35th Annual
Pacific Northwest Regional
Respiratory Care Conference
And
Scientific Assembly
April 27th – 29th, 2008
Doubletree Hotel Seattle Airport
Seattle, Washington
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Sunday April 27, 2008
GENERAL SESSION
7:00 AM Registration
7:45 AM Opening & Welcome
Dennis Bing, RRT, Respiratory Care Society of Washington
President 2008
8:00 AM Key Note Address (All Attendees)
A Respiratory Therapist Could Have Saved George Washington
David J. Pierson MD FAARC
Medical Director, Respiratory Care Harborview Medical Center
Professor of Medicine Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine University of
Washington
9:00 AM Break - Concurrent Pulmonary Diagnostic Session Starts
9:15 AM Legislative Advocacy: The Other Side of Clinical
Frank Salvatore, BS, RRT, FAARC
Chair – AARC Federal Government Affairs Committee
10:00 AM Legislation in Olympia and DC: Implications for Practitioners and Patients
Gary Wickman, BS, RRT, Legislative Liaison
RCSW Delegate to AARC House of Delegates
10:45 AM OSA/Obesity Hypoventilation: Outpatient & Inpatient Management
Donald Howard, MD
Spokane Respiratory Consultants
11:45 AM Lunch on your own
RCSW Annual Business Meeting
1:00 PM How to Lobby Your State Legislature
Senator Chris Marr
Washington State Senator (D), 6th Legislative District
2:00 PM COPD Management: Offering Our Patients Hope
Patrick Dunne
3:00 PM Break
3:15 PM Changing the Course of Clinical Practice Through Automation and Protocols
Judy Tietsort, RN, RRT, FAARC
Mediserve Information Systems
4:15 PM Hypoxic Drive in COPD: Is the Fear of O2 Therapy Fact or Myth
Mark Siobal, BS, RRT
Clinical Specialist, San Francisco General Hospital
5:30 PM Wine & Cheese Reception - Opening of the Bio-Medical Pavilion
Sunday April 27, 2008
PULMONARY DIAGNOSTIC SESSION
7:45 AM Opening & Welcome
Dennis Bing, RRT, Respiratory Care Society of Washington
President 2008
8:00 AM Key Note Address (All Attendees)
A Respiratory Therapist Could Have Saved George Washington
David J. Pierson MD FAARC
Medical Director, Respiratory Care Harborview Medical Center
Professor of Medicine Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine University of
Washington
9:00 AM Break: Concurrent Pulmonary Diagnostic Session Starts
9:15 AM EVH Eucapnic Voluntary Hyperventilation Test for Evaluation of Bronchial
Hyper-reactivity
David Sinks Director, Technical Marketing, Cardinal Health
Sponsored by Viasys Healthcare
10:15 AM Interventional Bronchoscopy
Navdeep S. Rai, MD Interventional Bronchoscopy Specialists for Pulmonary
Consultants, PLLC
Sponsored by Olympus Medical
11:15 AM ATS/ERS interpretation Scheme – The Final Chapter
Carl Mottram, RRT, RPFT, FAARC
Mayo Clinic Pulmonary Function Labs & Rehabilitation
Sponsored by MedGraphics Corporation
12:00 PM Lunch on your own-- RCSW Annual Business Meeting
1:00 PM Cherry Red and Sleepless in Seattle: Update on Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Dr. Neil Hampson, MD Video of VMMC Hyperbaric Center with Dr. Hampson
Medical Director, Virginia Mason Center for Hyperbaric Medicine
Sponsored by nSpire Health
2:00 PM Origins of Predicted Values How/Why to Choose your Predicteds
Gregg Ruppel, MEd, RRT, RPFT, FAARC
St. Louis University Health Science Center
3:00 PM Pre-School Spirometry: ATS/ERS 2007 Standards Implementation
David Sinks
Director, Technical Marketing, Cardinal Health
Sponsored by Viasys Healthcare
4:00 PM PFT Q & A Roundtable Discussion: Ask the Experts!
Carl Mottram, RRT, RPFT, FAARC and Gregg Ruppel, MEd, RRT, RPFT, FAARC
5:30 PM Wine & Cheese Reception - Opening of the Bio-Medical Pavilion
Monday April 28, 2008
GENERAL SESSION
7:00 AM Registration
7:45 AM Opening & Welcome
Dennis Bing, RRT, Respiratory Care Society of Washington
President 2008
8:00 AM Key Note Address (All Attendees)
IMV to APRV – A Natural Evolution in Lung Protective Strategy
John B. Downs, MD
Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
University of Florida College of Medicine
9:00 AM Break – In Exhibit Hall, Peds Concurrent Session Starts
10:00 AM The Toyota Production Management System in Healthcare: From Cars to
Critical Care: Part I
Michael Westley, MD, FCCP, CPE, Medical Director, Respiratory and Critical Care
slide 1-85
Virginia Mason Medical Center
11:00 AM The Toyota Production Management System in Healthcare: From Cars
to Critical Care: Part II slide 86 - 144
Robert Hase, MS, RRT-NPS
Manager, Respiratory Care, Virginia Mason Medical Center
12:00 PM Lunch – Provided in the Exhibit Pavilion
1:30 PM Oxygen Therapy – How We Got Where We Are (Controversial)
John B. Downs, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
University of Florida College of Medicine
2:30 PM ABC…XYZ: Why So Many “Modes” of Mechanically Assisted Ventilation
pending sent updated version for posting.
