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Ep 439 - A Recipe for a Life Well-Lived Guest: Dr. Doug Clement   “May you live long and prosper” (“dif-tor-heh”) is an idiom from a Jewish term and is popularly attributed to Commander Spock of Star Trek. While that may be so, it is also an apt description of the life of Dr. Doug Clement.   “The questions,” asks Clement, “is how do you do both? Live long and prosper?” The average life expectancy in British Columbia is just north of 82 years. “So living long isn’t the issue,” says Clement, “but living long isn’t a guarantee [that] you will live well, especially when you cross the 60-year mark.”   According to Clement, there are a plethora of factors that contribute to wellness. He says they include “physical and mental fitness, an ongoing sense of purpose and contribution, a sufficient amount of money to alleviate financial stress, and happiness.” Clement also points to the findings of the Grant Study of Adult Development, a Harvard program that tracked the lives of 238 people between 1938 and 2000, which states, “The surprising finding is that our relationships and how happy we are in our relationships has a powerful influence on our health.”   We invited Dr. Doug Clement to join us for a Conversation That Matters about his recipe for a life well-lived.   Join me Feb 21 for Conversations Live - A Vancouver Sun Town Hall: Can we solve the Rental Housing Puzzle?   If you love communications and speech writing you'll gain valuable insights from Presidential SpeechWriting which I narrated. Here’s the link

Ep 439 - A Recipe for a Life Well-Lived Guest: Dr. Doug Clement “May you live long and prosper” (“dif-tor-heh”) is an idiom from a Jewish term and is popularly attributed to Commander Spock of Star Trek. While that may be so, it is also an apt description of the life of Dr. Doug Clement. “The questions,” asks Clement, “is how do you do both? Live long and prosper?” The average life expectancy in British Columbia is just north of 82 years. “So living long isn’t the issue,” says Clement, “but living long isn’t a guarantee [that] you will live well, especially when you cross the 60-year mark.” According to Clement, there are a plethora of factors that contribute to wellness. He says they include “physical and mental fitness, an ongoing sense of purpose and contribution, a sufficient amount of money to alleviate financial stress, and happiness.” Clement also points to the findings of the Grant Study of Adult Development, a Harvard program that tracked the lives of 238 people between 1938 and 2000, which states, “The surprising finding is that our relationships and how happy we are in our relationships has a powerful influence on our health.” We invited Dr. Doug Clement to join us for a Conversation That Matters about his recipe for a life well-lived. Join me Feb 21 for Conversations Live - A Vancouver Sun Town Hall: Can we solve the Rental Housing Puzzle? If you love communications and speech writing you'll gain valuable insights from Presidential SpeechWriting which I narrated. Here’s the <a href="https://www.audible.ca/pd/Presidential-Speechwriting-From-the-New-Deal-to-the-Reagan-Revolution-and-Beyond-Audiobook/B07P615KKD?qid=1665514031&amp;sr=1-1&amp;ref=a_search_c3_lProduct_1_1&amp;pf_rd_p=b278ed0a-c3b2-4491-808c-7cb2190a487c&amp;pf_rd_r=PRD9A2VV24MYTQ993T33" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">link</a>

Ep 439 - A Recipe for a Life Well-Lived  Guest: Dr. Doug Clement

Hayward Field

The World Athletics Championships are underway in Eugene, Oregon at Hayward Field.  This historic venue celebrated its 100th birthday last year, and has housed the University of Oregon track and field program throughout the century. Canadian Olympian Doug Clement attended the University of Oregon and trained under famed coach Bill Bowerman.In this episode, we speak with Doug about his experience at Hayward Field, both as an athlete and lifelong fan and builder of our sport. From Steve Prefontaine, to Bowerman, to Nike, this legendary stadium is home to some of the most prolific elements of track and field. Learn more about The Shakeout Podcast and Canadian Running Magazine on our website https://runningmagazine.ca/category/shakeout-podcast/Follow The Shakeout Podcast on Twitter https://twitter.com/ShakeoutPodcastInstagram https://www.instagram.com/shakeoutpodcast/ andFacebook https://www.facebook.com/theshakeoutpodcast/Subscribe to our weekly show on Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-shakeout-podcast/id1224828899243

