10:45 AM - John Emberger, RRT-ACCS FAARC, CPHQ How to Safely Ventilate your Patient
1:00 PM - Emma Shields, RRT High Velocity Nasal Insufflation (HVNI) MOA
2:15 PM - Ken Capek, MPH, RRT Ethics: Why good people do bad things
2:15 PM - Stephen Hartz, RRT Utilizing NIV to Maximize Patient Outcomes Ethics
3:30 PM - Lenny Nyangwara, MS, RRT Making Respiratory Care a Value Added Service/
3:30 PM . Ken Capek, MPH, RRT Smoking, Vaping and Drug Addiction
5:30 PM - Vendor Reception
7:30 PM - Boogie nights
Total CRCE: 5
Thursday Agenda:
7am to 8:30am - Exhibit Hall (Grand Exhibit Center) and Breakfast
7:45am to 8:15am - Annual Business Meeting
8:30am-9:30am - Joe Goss, MSJ, RRT, RRT-NPS, FAARC What is all the BS about the BS?
8:30am-9:30am Charles Crugnola, Patient Safety: MBA Assessing and mitigating the dangers and risks to hospital patients and staff
9:30am -10:30am Mike Squillante, RRT-NPS, CPFT COPD Barriers in Rural Communities
9:30am-10:30am Al Heuer, PhD, MBA, RRT, RPFT, FAARC COPD Infection Surveillance, Prevention and Treatment in Acute Care: Sepsis, VAP and More
10:30 - 11am Vendor Hall
11:15am - 12:15pm Keynote
12:15pm - 1pm Award ceremony - Presidents Address
1pm - 1:30pm lunch
1:30pm - 2pm Vendor Hall-Student Hour
2pm-3pm Federico Cerrone, MD, FCCP, FAASM The Sleep Explosion! Why is Everyone Talking about Sleep?
2pm-3pm Thom Petty, RRT Step Away from that Tube: Increasing your Hospital Utilization of Mask Ventilation
3pm-4pm - Marcella Frank, DO Updates in Pulmonary Rehab
3pm-4pm Monica Giles, MAS, RRT, NCTTP Effects of Alcohol on Lung Disease
4pm-5pm - Bill Galvin, MSED, RRT, CPFT, AE-C, FAARC Patient Education: One Size Doesn’t Fit All... Teaching Across the Generations
4pm-5pm Amy Ceconi, PhD, RRT Infection Control in Respiratory Care
6pm Reception/Sputum Bowl
Total CRCE: 7
Friday Agenda:
8:30 AM Al Quinones, DHA, MA, RRT-ACCS-NPS, RPSGT, RPFT, CCT, AE-C, FACHE Understanding Asthma Endotypes and Phenotypes
9:45 AM Zeeshan Kahn, DO Advances in Critical Care
11:00 AM Karsten Roberts, MSc, RRT Should ECMO be considered a treatment for severe ARDS?
Total CRCE: 3