Earlier this year, Dr. Bettina Boeriu from Hospice Casa Sperantei in Bucharest, Romania, attended the Salzburg CHOP Seminar in Pediatric Pulmonology, where she learned about the cough assist device. Inspired, she brought a pediatric pulmonologist from Bucharest to train the hospice team, enabling them to support children with respiratory secretions. Families are now receiving hands-on guidance, and one child has gone three months without respiratory infections after his mother learned to use the device at home. Bettina emphasizes: this transformative impact all began with attending the Salzburg seminar.
I attended the Salzburg CHOP Seminar in Pediatric Pulmonology in the spring of this year. I just wanted to share some good news with you.
At the seminar, I learned about the cough assist. We have such a machine in our hospice, but we lack professionals who can use it. So, I searched for a pediatric pulmonologist from Bucharest (the only one in the country who has experience with this machine) and invited her to our hospice. She taught us how to use it, and now our team is helping children with secretions who are admitted to our service. We will also send patients to Bucharest to receive a recommendation to have a cough assist at home.
One of our patients has a machine at home, but no one could teach the mom to use it. She also took part in this teaching meeting, and now her son, who had respiratory infections all the time, has not needed any treatments in three months since the mom learned how to use the cough assist!
And all of this happened because I attended the seminar in Salzburg!
Bettina Boeriu, MD
Pediatrician, Hospice Casa Sperantei
Bucharest, Romania