Spirometry Workshop Refresher

Birmingham, AL

Overview: This one day NIOSH approved refresher workshop will cover proper spirometry technique and its importance in occupational health. This course will include 7 hours of instruction, through lectures, class exercises and time in performing spirometry.

Topics:

• Review of the most recent ATS/ERS testing standards and guidelines,
• Review of testing contraindications and procedures,
• Review of technical procedures and instrumentation requirements including calibration check procedures,
• Review sources of error, and their correction for both volume displacement and flow measuring spirometers,
• Review of the effective use of volume-time and flow-volume displays,
• Review recommended procedures for proper infection control,
• Differentiation of lung function patterns (normal, obstructive, restrictive, and mixed disease) spirograms.

Spirometry Workshop Refreshers: NIOSH-Approved Spirometry course certificates currently expire 5 years after the course is completed.  To renew NIOSH course certificates, technicians should complete a NIOSH-Approved Spirometry Refresher course before their current course certificate expires.  NIOSH is instituting a 7-month grace period to extend the window of time for completing the needed NIOSH-Approved Refresher training.  

For example, if the current certificate was awarded on April 1, 2008, then the technician may take a NIOSH-Approved Spirometry Refresher Course within 5 years and 7 months of that date, i.e., until November 1, 2013. 

*For more information please visit: http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/topics/spirometry/training.html

Course Director Lisa Montiel, MAEd, RRT, Director of Cardiopulmonary Services at UAB Medical West.  Ms. Montiel has a Masters of Arts Degree in Education and is involved with a number of health related professional organizations and committees.  She is NIOSH approved course director and has been a Registered Respiratory Therapist since 1981.

Professional Points As an approved provider of the AL Board of Nursing, The Deep South Center for Occupational Health & Safety has awarded: Spirometry Workshop refresher 9.0 contact hours, (ABNP0420, expires 1/03/19).

Registration fee of $365 must be received in advance. This includes instructional and reference materials. A list of nearby hotels will be provided in your confirmation letter. For the spirogram critique, please submit 5 test results, with tracings, prior to the class.