Spirometry Update: Performing in Adults and Children

This is event is for staff working in Primary Care in Nottingham & Nottinghamshire

Aim of this Event

This two hour stand alone webinar is aimed at healthcare professionals that have already completed training in spirometry and are performing it in clinical practice and require an update.

Target Audience

Nurses, HCAs, Pharmacists, GPs- anyone who undertake spirometry within practice.

Objectives

This webinar will cover:

• The ATS/ERS 2019 Standardisation of spirometry update
• The indications and contraindications of spirometry
• Infection control
• Preparing the equipment
• Patient preparation
• Performing spirometry in line with ARTP standards- getting a good result
• Technical acceptability and reproducibility (adults and children)
• Spirometry demonstration/video
• Reversibility testing
• Recognising errors in spirometry
• Introduction to the measurements obtained from spirometry
• The National register
• Spirometry will be discussed in line with the current ARTP guidance

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Registration Deadline

• 12th October at 23.30
• Please register with your nhs.net email where possible. If the event is oversubscribed, priority may be given to those who have registered with NHS addresses.
• You will receive a certificate for your attendance. Please allow two weeks for this to be delivered to your inbox. We would advise checking your junk mail before contacting NATH for your certificate at alliance.hub1@nhs.net

The meeting will be broadcast on the MS Teams platform. We recommend participants log on via a computer or laptop for an optimal experience.

There will be a photographer present at the event, should you not wish to be photographed please tick the opt out box on the booking page.

Those who do NOT want to be photographed are responsible for notifying the camera operator of their opt-out status.

This event is planned because respondents to the Nottinghamshire Alliance Training Hub (NATH) Primary Care Training Needs Analysis (TNA) 2024/25 suggested the topic as a local training need.

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