by: Parent Project Muscular DystrophyEarly Pulmonary Care Webinar (September 2014)
The lungs require the strength of many muscles to help a person to breathe and cough. As people with Duchenne grow older, the respiratory muscles, like the skeletal muscles, become weaker. Like the heart, every person with Duchenne will have pulmonary issues of some type. The goal of pulmonary care is to allow both the prevention and management of respiratory complications. This is such an important area of care and concern that we pulled together pulmonary experts from across the US to address these important issues. This fall, PPMD will present a three part series on the pulmonary care of patients living with Duchenne. The first webinar in the series addressed early pulmonary care on September 24, 2014 at 2 PM EDT.
Speakers:
- Dr. Hemant Sawnani (Cincinnati Children’s Hosptial Medical Center)
- Dr. Richard Shell (Nationwide Children’s Hospital)
- Dr. Oscar Henry (“Hank”) Mayer (Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia)
Topics:
- staying healthy
- the importance of immunizations
- when to begin spirometery
- what should spirometery include
- when to start to use a cough assist
- pulmonary considerations in emergency care
- safe/unsafe anesthesia
- the issue with oxygen
- preserving pulmonary expansion
