Digital Seminar

Respiratory Pharmacology

Name: Respiratory Pharmacology
SKU: POS078445

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Have you ever felt a lack of confidence when prescribing pulmonary medications? You are not alone… During this Summit session, Dr. Paul Langlois, APN, Ph.D., CCRN, CCNS, will take you through laboratory data, testing results and physical assessment findings to determine the appropriate respiratory diagnosis. From there, you will take away the very latest updates to guide prescriptive decisions for the most common respiratory conditions you see in practice – asthma, COPD, COVID-19, TB, pulmonary hypertension, & pneumonia. This jam-packed presentation is sure to leave you with new insights and evidence guidelines to support patients optimally.

Here's What You'll Learn

Asthma – Not Just Bronchodilators Anymore

How is asthma diagnosed?
Global Initiative for Asthma (GINA) medication options
Role of corticosteroids in asthma treatment
Short acting beta agonists (SABA), long-acting beta agonists (LABA) - the difference and monitoring parameters
Muscarinic antagonists, leukotriene modifiers and phosphodiesterase inhibitors - must know indications and contraindications
Monoclonal antibodies for asthma relief

Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) – Long Term Pharmacologic Therapies

COPD causes, symptoms and diagnostic tests
Non-pharmacologic treatments
SABA and LABA - when and how much
Inhaled corticosteroids alone or in combination with bronchodilators
Vaccines are a must – which ones and at what age to administer

SARS-CoV2, COVID-19

Laboratory parameters for SARS-CoV2
How effective are all those COVID-19 vaccines
Which antiviral medications are FDA approved and which are still in clinical trials?
Dexamethasone is effective - but only in certain patient populations

Tuberculosis (TB): Still Prevalent and Highly Contagious

What is Mycobacterium tuberculosis and how is it detected?
First line medications for drug susceptible TB (doses, how often & how long to take)
Multi-drug resistant TB treatments

Pulmonary Hypertension

Diagnosis of pulmonary hypertension
12-lead ECG results in a patient with pulmonary hypertension
Select between calcium channel blockers, phosphodiesterase inhibitors, endothelin receptor antagonizes and prostacyclin agonists

Pneumonia

Community acquired treatment options
Antibiotic options based on patient history
Hospital acquired pharmacology
How to treat methicillin resistant staphylococcus aureus

Everything You're Getting

More than 1 hour of video content
Up to 1.75 CE credits
Certificate of completion

Handouts and resources

Meet Your Experts

Paul Langlois, APN, PhD, CCRN, CCNS

Paul Langlois, APN, PhD, CCRN, CCNS, is a critical care clinical specialist in the surgical, medical, neurologic, burn, CCU, and trauma ICUs of Cook County Hospital, Chicago. Drawing on over 40 years of experience assessing and managing patients with life-threatening diseases, Dr. Langlois provides advanced-level training to nurses, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, respiratory therapists, and physicians.

Dr. Langlois is committed to providing the highest quality of care to patients through advanced education. His presentations are evidence-based, timely, and go beyond content review to sharpen the clinical reasoning underneath it, using illness scripts, anticipatory thinking, and layered case studies to help experienced clinicians reason out loud rather than simply recall answers. As a bedside clinical nurse specialist, he has developed several institution-wide protocols for the multidisciplinary assessment and management of patients.

His presentations are enthusiastically delivered and offer highly practical tips that help make the most challenging concepts easy to understand, from cognitive-bias traps that shape a shift to the SBAR calibration that gets a "come now" call heard the first time. Linking knowledge to clinical practice is the goal of every educational program, and Dr. Langlois builds that link through near-miss scenarios and "what would you do?" cases designed to sharpen judgment, not just test it.

Speaker Disclosures:
Financial: Dr. Paul Langlois has employment relationship with Cook County Hospital and Emergency Care Consultants. He receives a speaking honorarium and recording royalties from PESI, Inc. He has no relevant financial relationships with ineligible organizations.
Non-financial: Dr. Paul Langlois is a member of the American Nurses Association, the American Association of Critical Care Nurses, and the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

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Media Type:: Digital Seminar
Product Code:: POS078445
Duration:: 1 hour, 54 minutes
Copyright:: May 19, 2022
Closed Captions:: Available
Format:: Audio and Video

Planning Committee Disclosure - No relevant relationships

All members of the PESI, Inc. planning committee have provided disclosures of financial relationships with ineligible organizations and any relevant non-financial relationships prior to planning content for this activity. None of the committee members had relevant financial relationships with ineligible companies or other potentially biasing relationships to disclose to learners. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography.

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NOTE: Tuition includes one free CE Certificate (participant will be able to print the certificate of completion after passing the online post-test (80% passing score) and completing the evaluation). Instructional methods will include PowerPoint, didactic lecture, and others.

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For Planning Committee disclosures, please see the statement above. For speaker disclosures, please see the faculty biography. A small portion of the material for this CE activity was developed with limited assistance from generative AI. All AI-generated information was reviewed for accuracy by the instructor, an independent content reviewer, or PESI staff. Evergreen Certifications is owned by PESI, Inc. Counselors please note: This activity is not offered for NBCC CE hours.

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This self-study program offers 114 instructional minutes of pharmacology content which is designed to qualify for 1.75 contact hours toward your pharmacology requirement.

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PESI, Inc. is accredited as a provider of nursing continuing professional development by the American Nurses Credentialing Center’s Commission on Accreditation. Nurses completing these self-study materials will earn 1.75 contact hours. Expires: 04/22/2028.

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PESI, Inc. is a provider approved by the California Board of Registered Nursing, Provider #: 17118 for 1.5 self-study contact hours.

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