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Northeast Center for Special Care 2005 Respiratory Symposium

For immediate release: July 22, 2005

Northeast Center for Special Care presents its 2005 Respiratory Care Symposium and CEU Seminar to be held on Thursday August 11, 2005.  Several symposiums will be offered on mechanical ventilation, sleep apnea, asthma, ventilator associated pneumonia (VAP), COPD, cardiovascular disease and using humor in medicine.

The presenters are:  Alicia Aldridge, RRT/CBIS-CI, Geoffrey Serfilippi, MD, Kenneth Wyka, MS, RRT, FAARC, Harold Sokol, MD, Anthony J. Cagino, MD, FCCP, and Alan Glickman, MS, RN.

The symposium agenda is as follows:

8:00-8:30          Registration & Continental Breakfast
8:30-9:30          “Transitions to Long Term Care for the Mechanically Ventilated Patient”
                            - Alicia Aldridge, RRT/CBIS-CI
9:30-10:00         Vendor Exhibits
10:00-11:00       “Updates & Management of COPD”
                            - Geoffrey Serfilippi, MD       
11:00-12:00       “Obstructive Sleep Apnea & It’s Relationship to Cardiovascular Disease and Other Health Problems”
                            - Kenneth Wyka, MS, RRT, FAARC    (Sponsored by Home Therapy Equipment)
12:00-1:00         Lunch
1:00-2:00           “All that Wheezes is not Asthma”
                            - Harold Sokol, MD
2:00-2:30           Vendor Exhibits
2:30-3:30           “Ventilator Associated Pneumonias”
                            - Anthony J. Cagino, MD, FCCP
3:30-4:30           “Humor in Medicine”
                            - Alan Glickman, MS, RN
4:30-5:00           CEU Distribution

The Symposium is free to registered attendees and includes lunch.  Attendees must register by Monday August 8, 2005 by calling Northeast Center for Special Care at 845-336-3500 Ext. 3108 or Ext. 3196.

It will be held at:  The Holiday Inn, 503 Washington Avenue, Kingston, NY 12401

Northeast Center for Special Care is a state-of-art rehabilitation program for individuals with brain injury, neurobehavioral disorders, spinal cord injury, and ventilator dependency.  Established in 1999, it is located on a lovely thirty-nine acre campus in Lake Katrine, NY.  The mission of Northeast Center for Special Care is rehabilitation, recovery and community reentry for individuals with disabilities.  Since its inception, hundreds of individuals have "graduated" from its programs and have moved on to integrated settings in their communities.  Among its many accomplishments, the ventilator weaning program has earned great distinction for the Center's success in weaning individuals off of ventilators.

Web Site:  www.northeastcenter.com


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