Adult and pediatric clinicians and nurses will have the opportunity to review the past year’s literature on clinical and research topics with expert presenters in the popular series “Clinical Year in Review,” “Nursing Year in Review,” and “Pediatric Year in Review.” These tracks present the perfect opportunity for attendees to gain comprehensive knowledge of the latest advances in their fields.

Clinical Year in Review sessions will run from 8:45 to 10:45 a.m. today through Wednesday in the Hall H (Ground Level) of the San Diego Convention Center. Today’s session will focus on mechanical ventilation, pulmonary and critical care training and workforce, and ethics and end of life. Monday will concentrate critical care, pulmonary rehabilitation and exercise, ARDS, and COPD. Tuesday’s topics will be pulmonary vascular disease, lung cancer, TB/NTM, and cystic fibrosis. The series will wrap up Wednesday with talks on asthma, genetics of lung disease, quality improvement, and sleep.

Attendees will leave with the ability to identify and apply new strategies to manage the care of common conditions in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep medicine; identify new findings that affect key conditions in pulmonary, critical care, and sleep that are important to patient care; and to adapt new clinical research knowledge to clinical practice.

Clinical Year in Review 1 (A1) is supported by an educational grant from InterMune, Inc.

Clinical Year in Review 2 (B1) is supported by educational grants from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Forest Laboratories, Inc.; and Pfizer, Inc.

Clinical Year in Review 3 (C1) is supported by educational grants from Genentech and Pfizer, Inc.

Clinical Year in Review 4 (D1) is supported by educational grants from Genentech and Novartis Pharmaceuticals Corporation.

Nursing Year in Review, which takes place from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Monday in Room 4 (Upper Level) of the San Diego Convention Center, will provide an overview of recent advances in the areas of critical care beginning with a keynote address on pulmonary intervention research in nursing.

Five speakers will look at pulmonary research conducted by nurse investigators addressing clinical problems in a variety of settings. In particular, they will examine the role of action research in lung disease and implications for care, partnershipbased nursing practice and COPD implications for care, measuring quality of life in mechanically ventilated patients in the ICU and implications for care, biological mechanisms of symptoms including genomic susceptibility of fatigue and sleep and intervention implications.

Speakers also will present their own or other recent studies and discuss methodologic approaches for addressing research questions. Research findings will be synthesized and applied to clinical practice with a focus on actual and potential nursing interventions.

Nursing Year in Review (B81) is supported by educational grants from Boehringer Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.; Forest Laboratories, Inc.; Pfizer, Inc.; and Sunovion Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Pediatric Year in Review from 2 to 4:30 p.m. Sunday in Room 6 D-E (Upper Level) of the San Diego Convention Center will present a scholarly discussion of several of the most important and influential papers in many clinical topic areas published within the past two years. Experts in their respective fields will discuss selected papers on viral infections of the respiratory tract, neonatal lung disease, PCD and Non-CF bronchiectasis, pediatric sleep medicine, and pediatric asthma.

Pediatric Year in Review (A81) is supported by an educational grant from Genentech.