The World Athletics Championships are underway in Eugene, Oregon at Hayward Field.  This historic venue celebrated its 100th birthday last year, and has housed the University of Oregon track and field program throughout the century. Canadian Olympian Doug Clement attended the University of Oregon and trained under famed coach Bill Bowerman.In this episode, we speak with Doug about his experience at Hayward Field, both as an athlete and lifelong fan and builder of our sport. From Steve Prefontaine, to Bowerman, to Nike, this legendary stadium is home to some of the most prolific elements of track and field. Learn more about The Shakeout Podcast and Canadian Running Magazine on our website <a href="https://runningmagazine.ca/category/shakeout-podcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://runningmagazine.ca/category/shakeout-podcast/</a>Follow The Shakeout Podcast on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/ShakeoutPodcast" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://twitter.com/ShakeoutPodcast</a> Instagram <a href="https://www.instagram.com/shakeoutpodcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.instagram.com/shakeoutpodcast/</a> and Facebook <a href="https://www.facebook.com/theshakeoutpodcast/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.facebook.com/theshakeoutpodcast/</a>Subscribe to our weekly show on Apple Podcasts <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-shakeout-podcast/id1224828899243" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/the-shakeout-podcast/id1224828899243</a>

Olympian Doug Clement on The Magic of Hayward Field

Erick Knezek

Erick Knezek, Navy veteran and founder of Oceanetics, Inc, ,  joined Jan Swift of Discover Lafayette to discuss his company’s newest FDA approved COVID-19 medical device, the NRSAVR-100, otherwise known as the “nurse saver.” The device was developed with the expertise of Dr. Doug Clement, an ER doctor affiliated with Our Lady of Lourdes in Lafayette, who is currently treating COVID patients, was instrumental in starting the virus screening program at the Cajundome, and has helped develop methods for testing and keeping healthcare workers safe. Dr. Clement and Knezek are personal friends and discussed the hazards healthcare workers face when treating COVID patients, as well as the rapid rate in which the hospitals’ PPE (personal protective equipment) is depleted as staff move from room to room.  In a typical scenario when a patient is intubated, the physician wears an intubation hood (“splash shield”) for protection from the potential release of droplets from the patient’s airways, but the support staff surrounding the doctor are still subjected to the aerosolized virus particles.  A concurrent and expensive need in hospitals treating COVID patients is to have sufficient isolation rooms that keep the patient from spreading the disease to others. Negative pressure rooms are utilized to maintain lower air pressure inside the room so as to keep contaminated air from escaping into non-contaminated areas and infecting others. These rooms are expensive and in relatively short supply. With guidance from Dr. Clement, Knezek created a design for the nurse saver to create a closed air system that surrounds the cephalic region (head, neck, and shoulders) of the patient with plexiglass and rubber barriers. The device has two valves that pump in air from the hospital’s ventilation system but keep contaminated air from being released back into the room. Six rubber shrouds contain armholes so that healthcare workers can stick their arms in to access the patient to intubate, hook up monitors, insert tubes, or deliver medications without breaking the seal. The contaminants are sucked out by the nurse saver which filters the contaminated air. The design was tweaked a bit after testing and the final prototype has received FDA Emergency Use Authorization. Dr. Doug Clement demonstrating how the NRSAVR-100 (“nurse saver”) effectively seals in contaminated air exhaled by COVID-19 patients. Photo by Leslie Westbrook of the Advocate. Combining the nurse saver with PPE the staff wears dramatically increases the workers’ safety. As a comparison, when a patient is on a ventilator, the air is exhaled into the room, thus necessitating a negative pressure room to prevent contamination of the space. Utilizing the nurse saver affords a much more cost-effective solution ($3000 versus the cost of converting space into negative pressure rooms), allows the patient to be transported within the hospital, and eliminates the need for staff to change PPE at every room entry and exit.  The device also allows the patient to be flipped to lay on their stomach (proning), to help keep the patient’s lungs open.   The first few of the nurse savers have been given to Lafayette General Health and feedback is being provided. The nurse saver is the only negative pressure cephalic environment device on the market at this time. While there have been no sales yet, Knezek expressed his hope that the medical community will see the exceptional value the device provides and its ability to increase isolation capacity 100 fold. For more information on the nurse saver, visit https://www.intubationhood.com/ or https://www.oceanetics.com/. Knezek is a graduate of Lafayette High and the US Naval Academy who earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Ocean Engineering. He served in the Navy as a Seabee Officer deployed in Bosnia-Herzegovina as a dive officer, with a focus on anti-terrorism infrastructure and port security barrier development and installation. His last two years in the Navy were after the USS Cole bombing in Yemen and the attacks of 9/11. With over  24 years of ocean engineering, fabrication, and marine installation experience serving the Department of Defense engineering needs, Knezek is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Systems Engineering at UL Lafayette. From 2015 through 2019, Erick Knezek served as the Lafayette Parish School Board Member for District 8, where he served as Vice-President and President. “My service on the school board is one of the things I am most proud of. It tops my list of accomplishments.” We thank Erick Knezek for his service to our community and for his contributions to medical science and ocean engineering. 

