Your Patient Needs a Wheelchair, Now What?! Equipping Pediatric Patients For Success

This course will equip students and clinicians with the foundational knowledge needed to complete Seating and Mobility evaluations. Together, we will walk through the steps required for successful completion of the entire ordering process from evaluation to delivery. We will share our collaborative approach to meeting the Seating and Mobility needs of our patients to allow attendees to integrate what we have learned at MCJCH at Vanderbilt into any size practice. This course will highlight the most utilized adaptive equipment in pediatrics and discuss the clinical decision-making process for determining equipment solutions for pediatric patients. We will demonstrate how we have improved efficiency to streamline the documentation process, our methods for writing letters of medical necessity, and how to confront denial letters. Attendees will be educated on the ethics of equipment selection and learn how to implement a successful seating and mobility clinic of their own. This course is tailored for an attendee of any skill level to learn new ideas and considerations for adaptive equipment. This course is perfect for those new to equipment or those looking to better conduct evaluations or create letters of medical necessity.