Solving a Medical Mystery: How COVID-19 Silenced Hypoxia
Course: #1834Level: Advanced 1 Hour 302 Reviews
Silent hypoxia occurs in some COVID-19 patients affecting breathing perception and dyspnea. This course discusses the silent hypoxemia’s relationship between ventilatory drive, cardiovascular decline, and the phenomenon of sudden death.
On Demand
Course Type: Video
CEUs/Hours Offered: AARC - CRCE/1.0; CE Broker/1.0 Direct Delivery Of Respiratory Care Services, CE Broker #20-1090652; IACET/0.1
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Learning Outcomes
- After this course, participants will be able to recall the PaO2 and SaO2 values defining levels of hypoxemia and their relationship to respiratory drive.
- After this course, participants will be able to explain how respiratory drive and dyspnea and linked.
- After this course, participants will be able to define the term hypoxic ventilatory decline and explain its significance to silent hypoxemia.
- After this course, participants will be able to list seven sources of increased respiratory drive and dyspnea.
- After this course, participants will be able to identify seven conditions that explain the appearance of silent hypoxemia.
Course created on July 20, 2023
Agenda
| 0-5 Minutes | Introduction |
| 5-15 Minutes | Control of Breathing and the Hypoxic Ventilatory Response |
| 15-25 Minutes | Breathing Perception and Dyspnea in COVID-19 |
| 25-40 Minutes | Breathing Perception and DyspneaVarious Inputs that Generate DyspneaHypoxemic Induced Dyspnea Hypoxic Ventilatory Decline as “Happy Hypoxemia” |
| 40-55 Minutes | Silent Hypoxemia and COVID-19 Overview and Case Reports |
| 55-60 Minutes | Summary, Q&A |
Reviews
302 ReviewsPresented By
Rich Kallet
MS RRT, FAARC, FCCM
Rich Kallet has been a respiratory therapist for over 40 years having obtained his baccalaureate degree in cardiorespiratory science from the State University of New York Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, NY, and his master od science degree at San Francisco State University. He spent most of his career working for the University of California, San Francisco at San Francisco General Hospital and Trauma Center before retiring in 2018 as Director of Clinical Research and Quality Assurance for the Respiratory Care Department. Between 1996-2007 he was a research coordinator for the NIH ARDS Network at UCSF and from 2014-2020 he was an associate editor of the journal Respiratory Care. Over the past year Rich has served as respiratory care technical advisor on COVID-19 to both the World Health Organization and United States Agency for International Development.
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American Association for Respiratory Care
This non-traditional program has been approved for a maximum of 1 contact hour(s) Continuing Respiratory Care Education (CRCE) credit by the American Association for Respiratory Care, 9425 N. MacArthur Blvd. Suite 100 Irving TX 75063. Course # 190155000
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