Acute Respiratory Failure: Pathophysiology and Management

Concurrent Session Moderator(s)

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  Keith Lamb, RRT, RRT-ACCS

  Resp Therapist/Respiratory Therapy Svcs
  University of Virginia
  Charlottesville, VA

  Advisory Council - Fisher Paykel

This session will review the basics of acute respiratory failure for a broad multidisciplinary audience. Topics include the basic pathophysiology of respiratory failure and the management (and associated evidence) of respiratory failure, including noninvasive strategies, ventilator manipulation, and weaning and extubation. Speakers will have a case-based discussion at the end.

Presentations:

• Acute Respiratory Failure: A Pathophysiology Primer
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: John J. Marini, MD – Regions Hospital
• Managing Respiratory Failure Without an Endotracheal Tube
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Keith D. Lamb, RRT, RRT-ACCS – University of Virginia
• Successful Weaning and Extubation
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Timothy Girard, MD, MSCI – University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
• Respiratory Failure: Case Review by the Experts
  

  Concurrent Session Faculty: Hilary Faust, MD – University of Wisconsin School of Medicine and Public Health