The Ins and Outs of Ventilators

Course overview

This 3-hour course emphasizes key considerations applicable to the rehabilitation professional in effectively managing patients with respiratory failure. The majority of the time will be spent taking a very close look at how ventilators work to provide therapists with advanced information needed to assist them in treating patients who have respiratory compromise. The course will then attempt to emphasize the response-dependent approach to managing these patients. Evaluation strategies, organized clinical decision making, and effective treatment techniques will be emphasized. Clinicians are challenged to integrate and synthesize physiological and clinical principles in decision making through the use of this information.