AACVPR TELECONFERENCE

Understanding & Utilizing Long Term Oxygen Therapy

Presented By:
Trina M. Limberg, BS, RRT, FAARC, FAACVPR

March 27, 2008, 1-2 pm Eastern Time
(12 pm Central, 11 am Mountain, 10 am Pacific)

This teleconference, presented by Trina Limberg, Director, Pulmonary Rehabilitation Department at the University of California San Diego Medical Center will examine evidence based guidelines and position papers for a historical look at oxygen therapy as a treatment to improve survival in chronic lung disease patients. There will be a review of the various resources at hand for treating the ambulatory patient with exertional hypoxemia. The importance of repeated assessments with exertion and delivery devices will be stressed and the need for reproducible standards for conducting oxygen assessment will be addressed. The presentation will focus on how pulmonary rehabilitation professionals can lend their skills in the assessment, putting forth recommendations for appropriate equipment and educating patients as well as physicians in long term oxygen therapy use.

Following this teleconference, participants will be able to:

• Understand the importance of oxygen assessment with different delivery devices during exertion.

• Identify various features and limitations of delivery devices

• Gain insight to improve oxygen prescription adherence and patient self monitoring.

 

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This teleconference presentation is sponsored by Nonin Medical & Respironics