Critical Care Adults CEU Courses for Respiratory Therapists

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.

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 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 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 presentation is intended to overview common ventilator scalars/graphics associated with various conditions common to the intensive care environment that result in patient discomfort and asynchrony. This presentation provides a detailed review of ventilator graphics in general.

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.

COVID-19 and its impact on the respiratory system vary in short- and long-term complications. This advanced course reviews the current literature on respiratory disease secondary to COVID-19 and its outcomes. The discussion focuses on increasing familiarity with understanding the management of hypoxia and respiratory illnesses of differential levels secondary to COVID-19.

An introductory course focuses on providing a step by step understanding for endotracheal intubation using a standard video laryngoscope. The course describes the indications for use, the procedure and expected outcomes.

Noninvasive ventilation (NIV) before intubation provides an overview of respiratory failure and evidence-based considerations for the implementation of noninvasive positive pressure ventilation (NIPPV). The course is designed to provide the listener with additional perspective on applying NIPPV in the critical care environment.

The course introduces the practitioner to criteria and procedures for standard weaning in mechanical ventilation. The course discusses indicators used to predict weaning success and failure in mechanical ventilation.