymore! |
George Ofori-Amanfo |
Closed-loop LTOT: A New Era or a Passing Fad? |
Stefano Nava |
Coaching for Improved Work Performance |
Scott Reistad |
Competency Assessment for Sleep Personnel |
Sheri Tooley |
Competency-based Standards for Respiratory Care Education |
Thomas Smalling |
Competency-Based Standards for Sleep Disorders Specialist Education |
Thomas Smalling |
Controlling Nosocomial Infections in the Post-Acute Care Setting |
Eric Anderson |
Cost Containment in the Changing Healthcare Environment - Are You Focused on the Right Things? |
Cheryl Hoerr |
Could This be Vocal Cord Dysfunction? |
Carl Mottram |
Creating a Culture of Accountability |
Cheryl Hoerr |
Creating the Business Plan |
Frank Salvatore |
Critical Care in Disaster Response |
Lewis Rubinson |
Critical Issues in the Transport of Critically Ill Patients |
Steven Sittig |
Crossing into the Pediatric World: Treating BPD from a Pediatric Perspective |
Kathleen Deakins |
Current Practices in Severe Exercise-Induced Hypoxemia and Devices Used for Management |
Mary Hart |
Current State of Severe Asthma |
Bruce Rubin |
Data Management for the RT Manager |
Ricahrd Ford |
Delivering the Goods: Teaching Techniques |
Shawna Strickland |
Deployment as Part of an NDMS DMAT |
Alan Roth |
Developing Relationships with Physicians - The RT Perspective |
Jan Thalman |
Developing Relationships with Respiratory Therapists - The Medical Director Perspective |
Neil MacIntyre |
Developing Standards of Care in an Era of Incentives and Penalties |
Dan Easley |
Developing Your Skills as a Patient Educator |
Bill Galvin |
Diagnosing BPD in 2012: Anything New? |
Kathleen Deakins |
Diagnosis and Management of Pulmonary Arterial hypertension (PAH) |
Avery McKee |
Did You Achieve Your Goal? Outcomes Assessment |
Sarah Varekojis |
Do Full Feature Ventilators Add Value? |
Neil MacIntyre, Dean R Hess |
Does the Benefit Outweigh the Risk? |
Thomas Cahill |
Does Your Ventilatory Strategy Affect the Heart? |
George Ofori-Amanfo |
Early Mobility in the ICU |
Carl Hinkson |
Early Warning Signs in Pediatric Transport |
Ami Brownlee |
ECMO: Not Just for Kids Anymore! |
Neil MacIntyre |
Educating Patients and Families About End-of-Life Care: Who, When and How |
Robert Aranson |
Educating the COPD Patient at Home: What Works, What Doesn't and Why |
Louis Kaufman |
Ensuring Effective Operations |
Camden McLaughlin |
Esophogeal Pressure Monitoring |
Carl Hinkson |
Evidence-Based Medicine: Applying Evidence to Your Practice |
Roger Soll |
Exercising the Patient with COPD |
Debra Koehl |
Exercising the Patient with Pulmonary Fibrosis |
Debra Koehl |
Exercising the Patient with Pulmonary Hypertension |
June Schulz |
Exhaled Nitric Oxide in Pediatric Asthma: Friend or Fallacy |
Bruce Rubin |
Explosion/Blast Injuries: Mechanisms & Treatment |
Joe Hylton |
Finding a Way in Spite of the Obstacles |
Robert McCoy |
Fireproof Leadership through Stewardship and Accountability |
Stan Holland |
From Referral to Arrival…Behind the Scenes of a Transport Call |
Tabatha Dragonberry |
Gas Exchange Targets During Mechanical Ventilation |
Neil MacIntyre |
Getting Active in Advocacy and Research |
John Walsh |
Getting Credentialed (Part I): An Overview of Professional Credentials |
Bill Galvin |
Getting Credentialed (Part II): Success on the Written Exams |
Bill Galvin |
Growing Your Leadership Skills |
Scott Reistad |
Have New Noninvasive Modalities Reduced the Incidence of BPD? |
Jonathan Fanaroff |
Health Literacy |
Georgianna Sergakis |
Healthcare Disparities |
Crystal Dunlevy |
How a Respiratory Therapist Can Drive Health Systems Change and Improve Quality |
Dawn Aberle |
How Did I Get Here? |
Garner Faulkner |
How is PEEP Selected for Patients with ALI/ARDS? |
Richard Branson |
How to "Manage Up" |
Regenia Stull |
How to Come Up with a Good Research Question and What to Do with It |
