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New Tools in the Management of Central Sleep Apnea and Cheyne Stokes Respiration

This content is provided by Zoll/Respicardia.

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Join us for a pre-recorded web course discussing Central Sleep Apnea as well as the clinical evidence for phrenic nerve stimulation.
Topics include:

  • CSA pathophysiology and prevalence
  • How phrenic nerve stimulation therapy works in stabilizing breathing
  • Appropriate patients for phrenic nerve stimulation
  • Clinical results at 6, 12 and 18 months

Presenters:

Dr. Alan Schwartz

  • Professor of Medicine, ret. (Johns Hopkins School of Medicine)
  • Clinical Associate Professor (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine)
  • Profesor Extraordinario Visitante (Universidad Peruana Cayetano Heredia, Lima PERU)
  • Former medical director of the Johns Hopkins Sleep Disorders Center and co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Interdisciplinary Sleep Research and Education

Dr. Robin Germany

  • Chief Medical Officer of Respicardia
  • Clinical Assistant Professor, Division of Cardiovascular Disease, University of Oklahoma

CEC Credit(s): 1.0

Length: 52 minutes

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