Target audience
Allied health professionals, nurses, trainees and doctors.
Educational aims
Following this course, participants will
- understand the weaning process and the role of the MDT in weaning from NIV
- be able to identify the roles of the MDT in weaning patients from PMV
- assess cough and be familiar with various methods used to assist a cough
- understand how fiber-optic endoscopic evaluation of swallowing (FEES) can be used in weaning and risk factors for dysphagia in tracheostomised patients
- have increased clinical and research knowledge of nutrition in respiratory failure
- have experienced the impairments of people with PMV using simulation suits and explored its functional implications
- be able to describe the various types of tracheostomy tubes and the process of decannulation
- have a better understanding of MDT roles and how to improve collaborative working to provide better patient care and outcomes