Oral Care &  Aspiration Pneumonia

This program will be available for new subscriptions May 1, 2012.

Read below for a description of this course. 

This course consists of one presentation and supporting documents

This course is offered for 0.2 ASHA CEUs (Intermediate Level; Professional area)

CEU Credits and Prices

• You will receive a certificate of completion from BRS-S within three weeks of completing the application and submitting to BRS-S.
• Your ASHA CEU credits will be processed through the Specialty Board on Swallowing and Swallowing Disorders and submitted to ASHA two times per year; August and December.

• The regular price for the course is $50.00
  • BRS-S members get a 25% discount - get the coupon code by logging onto your account at swallowingdisorders.org.
  • Students get a 50% discount, contact Karen Schnieder This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for the coupon code.
  • Groups of four or more get a 50% discount, contact Karen Schnieder This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it for the coupon code.

    Click on a link at the bottom of the page to be taken to the Subscriptions page.

This course will focus on the pathogenesis of aspiration pneumonia in dysphagic patients, oral health and its contribution to systemic disease and pneumonia, and the delivery of effective oral care that may mitigate aspiration pneumonia risk in dysphagic adults. This course consists of the BRS-S presentation of the 2010 Meet the Masters Symposium.  The live event took place the evening before the start of the 2010 ASHA convention in Philadelphia, PA and was recorded for posting here at the BRS-S continuing education web site.

Meet the Masters Brochure. 

Learning objectives:

Participants will be able to:

• Identify conditions of oral health that predispose to pneumonia pathogenesis
• Identify non-dysphagia risk factors for pathogenesis of aspiration pneumonia
• Define “periodontitis”, “oral colonization”, “aspiration pneumonitis”.
• Identify successful properties of an oral hygiene/care protocol in an acute care setting

Duration

The presentation is approximately 2 hours long.




Once you have subscribed to this presentation, you will need to download the handouts. Click on any of the links at the bottom of the page to be taken to the Subscriptions page.

Each speaker’s presentation is accompanied by a printable handout (file names correspond with speaker names and order of each speaker’s presentation). The recording of the slides was performed using a process that has made some of the smaller font text a bit fuzzy; the handouts are perfect reproductions of the speakers’ materials.

Presenters

Linda Mackay, MA, CCC-SLP, BRS-S

Managing Director, Rehabilitation Medicine
Saint Francis Hospital and Medical Center
Hartford, CT
Assistant Professor of Surgery, Section of Otolaryngology
University of Connecticut School of Medicine

James L. Coyle, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BRS-S

Assistant Professor,
Communication Science and Disorders
University of Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania

Susan Langmore, Ph.D., CCC-SLP, BRS-S

Director, Speech-Language Pathology
Professor, Otolaryngology
Boston University Medical Center
Clinical Professor
Speech Language Hearing Sciences
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts

Paul Marik, MD

Professor and Division Chief
Pulmonary Medicine
Eastern Virginia Medical School
Norfolk, Virginia

Tessa Goldsmith, MA, CCC-SLP, BRS-S

Associate Director
Department of Speech, Language and Swallowing
Massachusetts General Hospital
Boston, Massachusetts

Kenneth Shay, DDS, MS

Director of Geriatric Programs
Department of Veterans Affairs
Ann Arbor, Michigan