National Respiratory Care Week: Oct. 22-29
October 3, 2005
Please join us this October when we recognize and honor the contributions of respiratory therapists during National Respiratory Care Week 2005, October 22-29.
This weeklong celebration has been around nationally for more than 20 years and is sponsored by the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC).
Please take time to acknowledge our respiratory therapists this week. They play a vital role at Children’s.
This year’s celebration at Children’s will begin October 22nd with a Regional Respiratory Care Symposium, co-sponsored by Highline Community College and the Respiratory Care Society of Washington State and is open to respiratory therapists, doctors and nurses who have an interest in clinical respiratory care.
The symposium will offer accredited CEU’s.
This year’s symposium has nationally prominent speakers from all over the country, including:
- Joe Rau RRT, PhD - Georgia State University,
- Anthony DeWitt, RRT, JD - Bartimus, Frickleton, Robertson & Obetz.
- Donna Hammel, RRT - Duke University Medical Center
- Ted Carter, MD - University of Washington School of Medicine
- Dennis Bing, RRT - Draeger Medical Inc.
- Rob Diblasi, RRT - Viasys Healtcare Inc.
- Dave Crotwell, RRT - Children’s Hospital and Regional Medical Center, Seattle
Topics covered will include:
- Volumetric capnometry in children
- Airway pressure release ventilation
- Error Prevention
- Liability and the respiratory therapist
- Asthma epidemiology
- Advances in aerosol therapy