Celebrating Respiratory Care Week 2023
Thank you, respiratory therapists, for everything you do!
In celebration of your dedication to patient safety, improving outcomes, and evolving clinical practice, join us in amplifying the voices of your peers and experts in respiratory care! Take a look at our full line-up of live, CE-accredited education opportunities throughout Respiratory Care Week.
Live, CE-accredited webinars
Implementation of Capnography in a Med-surg Unit
Event Date: Monday, October 23, 12 PM EST
Jennifer Surprise, MSN, APRN, ACNS-BC, PMGT-BC, AP-PMN
Discover how an experienced healthcare facility has successfully implemented capnography monitoring and developed protocols and guidelines to help maintain patient safety.
Interpretation: Spanish, Portuguese
CE Accreditation: Respiratory Therapists (AARC), Nurses (CBN), Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (B Credit)
Non-invasive Respiratory Support
Event Date: Tuesday, October 24, 12 PM EST
Raymond Nkwantabisa, MD, MSc, FAAP
During this webinar, Dr. Nkwantabisa will:
- Review pathophysiologic underpinnings for the different levels of respiratory support
- Discuss indications, benefits, and limitations of the different levels of non-invasive support
- Review signs of inadequacy/failure of non-invasive respiratory support
Interpretation: Spanish, Portuguese
CE Accreditation: Respiratory Therapists (AARC), Nurses (CBN), Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (B Credit)
Unplanned Extubations in the NICU
Event Date: Wednesday, October 25, 2 PM EST
Brian K. Walsh, PhD, RRT, RRT-NPS, RRT-ACCS, RPFT, FAARC
During this presentation, Dr. Walsh will:
- Define unplanned extubations
- Discuss unplanned extubations in the NICU
- Describe clinical outcomes
- Go over financial implications
- Talk about evidence-based approaches
- Review technological solutions
Interpretation: Spanish, Portuguese
CE Accreditation: Respiratory Therapists (AARC), Nurses (CBN), Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (B Credit)
Proportional Modes: When and How
Event Date: Thursday, October 26, 12 PM EST
Irene Telias, MD
Dr. Telias will introduce the concept of proportional modes of ventilation. Proportional modes of ventilation work by amplifying the effort of the patient's respiratory muscle activity, providing the necessary support to improve the imbalance between capacity and demand and to reach the patient's ventilation goal at the same time.
Interpretation: Spanish, Portuguese
CE Accreditation: Respiratory Therapists (AARC), Nurses (CBN), Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (B Credit)
Communication and Swallowing Post-Tracheostomy
Event Date: Friday, October 27, 12 PM EST
Robert Dewey, Senior Speech Pathologist
Robert Dewey, Senior Speech Pathologist at George Washington University Hospital, will present on how the tracheostomy team there manages patients with tracheostomies, focusing on communication and swallowing post-trach.
Interpretation: Spanish, Portuguese
CE Accreditation: Respiratory Therapists (AARC), Nurses (CBN), Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists (B Credit)
On-demand resources that fit your schedule
Medical Education Podcast
Our MedEd podcast provides brief, interview-style discussions with clinical experts and is designed to teach safe and effective use of different therapies. Topics include airway monitoring in the NICU, challenges of airway management, and more.
MedEd Bytes
MedEd Bytes is a video series that offers a quick and digestible learning format on topics such as capnography waveforms, the technology behind pulse oximetry, ventilator breath delivery, and more.
Engineering the extraordinary – in respiratory care
Explore innovations in ventilation, patient monitoring, and airway management.
Puritan Bennett™ 980 ventilator
The Puritan Bennett™ 980 ventilator helps enable patients to breathe more naturally† through some of the most innovative breath delivery technology available. Our simple, safe, and smart design provides more natural ventilation that may help improve patient comfort.1
Puritan Bennett™ 980 ventilator enhanced capabilities
We’re continuously improving our ventilator technology to help critical care patients get off the ventilator sooner — and to help you work simple, safe, and smart. Upgrade your Puritan Bennett™ 980 ventilators with enhanced capabilities tailored to your specific area of care. Get the advancements you need, when and where you need them most. See how our solutions have evolved to support your unique patients.
DAR™ filters
Keeping patients and healthcare providers safe in hospitals starts with something as small as a ventilator filter. Compact in size yet high in efficiency, our wide range of DAR™ filters are designed to minimize the spread of infection and the risk of cross-contamination.
