Evidence and Experience webinar series: Post-laryngectomy pulmonary and related symptom changes following adoption of an optimal day-and-night heat and moisture exchanger (HME) regimen

Evidence and Experience webinar series: Post-laryngectomy pulmonary and related symptom changes following adoption of an optimal day-and-night heat and moisture exchanger (HME) regimen

Join a webinar focused on a newly published clinical study presented by the investigator, Elizabeth Ward, PhD. You can join one of two live sessions with exclusive opportunity to ask the investigator questions. The objective of this webinar is to present and discuss new evidence on using an optimal day-and-night regimen. This new study examined changes to post-laryngectomy pulmonary health and related symptoms following establishment of an optimal Day & Night regimen.

Principal investigator Elizabeth Ward, Centre for Functioning and Health Research, Metro South Health, Brisbane, Australia, will present the results of this evidence and discuss the clinical implications for patients. 

Learning Objectives

• Understand the role of Heat and Moisture Exchangers (HMEs) and the importance of pulmonary optimization for patients post total laryngectomy surgery
• Recognize the Provox Life range and the differences from existing HMEs
• Understand the pulmonary and other clinical outcomes achieved through establishing an optimal Day and Night HME regimen using Provox Life range of HMEs

Timed agenda
0:00 - 0.:05 – Introduction and disclosures
0.:05 - 0.30 – Presentation of Ward et al (2023) Provox Life study findings
0:30 – 1:00 – Question and Answer with Prof Ward and co-authors from the clinical trial

Title of the study
“Post-laryngectomy pulmonary and related symptom changes following adoption of an optimal day-and-night heat and moisture exchanger (HME) regimen."

Webinar option 1 
Tuesday, 16^th May 2023

09:00 AM – 10:00 AM CET (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) 
08:00 AM – 09:00 AM GMT (London, UK) 
03:00 AM – 04:00 AM ET (New York, USA) 
00:00 AM – 01:00 AM PT (Los Angeles, USA) 
05:00 PM – 06:00 PM (Brisbane / Sydney, Australia)

Professor Liz Ward is currently the Director of the Centre for Functioning and Health, Queensland Health, and is a conjoint Professor with the School of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, The University of Queensland. She has published extensively during her career, with over 400 publications across a number of research fields including head and neck cancer care, dysphagia assessment and management, telehealth, motor speech disorders, simulation training, and the implementation of new models of allied health care.

As Professor Ward's research is primarily clinically based, her work has great impact on clinical service provision within the field of speech pathology, enhancing the evidence base in her research areas.