Dennis Bing, RRT, Respiratory Care Society of Washington
President 2008
3:30 PM Break
3:45 PM Clinical Applications of Dead Space Measurements in Mechanically Ventilated
Patients
Mark Siobal, BS, RRT
Clinical Specialists, San Francisco General Hospital
4:45 PM What’s Really, Really New in Mechanical Ventilation?
SmartCare (Drager)
PAV (Coviden)
HFOV In Adults (Cardinal)
Nava (MAQUET)
Panel Discussion with Local and National Experts
7:00 PM Sputum Bowl
Light Snacks, Selected Beverages and Friendly Competition Provided
Monday April 28, 2008
PERINATAL – PEDIATRIC CARE SESSION
7:15 AM Registration
7:45 AM Opening & Welcome
Dennis Bing, RRT, Respiratory Care Society of Washington
President 2008
8:00 AM Key Note Address (All Attendees)
IMV to APRV – A Natural Evolution in Lung Protective Strategy
John B. Downs, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology and Critical Care Medicine
University of Florida College of Medicine
9:00 AM Break – In Exhibit Hall, Peds Concurrent Session Starts
9:30 AM Inhaled Nitric Oxide Therapy
Dan L. Stewart, MD Professor of Pediatrics, University of Louisville
ECMO Director, Nurseries Director, Kosari Children’s Hospital
10:30 AM Extracorporeal Life Support
D. Michael McMullan, MD
Surgical Director of ECMO, Seattle Children’s Hospital & Regional Medical Center
11:30 PM The Performance of Manual Resuscitators- Research of a Series of Experiments
John Salyer RRT-NPS, MBA, FAARC, Director Respiratory Care
Seattle Children’s Hospital
12:30 PM Lunch--Provided in the Exhibit Pavilion
1:30 PM ARDS in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit
Lincoln Smith MD, Pediatric Critical Care Medicine
Critical Care Medicine Division, Seattle Children’s Hospital and
University of Washington School of Medicine
2:30 PM You’re Going to Nebulize What??
Brian Walsh RRT-NPS, MBA, FAARC,
Clinical Research Coordinator, Respiratory Care Department
Boston Children’s Hospital
3:30 PM A Brief History of High Frequency Ventilation: Devices and Pathophysiology
Evan Richards RRT, Director of Clinical Services
Bunnell Inc. Salt Lake City Utah
4:30 PM Assessing Pediatric Respiratory Distress
Ted Carter MD, Medical Director Respiratory Therapy Services
Pediatric Pulmonary Division, Seattle Children’s Hospital and
University of Washington School of Medicine
7:00 PM Sputum Bowl
Light Snacks, Selected Beverages and Friendly Competition Provided
Tuesday April 29, 2008
GENERAL SESSION
7:15 AM Registration
7:45 AM Opening & Welcome
Dennis Archer, BS, RRT, Respiratory Care Society of Washington
President – Elect 2008
8:00 AM Keynote Address
Getting Ready for Disaster, is it Lessons Learned or Just Lessons Observed (pending his
emailing updated version)
Bill Lokey, Program Manager, James Lee Witt Associates
Formerly, FEMA Federal Coordinating Officer
9:00 AM Break – Exhibits Open
9:45 AM Modified Critical Care and Treatment Space Considerations
For Mass Casualty Critical Illness and Injury
David Hotchkin, MD
Fellow, Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine, Harborview Medical Center
10:45 AM Healthcare & Disaster: Can You Dodge the Bullet
Marianne Shaw, RRT-NPS, MSHS, Memorial Medical Center, Modesto, California
Assistant Manager Respiratory Care and Rehabilitation Services
11:45 AM Lunch – Provided in the Exhibit Pavilion
1:15 PM The Battle of New Orleans: Where Did All Those Patients Go? Part I (pending
editing and emailing to us)
Pete Suver, MSHS – ALS Coordinator, Thurston County Medic One
Cindy Hambly, EMT – Program Manager for Training & QA, Thurston County
Medic One
2:15 PM The Battle of New Orleans: Where Did All Those Patients Go? Part II
Pete Suver, MSHS – ALS Coordinator, Thurston County Medic One
Cindy Hambly, EMT – Program Manager for Training & QA, Thurston County
Medic One
3:15 PM Break
3:30 PM Implications of CBRNE Agents for Respiratory Care Practitioners
Marianne Shaw, RRT-NPS, MSHS, Memorial Medical Center, Modesto, California
Assistant Manager Respiratory Care and Rehabilitation Services
4:30 PM Expert Panel & Audience Discussion – Open Mike
Dennis Archer, BS, RRT; Cindy Hambley, EMT
Marianne Shaw, RRT-NPS, MSHS; Pete Suver, MSHS
5:30 PM Regional Conference Adjourned