SonarMed™ airway monitoring system
Precise ETT airway monitoring for neonates didn’t exist – until now. Precious neonatal patients require precise endotracheal tube (ETT) monitoring. The SonarMed™ airway monitoring system is the only ETT airway monitor to provide real-time visualizations at the bedside for accurate, informed troubleshooting, which may save precious time and help reduce unplanned extubations.‡
Shiley™ flexible tracheostomy tubes
The future is flexible. That’s why we’ve replaced our legacy tracheostomy tube with the comprehensive Shiley™ flexible tracheostomy tube portfolio.§ The newer Shiley™ flexible tubes feature design enhancements inspired by clinician and patient feedback. Take a look at the enhanced features – designed to improve the experience for you and your patients.
Shiley™ cuffed basic endotracheal tubes
Shiley™ airway management products have been a trusted brand for more than 30 years. We are dedicated to providing superior products for the optimal value. All Shiley™ endotracheal tubes are quality tested. Helping clinicians optimize patient outcomes and maintain patient safety are our highest priorities.
Puritan Bennett™ cuff pressure manager
Manually sustaining stable cuff pressures in your ventilated patients can be unreliable. Puritan Bennett™ cuff pressure manager offers a simple solution to a serious safety issue by continuously measuring and automatically maintaining cuff pressure.
RespArray™ patient monitor
The RespArray™ patient monitor, including Nellcor™ pulse oximetry and Microstream™ capnography technologies, is designed to make continuous monitoring simple to help optimize patient safety and workflow.
Nellcor™ OxySoft™ SpO₂ sensor
Our Nellcor™ OxySoft™ SpO₂ sensor is the first pulse oximetry sensor to use a silicone adhesive to help protect fragile skin and improve repositionability. It is engineered with brighter LEDs on a flexible circuit — helping you stay connected to your patients and their data.
Nellcor™ portable SpO₂ patient monitoring system, PM10N
The Nellcor™ portable SpO₂ patient monitoring system, PM10N, is a convenient, handheld monitor that is ideal for spot-checks or continuous monitoring in various healthcare and home use settings. Its ergonomic shape and simple design make it intuitive to use and simple to operate. Wherever you need accurate, reliable SpO₂ measurements, count on the Nellcor™ portable SpO₂ pulse oximeter to meet the challenge.
Microstream™ capnography monitoring
Clinician time and resources are limited, but a patient’s needs are not. Microstream™-enabled capnography monitoring provides an early warning of respiratory compromise,2 offering clinicians the opportunity to provide care sooner and quickly determine how to intervene, reducing risk and saving time, money, and lives.
HealthCast™ intelligent patient manager
HealthCast™ intelligent patient manager is a portfolio of remote monitoring and connectivity solutions to help simplify patient management. The portfolio empowers clinicians with real-time, actionable insights and workflow automation. With the HealthCast™ portfolio, clinicians can proactively treat patients with more personalized care in hospital and from hospital to home.
HealthCast™ portfolio BioButton®* multi-parameter wearable
The BioButton® medical-grade, multi-parameter wearable is for continuously monitoring general care patient, in-hospital and hospital-to-home. The device captures continuous vital signs of skin temperature, respiratory rate at rest, heart rate at rest, along with a broad range of other biometrics.
HealthCast™ monitoring and CDS solution
The Vital Sync™ monitoring and clinical decision support (CDS) solution is designed to simplify time-intensive patient care processes and help clinicians prevent or mitigate harmful and costly adverse events. Integrated and customizable, the Vital Sync™ CDS solution combines remote monitoring software with multiple CDS mobile applications to help improve clinical protocol implementation and patient management.
†Compared to conventional mechanical ventilation (VC,VC+,PC,PS).
‡The SonarMed™ airway monitoring system should not be used as the sole basis for diagnosis or therapy and is intended only as an adjunct in patient assessment.
§Legacy / previous Shiley tracheostomy tubes refers to Shiley DCT, DCFS, DCFN, DFEN, LPC, CFS, CFN, FEN and Perc tracheostomy tubes.
1. Grasso S, Puntillo F, Mascia L, et al. Compensation for increase in respiratory workload during mechanical ventilation. Pressure-support versus proportional-assist ventilation. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2000;161(3 Pt 1):819-26
2. Maddox RR, Oglesby H, Williams CK, Fields M, Danello S., Continuous respiratory monitoring and a “smart” infusion system improve safety of patient-controlled analgesia in the postoperative period. http://www.ahrq.gov/downloads/pub/advances2/vol4/Advances-Maddox_111.pdf View Abstract
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