Industry Breakfast Symposium - ResMed: Practical initiation and support of patients on non-invasive ventilation.
Tracks
Track 2
| Friday, October 18, 2024 |
| 7:00 AM - 8:20 AM |
| Room 5 |
| Sponsored By: |
Details
The Victorian Respiratory Support Service (VRSS) is a state-wide program caring for over 1,400 patients on home ventilation based out of The Austin Hospital, Melbourne. In this session, VRSS Senior Physician Dr Anna Ridgers will present a practical guide to initiating and managing long-term ventilation.
Topics are tailored to enhance patient care in your everyday clinical practice. Dr Ridgers will cover:
• Understanding the underlying pathophysiology of respiratory failure
• An approach to the assessment of respiratory failure
• Selection of NIV settings based on clinical phenotype
• Advanced NIV settings with case based studies
• NIV Optimisation
• NIV implementation including ventilator selection
• Progressive Neuromuscular Disorders/at risk populations
• Titration of therapy
• An approach to remote monitoring of NIV
Speaker
Dr Anna Ridgers
Physician
Austin Health
ResMed Sponsored Symposium Speaker
Biography
Dr Anna Ridgers is a Sleep and Respiratory Physician specialising in ventilation, sleep apnoea, insomnia and circadian disorders. Her clinical roles include respiratory and sleep medicine (chronic ventilation clinics including tele-health), sleep reporting and interventional pulmonary procedures (bronchoscopy, EBUS and pleural procedures). Dr Ridgers has recently completed a PhD in the treatment of chronic respiratory failure with NIV and optimising therapy using ventilator data.
