Course Curriculum
Course Objective:
To provide a comprehensive overview of positive airway pressure (PAP) therapy in treating various forms of sleep disordered breathing. This course is intended for physicians, nurse practitioners, sleep technologists, respiratory therapists DME providers, and laboratory managers.
Course Curriculum:
Diagnostic Aspects of Sleep Disordered Breathing
- Obstructive sleep disordered breathing
- Sleep related hypoventilation
- Sleep disordered breathing associated with COPD
- Sleep disordered breathing associated with neuromuscular disease
- Central sleep apnea
- Cheyne-Stokes respiration
- Drug effects on respiration
- CPAP induced and CPAP emergent sleep apnea
- Transient and benign respiratory phenomena during sleep
- Overview of respiratory transducers
- Recording artifacts
Clinical Record Review
- Normal variants of NREM and REM sleep physiology
- Current scoring criteria for identifying sleep related respiratory events
- Interpreting respiratory patterns that do not fit current scoring criteria
- Differentiating between clinically significant events and normal variants of sleep physiology and/or possible recording artifacts
- Applying clinical judgment in making titration decisions
CPAP and Bi-level Positive Airway Pressure (PAP) titration
- Overview of PAP therapy and basic principles of operation
- Titration protocols and policies
- Effects of rebound sleep
- Bi-level PAP therapy
- Modes of operation
- Complex titrations
- Adaptive servo-ventilation (ASV)
- Use of supplemental oxygen with PAP therapy
- Ensuring long-term success with PAP therapy
CPAP / Bi-Level PAP Workshop
- Equipment demonstration
- Mask fitting
- Review of titration procedures
- Desensitization techniques
Patient Follow-up and CPAP Therapy Compliance
· Enhancing CPAP therapy compliance
· Monitoring CPAP compliance
· Current reimbursement requirements
· Interpretation of download reports
· Patient interaction
· Follow-up routines
· Patient support groups
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