Critical Care Adults CEU Courses for Respiratory Therapists

The course will be in four thirty minute segments following a patient that presents with acute respiratory failure that progresses significantly. The patient will be followed from beginning to end and there will be participant interaction throughout the case.

This course describes the concept of mechanical power and how to calculate it. The course discusses the role of mechanical power in ventilator-induced lung injury (VILI).

Various methods have been developed over the past half-century to set and evaluate the effects of PEEP. This presentation describes the 6 methods used to assess both lung recruitment and deleterious effects of PEEP.

The essence of weaning is that critically-ill patients can resume unassisted breathing when minute ventilation demands and mechanical disturbances in the pulmonary system improve enough that their respiratory muscles can handle increased workloads without developing fatigue. Therefore, this lecture explains how respiratory muscle physiology is impacted by pulmonary disease and also how ventilator strategies either facilitate or stymie weaning. Both aspects are essential for clinicians to master the art of weaning.

This advanced course reviews extracorporeal support (ECMO) and adjunct treatment for patients with acute respiratory failure. The focus of the course is on increasing familiarity with findings in the current literature and includes future directions, theoretical information, and clinical and research applications. The extracorporeal support and adjunct treatment course is the third in the series and a stand-alone course examining the management of critically ill patients from the least invasive to most invasive modes of support.

This advanced course reviews noninvasive support, invasive mechanical ventilation, extracorporeal support and adjunct treatment research and case reports. The course focuses on increasing familiarity with findings in the current literature and includes future directions, theoretical information, and clinical and research applications. The course is the fourth in the series and a stand-alone course examining the evidence and case reports of critically ill patients from the least invasive to most invasive modes of support.

This advanced course reviews noninvasive support for patients with acute respiratory failure. The focus of the course is on increasing familiarity with findings in the current literature and includes future directions, theoretical information, and clinical and research applications. The Noninvasive Support course is the first in the series and a stand-alone course examining the management of critically ill patients from the least invasive to most invasive modes of support.

This advanced course reviews invasive mechanical ventilation for patients with acute respiratory failure. The focus of the course is on increasing familiarity with findings in the current literature and includes future directions, theoretical information, and clinical and research applications. The invasive mechanical ventilation course is the second in the series and a stand-alone course examining the management of critically ill patients from the least invasive to most invasive modes of support.

We largely think about mechanical ventilation focused on the future, at the cost of not appreciating how past practices still influence current understanding about the care we give: often to our detriment. This lecture is a story of how we arrived at this moment when describes how artificial intelligence might revolutionize how we deliver care in the near future.

This course is intended to review current prevalent respiratory care-specific medications. This course provides specific updates to respiratory therapy medications released to the market over the last 10 years.