Rural Reach Webinar - I'm feeling gassed: A common sense approach to shortness of breath

Dr. Fil Gilic, brings us "I'm feeling gassed: A common sense approach to shortness of breath" for the next Rural Reach Webinar.

Please note, this is not an accredited event.

Free for SRPC Members / $50 for General Admission

Date: Thursday, October 24, 2024
Time: 8:00 p.m. (Eastern Time)
[click to convert to your local time]
Location: Zoom - The link will be in the confirmation email

Can't make it live? No worries! The session will be recorded and shared with registered attendees. 

Description:

Respiratory distress is a complex and scary presentation with many etiologies and a strong potential for the patient to suddenly deteriorate. In this session, we want to provide a simple, flexible and powerful framework for dealing with respiratory distress emergencies

Objectives:

• Understand the key facts of respiratory physiology
• Use Airway and Respiratory Assessment Triangles
• Apply the Universal Treatment Progression of respiratory distress

Presenter:

Dr. Fil Gilic -  Full time rural EM physician, Kingston area
Simulation Educator, Queen's University. Founder of RuralResus.com rural medical education website and courses. After a stint in the Canadian Forces as a paratrooper, he tried to bike, sail, paddle and hike every type of environment he could find. He wandered the country as an itinerant ER doc until settling back to Kingston where he did his residency. He works in small towns around it while teaching across the nation. He tries to spend as much time in the outdoors with his two boys as he can muster.