John Davies |
How to Evaluate Students in the Classroom - an Accreditor's Perspective |
Pat Munzer |
Hyperbaric Medicine: Physiology and Clinical Application |
Clifford Boehm |
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis - Pathophysiology and Treatment |
Chris Garvey |
Improving Surveillance for Ventilator-Associated Events in Adults |
Shelley Magill |
Indications for Noninvasive Ventilation |
Peter Luckett |
Inhaled Pulmonary Vasodilators: Adult Applications |
Robert Kacmarek |
Inhaled Volatile Anesthetics |
John Arnold |
iNO and Premature Infants: A Critical Appraisal |
John Salyer |
iNO Delivery During NIV: Is What You Set What You Get? |
Robert DiBlasi |
Interdisciplinary Collaboration - Needed Now More Than Ever! |
Cheryl Hoerr |
Interstate Licensure: What You Need to Know Before You Cross the Line |
Alex Brendel |
Is Overlapping Asthma and COPD an Orphan Disease? |
David Mannino |
Is Your Department Ready? Challenges in the Face of Mass Casualty Ventialtor Deployment |
Kathy Moss |
It's Never Really Over: Continuing Your Education |
Lynda Goodfellow |
Keeping It Simple: Challenges in Teaching Newer LTOT Technology to Patients |
Louis Kaufman |
Keeping Your PR Program Vital - Building Your Business |
Trina Limberg |
Keynote Address |
John Nance |
Leading Without a Title |
Scott Reistad |
Lessons Learned from Normal Breathing at Rest and During Exercise |
Bhiken Naik |
Long-term Outcomes: The Real Story |
Jonathan Fanaroff |
Making It Happen: Training Strategies for Ensuring Competency |
Ronda Bradley |
Making the Most of Change: A Survivial Guide for Beside RCPs |
Dana Evans |
Managing the "Pediatric Adult" Patient |
Joel Brown |
Mannitol Challenge Testing: What's New and Lessons Learned |
Ellen Moran |
Mass Casualty Burn Care |
Keith Lamb |
Mechanisms to Reduce Healthcare Disparities |
Crystal Dunlevy |
Methods of Incorporating Critical Thinking in Your Curriculum |
David Shelledy |
Moving New and Emerging Technology from Laboratory to Bedside: The Use of Therapeutic Intrathoracic Pressure Regulation (TIPR) for the Apneic Hypotensive Patient |
Richard Branson |
Negative Pressure Pulmonary Edema: Etiology, Prevention and Treatment |
Mark Siobal |
Neonatal Oxygenation: Hitting the Sweet Spot |
Nancy Johnson |
Neonatal Respiratory Care "The Africa Experience" |
Maneesh Batra |
Neonatal Ventilation |
Sherry Courtney |
Networking for Career Success |
Colleen Schabacker |
New Roles for RTs: Improving Quality and the Bottom Line |
Thomas Lamphere |
No Sleeping in the Break Room…Managing Fatigue in the Workplace |
Karla Smith |
Non-Accidental Trauma in Pedatrics |
Ami Brownlee |
Noninvasive Monitoring of the Child in Respiratory Distress |
Cynthia White |
Nutritional Support of the Critically Ill Mechanically Ventilated Patient |
Ulrich Schmidt |
Obstructive Sleep Apnea: Long-Term Health Consequences, Drowsiness Aside |
James O'Brien |
Off-label Use of iNO: Clinical and Financial Implications |
Jenni Raake |
Optimizing the Patient-Ventilator Interaction |
Robert Chatburn |
Optimizng Outcomes for Lung Transplant Recipients |
Jeffrey Davis |
Overview of Clinical Simulation |
Roberta Hales |
Oxygen Conseving Delivery Devices: What Have We Learned? |
Robert McCoy |
Oxygen: Summary of the Respiratory Care Journal Conference |
Neil MacIntyre |
Oxygenation: A Moving Target per Diagnosis |
Lois Rowland |
Palliative Care and Dyspnea: Management of the End-Stage COPD Patient |
Helen Sorenson |
Pediatric Acute Lung Injury |
Peter Luckett |
Pediatric Patients |
Thomas Cahill |
Pediatric Respiratory Emergencies |
Nancy Johnson |
Performing a Needs Assessment for Your Institution |
Roberta Hales |
Permissive Hypercapnia: How High Is Too High? |
Brian Walsh |
Permissive Hypoxemia: How Low Is Too Low? |
Ira Cheifetz |
Physiologic Benefits of Inhaled Carbon Monoxide |
Paul Nuccio |
