An Atos Medical webinar in Collaboration with Johns Hopkins University, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery
Webinar date: January 10, 2025
Event start and end time: 11:00am -3:30pm CT
Event length: 4.5 hours
Intended audience: Healthcare professionals
CEUs offered: Application will be made for ASHA CEUs
Course description: Participants will learn about long-term laryngectomy care through a multidisciplinary approach, focusing on tracheoesophageal (TE) voice restoration and survivorship. The course covers medical and emotional patient needs, including TE voice prosthesis and puncture management, dysphagia, vocal outcomes, psychosocial issues, and common challenges and etiologies.
Course objectives:
- Summarize common complications encountered impacting survivorship of laryngectomy patients
- Identify troubleshooting solutions and algorithms for managing adverse events
- Describe best practices in management of patients with a voice prosthesis using a multidisciplinary team approach
Course agenda and speakers:
11:00 - 11:05am - Welcome and Course Introduction - Rina Abrams, MS, CCC-SLP
11:05 - 11:25am - TEP Challenges in the Aging Population and Complex Cases: Part 1 - Erin Guidera, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
11:25 - 11:45am - Part 2: TEP Challenges and Case Studies - Jessica Maloney, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S
11:45 - 12:05pm - Part 3: TEP Challenges and Case Studies - Rina Abrams, MS, CCC-SLP
12:05 - 12:35pm - Dysphagia intervention for Total Laryngectomy - James Clark, MD
12:35 - 1:10pm - Research Spotlight: A Guiding Framework for Patient-Centric Dialogues - Barbara P. Messing, PhD, CCC-SLP, BCS-S, FASHA
1:10 - 1:40pm - Ethical and Moral Distress, Compassion Fatigue and Grief and Loss in Working with Persons with Laryngectomies and Approaches for Self-Care - Laura Hoofring, MSN, ARNP-PMH, BC
1:40 - 2:10pm - Psychosocial Impacts on the Total Laryngectomy Population - Claire Suddarth, LMSW
2:10 - 2:55pm - Supportive Care, long term HNS complications - Christine Gourin, MD
2:55 - 3:25pm - Medical panel discussion and Q&A - Moderated by Rina Abrams
3:25 - 3:30pm - Closing remarks and adjournment
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