Landscape of U.S. Virtual Pulmonary Rehabilitation: The Known and Unknown Aspects (bundle)

Presented by: Aimee Kizziar, MHAL, BA, RRT-NPS, RCP, CES; Connie Paladenech, RRT, RCP, MAACVPR, FAARC
Disclosures: None 

1.25 CEUs: AACVPR, AMA, CDR, ANCC, AARC, ACSM

Description: This presentation, recorded at the 2024 Annual Meeting, will discuss how center-based (CB) pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) is well established with 40 years of substantial clinical effectiveness and safety. A growth in U.S. virtual models in the past five years has raised questions about equivalence, program heterogeneity virtual pulmonary rehabilitation (VPR) characteristics versus CB PR given the current lack of accepted PR quality metrics. The speakers will share the survey data that has emerged. 

Learning Objectives:

1. Review the well-established history of clinical effectiveness and safety of CB PR.
2. Discuss the data on the emergence of virtual models in the U.S. over the last five years, raising inquiries about the equivalence and program variations, especially in the absence of accepted quality metrics for VPR. Where we go from here.