Erick Knezek, Navy veteran and founder of Oceanetics, Inc, , joined Jan Swift of Discover Lafayette to discuss his company’s newest FDA approved COVID-19 medical device, the NRSAVR-100, otherwise known as the “nurse saver.” The device was developed with the expertise of Dr. Doug Clement, an ER doctor affiliated with Our Lady of Lourdes in Lafayette, who is currently treating COVID patients, was instrumental in starting the virus screening program at the Cajundome, and has helped develop methods for testing and keeping healthcare workers safe. Dr. Clement and Knezek are personal friends and discussed the hazards healthcare workers face when treating COVID patients, as well as the rapid rate in which the hospitals’ PPE (personal protective equipment) is depleted as staff move from room to room. In a typical scenario when a patient is intubated, the physician wears an intubation hood (“splash shield”) for protection from the potential release of droplets from the patient’s airways, but the support staff surrounding the doctor are still subjected to the aerosolized virus particles. A concurrent and expensive need in hospitals treating COVID patients is to have sufficient isolation rooms that keep the patient from spreading the disease to others. Negative pressure rooms are utilized to maintain lower air pressure inside the room so as to keep contaminated air from escaping into non-contaminated areas and infecting others. These rooms are expensive and in relatively short supply. With guidance from Dr. Clement, Knezek created a design for the nurse saver to create a closed air system that surrounds the cephalic region (head, neck, and shoulders) of the patient with plexiglass and rubber barriers. The device has two valves that pump in air from the hospital’s ventilation system but keep contaminated air from being released back into the room. Six rubber shrouds contain armholes so that healthcare workers can stick their arms in to access the patient to intubate, hook up monitors, insert tubes, or deliver medications without breaking the seal. The contaminants are sucked out by the nurse saver which filters the contaminated air. The design was tweaked a bit after testing and the final prototype has received FDA Emergency Use Authorization. Dr. Doug Clement demonstrating how the NRSAVR-100 (“nurse saver”) effectively seals in contaminated air exhaled by COVID-19 patients. Photo by Leslie Westbrook of the Advocate. Combining the nurse saver with PPE the staff wears dramatically increases the workers’ safety. As a comparison, when a patient is on a ventilator, the air is exhaled into the room, thus necessitating a negative pressure room to prevent contamination of the space. Utilizing the nurse saver affords a much more cost-effective solution ($3000 versus the cost of converting space into negative pressure rooms), allows the patient to be transported within the hospital, and eliminates the need for staff to change PPE at every room entry and exit. The device also allows the patient to be flipped to lay on their stomach (proning), to help keep the patient’s lungs open. The first few of the nurse savers have been given to Lafayette General Health and feedback is being provided. The nurse saver is the only negative pressure cephalic environment device on the market at this time. While there have been no sales yet, Knezek expressed his hope that the medical community will see the exceptional value the device provides and its ability to increase isolation capacity 100 fold. For more information on the nurse saver, visit <a href="https://www.intubationhood.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.intubationhood.com/</a> or <a href="https://www.oceanetics.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.oceanetics.com/</a>. Knezek is a graduate of Lafayette High and the US Naval Academy who earned a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Ocean Engineering. He served in the Navy as a Seabee Officer deployed in Bosnia-Herzegovina as a dive officer, with a focus on anti-terrorism infrastructure and port security barrier development and installation. His last two years in the Navy were after the USS Cole bombing in Yemen and the attacks of 9/11. With over 24 years of ocean engineering, fabrication, and marine installation experience serving the Department of Defense engineering needs, Knezek is currently a Ph.D. Candidate in Systems Engineering at UL Lafayette. From 2015 through 2019, Erick Knezek served as the Lafayette Parish School Board Member for District 8, where he served as Vice-President and President. “My service on the school board is one of the things I am most proud of. It tops my list of accomplishments.” We thank Erick Knezek for his service to our community and for his contributions to medical science and ocean engineering.

Erick Knezek of Oceanetics: Creator of COVID-19 Nurse Saver with Dr. Doug Clement