National Association for Medical Direction of Respiratory Care (NAMDRC) 37th Annual Meeting and Educational Conference

The program is designed to provide meeting registrants with a broad cross section of clinical information as well as to identify on-going health policy issues that should serve as an excellent educational opportunity.

The content will include: funky ventilatory modes; a technology approach to pulmonary embolism; managing hospital readmissions; non-invasive measurements; the latest coding and billing issues in inpatient and outpatient pulmonary and critical care; computer assisted learning tips for busy pulmonologists; how torun clinical trials in private practice; effects of the Affordable Health Care Act on pulmonary medicine; impacting physician practice models; new health care technologies; regionalization of critical care; sleep apnea pre-operative screening, phenotyping and in lab gizmos and gadgets; a future look into pulmonary function testing and interventional pulmonology.