Planning Your Trip to the Moon: Pursuing Unique Opportunities |
Lisa Trujillo |
Policy and Procedure Formats That Improve Care and Empower RTs |
Jon Carlson |
Portable Sleep Studies |
Jessica Schweller |
Preparing and Training Respiratory Therapist for the Skills Required in Outpatient Management |
Mary Hart |
Pro-Con: Clinical ladder - Does a Truly Professional Workforce Need It? |
Richard Ford, Brian K Walsh |
Productivity and Benchmarking |
Bill Dubbs |
Professor's Rounds: Critically Ill Children - What Do They Teach Us About Caring for All Patients? |
Charles Durbin Jr |
Promoting Your Services From the Front Line: What to Say and Who to Tell! |
Garry Kauffman |
Providing Optimal Assessment and Training of the Elderly Patient in Pulmonary Rehabilitation |
Brian Carlin |
Proving the Value of RT Services: What Does the Evidence Say? |
Garry Kauffman |
Pulmonary Hypertension in the Neonatal Patient |
Nancy Johnson |
Pulmonary Hypertension in the Pediatric Patient |
Jenni Raake |
Pulmonary Rehab: What You Should Know About Caring for the Aged Patient |
Trina Limberg |
Reducing Chronic Lung Disease: Impact of Collaborative Quality Improvement |
Roger Soll |
Reducing Perioperative Morbidity for the OSA Patient: Developing an Effective Management Program |
Brian Carliln |
Reducing Readmissions with RT Interventions: A Decade of Success with COPD/Asthma RT Case Managers |
Joe Dwan |
Reporting of Adverse Events: Priority One! |
Thomas Lamphere |
Research Is Not a Bad Word: Infustion of Research as a Standard in RT Training |
Georgianna Sergakis |
Research with a Global Reach: PFT Research in Obscure Environments |
Lisa Trujillo |
Resistance Occlusion (ROCC): How Does this Method Compare to Other Techniques? |
David Kaminsky |
Resources to Assist Students in Preparing for Credentialing Success |
Bradley Leidich |
Respiratory Care Practitioners Working in Developing Countries |
Alan Roth |
Respiratory Therapists and Mass Casualty Care: Getting Involved |
Lewis Rubinson |
Respiratory's Role in the incident Command System |
Mark Babic |
Roundtable: Questions for the Editors |
Dean Hess, Ricahrd D Branson |
Routine Respiratory Care: Should It Be Done by the Respiratory Therapist? |
Garry Kauffman, Timothy R Myers |
RT-Driven Discharge Planning for COPD Patients |
Gary Brown, Becky K Anderson |
Safety in the Sleep Lab |
Crintz Scott |
Science and Evidence: Seperating Fact from Fiction |
Dean Hess |
Screening for Obstructive Sleep Apnea: An Expanded Role for Respriatory Therapists |
Andrew Mazzoli |
Seize the Opportunity: Teachable Moments for the COPD Patient During Hospitalization |
Byron Thomashow |
Selling the Sizzle: How to Communicate the Value of Untraditional Roles to the C-Suite |
Mary Lou Guy |
Sepsis and the Role of the RT |
Lesley Smith |
Shared Governance, a Multidisciplinary Approach |
Regenia Stull |
Should Cooling and CO2 Removal Be Included in the Treatment of Severe ARDS |
Peter Papadakos |
Six-Minute Walk vs. Control Work Rate: Measuring COPD Outcomes |
Mark Millard |
Sleep and Critical Care |
James O'Brien |
Sleep Apnea in the Bariatric Population |
Jessica Schweller |
Sleep Apnea in the Preoperative Setting; How to Develop an Effective Detection and Management Program |
Sheri Tooley |
Sleep Disorders in Children |
Suzanne Bollig |
Sleep Disorders in Women |
Paul Selecky |
Sleep in Women: What Is Normal? |
Suzanne Bollig |
Sleep Medicine: A Physician's Perspective |
Neale Lange |
So Where Do We Cut the Fat Without Cutting Services? |
Richard Ford |
So, What Have We Learned So Far? |
Greg Spratt Spratt |
Standing on the Precipice: What Do You Need to Know? |
Gary Jeromin |
Staying Connected - The Challenge of Communication |
Jan Phillips-Clar |
Structuring a Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program |
Debra Koehl |
Succession Planning: Preparing Your Staff to Replace You |
Jan Thalman |
Surfing the Wave of the Silver Tsunami |
