Main goal of the program – make you a superb clinician in evaluating the respiratory status of your patient – to do this easily, quickly and safely

• Learn how to monitor your patients breathing better than ever, better than you have been taught in the past
• Never be caught off guard regarding impending respiratory emergencies
• Make assessments in seconds, prevent problems before they arise

Learn what techniques to use and why

• Why capnography has been called the 15 second vital sign
• Why capnography is better than respiratory rate and auscultation at evaluating effectiveness of breathing
• How use of capnography makes evaluating the danger of sedation easy, safe and fast
• Learn how capnography can prevent catastrophic errors in endotracheal and nasogastric tube placement
• Why physical assessment is often inaccurate and misleading
• When should pulse oximetry be used (and in what patients is it best)
• How should blood gases be used and easily interpreted
• How use of capnography provides the patient and hospital enormous cost savings

Key Topics

• Use of capnography
• Technologies to measure pulmonary function that are easy, safe and can be done in all clinical settings, not just ICU’s
• Oximetry and blood gas interpretation
• Drug therapy – what to use and when, plus evaluating if the therapy worked. Learn if a therapy worked in minutes, not hours.

Learn the scientific support of the methods taught in this program – the evidence is clearly in favor of these methods rather than the techniques currently used