AAST: Technical Guidelines

PAP Acclimation and Desensitization

First Sleep School

Who It's For

Individuals who are looking to expand their knowledge base of the Technical Guidelines associated with helping patients get introduced to PAP treatment, helping those having issues tolerating PAP treatment as well as those that are preparing for the RPSGT Board Exam under the new format.

Topics Covered

  1. Summary
  2. Scope
  3. Equipment and Techniques
  4. Preparing Patient
  5. The Interface and Leaks
  6. Intolerance and Education
  7. Standards and Quality Assurance
  8. Compliance and Non-Compliance
  9. Desensitization

What to Expect

Students enrolled in this course can expect short, high quality video lessons about 5-10 minutes in length, followed by a brief quiz after each lesson.

Description

This course is a comprehensive review of the AAST Technical Guideline for Positive Airway Pressure Acclimation and Desensitization. This course is great for anyone wanting to learn the fundamental and recommended standardized approach to introducing a patient to positive airway pressure for the very first time as well as how to respond those patients that have difficulty initially acclimating to the treatment option. Incredible development tool for newer sleep professionals and a great review for experienced technologists or those in leadership positions looking to implement a standardized approach within their sleep center. There are 14 lessons totaling 78 minutes of video-contact time. The average lesson is 5.6 minutes long.

Approved for 1.25 CSTE Units by the BRPT

Course Overview

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Section 1

PAP Acclimation and Desensitization

What to Expect

Each student is given their own personal Dashboard upon enrollment. This is where you will access any course(s) you are enrolled in, as well as manage your user profile, achievements, certificates, order histories, and view course completion.

The course material is a Micro-Learning styled approach to teaching. 

Each lesson is broken into two components:

  1. A short on-screen video
  2. A brief quiz over the specific topics reviewed in that lesson’s video.

We intentionally structure our courses this way because we believe that providing information in relatively short bursts of focused content promotes retention rates and increases comprehension.

On average, video lessons are around 5 minutes. A few lessons can reach up to 15 mins for some of the more condensed content, and others are a little as 1 minute in length.

After each video lesson is completed, the student will be given the option to either rewatch the video as many times as they would like, or they can proceed to the quiz.

Immediately following each lesson, you will be prompted to take a brief quiz, usually consisting of about 5 questions. The quizzes are times, however you will have multiple attempts to achieve a passing grade. 

Before a student is allowed to advance to the next lesson, a passing grade of 80% must have been acquired on the previous quiz.

The video lesson can be rewatched in between each quiz attempt, if the student would like to watch it again.

This particular course does not make use of an exam review. We believe you have what it takes to complete this course without it!

Each lesson is carefully prepared and instructed by First Sleep School’s Owner, Larry Brewer

Larry is a Registered Sleep Technologist with over 15 years of experience.

He focuses on providing a clear understanding of the content through a relational styled teaching approach. He appreciates the value of providing real-life examples to explain even the most complex content. 

See what previous students have to say about Larry, here.

Video Contact Minutes
Repeatable Lessons

24/7

Access to Content

0
Access Plans

Access Plans

6 Month

6 Month 24/7 Access to Content
$ 50 One-Time Payment
  • 6 Month Access
  • 14 Repeatable Lessons
  • 1.25 CSTE Units

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