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Expert Series: How to Keep Airways Clear and Breathing Great – Bulbar Function and Respiratory Muscles

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Patients with progressive or static neuromuscular disease, and certainly mitochondrialRelated to the mitochondria. disease, can cause significant difficulty with airway clearance.  This can be a problem on an everyday basis when a patient is well, but will become a much larger problem when a patient is acutely ill.  We will discuss the link between bulbar / upper airway function, respiratory muscle weakness and airway clearance and how to optimize airway clearance and lung health.

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breathing, expert series, respiratory

About the Speaker

Oscar Henry Mayer, MD

Oscar Henry Mayer, MD

Dr. Oscar Henry Mayer is a Professor of Clinical Pediatrics at The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, and an Attending Pulmonologist within the Division of Pulmonology at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). He is the medical director of the CHOP Pulmonary Function Testing (PFT). He has been actively involved in the specialized care of patients with neuromuscular disease and complex chest wall and spinal deformity. He has been the pulmonologist in the Neuromuscular Center for the last 23 years and in the Center for Thoracic Insufficiency Syndrome since its inception 20 years ago. He is on a number of national committees and study groups involved in pediatric pulmonary function testing, the assessment and management of children with complex thoracospinal disorders and neuromuscular disorders, on which he has lectured nationally and internationally and has published over 90 journal articles and book chapters on his research and clinical interest. 

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