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This presentation will focus on the importance of identifying inpatients with OSA, discuss appropriate testing and required accommodations. Indications for further testing and treatment goals and implications for discharge planning will also be explored.

Respiratory therapists are presented with unique challenges when testing and treating pediatric patients. Pediatric testing, whether it's in a designated area or at the bedside, requires a unique approach that includes special techniques and practice styles necessary to capture the patient's attention, gain the cooperation necessary to produce valid results and produce appropriate treatment and outcomes.

This presentation will describe situations in which blood gases are frequently over and underutilized. Clinical indications for blood gas sampling will be discussed and optimal use of protocols/algorithms that promote best practice in obtaining blood gas samples will be described.

This presentation will strive to improve respiratory therapists’ ability to help their patients with chronic lung disease improve the quality of life. Participants will be provided with a patient’s perspective on their interaction with the healthcare system and the barriers they need to overcome to improve compliance with their prescribed plan of care.

This presentation provides an overview of the theory of BiLevel modes of ventilation with a brief discussion of application. Airway Pressure Release Ventilation and BiLevel Positive Airway Pressure will be compared and contrasted. Published clinical evidence, describe theoretical concepts for areas where evidence is lacking will be reviewed, and a BiLevel simulator that illustrates the interaction of set ventilator parameters and outcome patient variables will be demonstrated. This is an advanced lecture that assumes familiarity with basic mechanical ventilation and pressure control modes in general.