Helen Sorenson |
Sustaining the Role of the RT in Sub-Acute Care |
Joseph Kretz |
Taking a Leadership Role in Patient Population Management |
Jon Carlson |
The "A" Team: How Do I Make the Roster? |
Garner Faulkner |
The ABCs of Performing a Shunt Study |
Mary Jo Biebl-Yahnke |
The Berlin Definitation of ARDS |
William Hurford |
The Best 5 Case Reports Published in Respiratory Care in 2012 |
Dean Hess |
The Best 5 Research Papers Published in Respiratory Care in 2012 |
Ricahrd Branson |
The Brazil Experience |
Edward Schneider |
The China Experience |
Cynthia White |
The Current State of the Journal |
Dean Hess |
The Difficult Pediatric Airway: Tricks of the Trade |
John Arnold |
The Human Lung Lab |
David Wheeler |
The Institutional Review Board - What Is It and How Does It Help Guide Research |
Robert Chatburn |
The Necessary Skills for Your Pulmonary Rehabilitation Program |
June Schulz |
The Personal Credential (BRPT, NBRC, AMSM credentials): Similarities and Differences |
Brian Carlin |
The Potential Use of Hyperpolarized Xenon MRI as an Imaging Tool for Ventilation |
John Davies |
The Program Credential (AASM, ACHC, TJC): Similarities and Differences |
Sheri Tooley |
The Role of Ethical Decision-Making in Multifaceted Emergenices |
Shawna Strickland |
The Role of the "Middle Space" in Reducing 30-day Readmissions |
Gene Gantt |
The RT as Case Manager in the Home Setting: Connecting the Dots |
Kim Wiles |
The Scientific Basis for Airway Clearance Techniques |
Teresa Volsko |
The Scientific Basis for Oxygen Therapy in the Hospitalized Patient |
Chris Blakeman |
The Scientific Basis for Post-Operative Respiratory Care |
Richard Branson |
The Scientific Basis for Protocol-Directed Respiratory Care |
James Stoller |
The Scientific Basis for the Selection of an Aerosol Delivery Device |
Timothy Myers |
The Successful Hospital-to Home Transition: Risk Factors & Treatment Strategies |
Brian Carlin |
The Vietnam, India, and Egypt Experience |
Robert DiBlasi |
Therapist as Consultant |
Teresa Volsko |
Tidal Volume Determination for Neonatal Ventilation |
Sherry Courtney |
Ultrasound for the Respiratory Care Practitioner |
Andrew Miller |
Understanding Reimbursement Issues in Pulmonary Rehabilitation |
Anne Marie Hummel |
Understanding the Basics of Impulse Oscillometry (IOS) |
Matthew O'Brien |
Using "Rule of Two"TM for Assessing Athma Control |
Mark Millard |
Venous Blood Gases: Friend or Foe? |
Andrew Miller |
Ventilator-Induced Surfactant Dysfunction |
Peter Papadakos |
Wake Up Before you Kill Someone! |
Karla Smith |
What Are the Different Types of Research Projects in Which RTs Can Play a Vital Role? From Bench to Publication |
John Davies |
What Do You Want to Achieve? Needs Assessment and Setting Objectives |
Bill Galvin |
What Happened to the "Sigh" in Mechanical Ventilation? |
Bhiken Naik |
What Have We Learned From Our Patients? |
Nicholas Macmillan |
What Tidal Volume Should Be Used? |
Richard Kallet |
What to Do When the People You Work With Drive You Crazy |
Mark Babic |
What's New in Pulmonary Rehabilitation?: The Updated (2012) ATS/ERS Guidelines |
Brian Carlin |
What's New with Heliox? |
Robert Kacmarek |
When Things Go Wrong: What Would You Do? |
Angela King |
Where Have We Come From, and Where Are We Going? |
Brian Walsh |
Working Nights: Same Shift, Different Day |
Crintz Scott |
Wrap Up - An Overview of Palliative Care |
Paul Selecky |
Year in Review: Invasive Mechanical Ventilation |
Ricahrd Kallet |
Year in Review: Asthma |
Timothy Myers |
Year in Review: Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease |
Stephen Rennard |
Year in Review: Cystic Fibrosis |
Teresa Volsko |
Year in Review: Noninvasive Ventilation |
Dean Hess |
Year in Review: Sleep-Disordered Breathing |
Suzanne Bollig |
Zip Line Leadership: Health Care Delivery Transformations |
Stan Holland |