ASHA Learning Pass

This session will address nonventilated and ventilated speaking valve use, patient candidacy, and evidence-based SLP interventions for caring for patients with tracheostomies. The presenter will discuss in-line speaking valve candidacy as well as ventilator settings, steps, compensation, and stop criteria for both vented and nonvented speaking valve use. The session will address questions like: Which patients are appropriate for speaking valves? Can patients use speaking valves while on a ventilator? What is the SLP’s role?

This is a recorded session from a 2024 ASHA online conference, Airway Fundamentals: Considerations for SLP Decision-Making.

Learning Outcomes
You will be able to:

• Identify patients who are candidates for speaking valve use
• Describe steps and stop criteria for speaking valve use
• Explain ventilator compensation for in-line speaking valve use

Presenter Information

Candice Devlin, MS, CCC-SLP, BCS-S (she/her/hers) is a senior speech pathologist and board-certified specialist in swallowing at Duke Regional Hospital and the Durham VA Medical Center. Clinical interests include dysphagia in pulmonary critical care, and tracheostomy/ventilator dependent populations. She established and leads her hospital’s interdisciplinary tracheostomy team, and brought respiratory muscle training, in-line Passy-Muir Valve, and IDDSI programs to Duke Regional Hospital. She has published, presented, and been a podcast speaker on oxygen therapies, mechanical ventilation, and swallowing.

Disclosures:

• Financial compensation from ASHA for this presentation

Assessment Type

Self-assessment—Think about what you learned and report on the Completion Form how you will use your new knowledge.

To earn continuing education credit, you must complete and submit the learning assessment by July 31, 2030.

Program History and CE Information

Online conference dates: June 5–17, 2024, November 6-18, 2024
End date: July 31, 2030