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Posted in: Blog Posts in Asthma
It's becoming that time of year for another bout of respiratory problems, the allergy season. This time of year brings on the great problem called Hay Fever and there are mor ...
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Posted in: Blog Posts in Asthma
I'm posting this to reach out for a family I know who is having hard times right now with medical problems. The mother of this family is having to deal with her 9 year old so ...
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Posted in: Blog Posts in Asthma
I was recently reading through the April 2009 AARC journal magazine and there were predictions on different health care topic which would affect RT's. One I saw that interest ...
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Tonight I had a patient I was assessing for out therapy driven protocols and was reading this person's xray and I noticed a word I have never came across before in my medical ...
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Doctors are a interesting bunch, there are good ones, interesting ones, bad ones, ones we are not sure how they got through medical school but overall they are a interesting b ...
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I ran across this article and thought is was interesting: COLORADO MAN TO BE THE FIRST COPD OXYGEN PATIENT ALLOWED TO RUN IN BOSTON MARATHON! Its about a man who is oxygen dep ...
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We are not in a time of year where there seems to be a larger than usual amount of Pneumonia cases coming into my hospital. There are many different types of pneumonia out the ...
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Just a quick note of something that I think needs to be implemented for the humane treatment of older adults who would happen to have their heart stop beating: "Anyone ov ...
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I ran across this video of a rabbits lungs being ventilated outside of the body, yes not rabbit just the lungs, and it show the expansion of the lungs after different levels o ...
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One of the problems with small town hospitals is that there are usually only one specialist in a certain field. In our field as Respiratory Therapist we use the the pulmonolo ...
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I've been gone for awhile, I started taking classes again and just got myself busy trying to get back into this school thing and realized I missed having a outlet to post thin ...
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Have you ever caught yourself watching a movie or TV show, where there are hospital scenes, looking for respiratory related things in the show? Finding something done correctl ...
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We always warn patients not to smoke with their oxygen running at the same time. Why? Because it's damn flammable!!! Well there is a lady in Michigan who not only didn't h ...
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So what makes a person want to become a Respiratory Therapist (RT)? This isn't a job that most people think of to go to college for in high school, I know it wasn't mine beca ...
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Well I noticed reading at RT Cave that he is in a smaller hospital were they are not just implementing RT Protocols, well here at my small hospital we are now just starting to ...
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Well first posting on this blog, just wanted to say a little about me as a Therapist. I've been a RT for 10 years now, received my training at Ft. Sam Houston in San Antonio T ...
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As you might have noticed that this blog is just ideas that come into my head or interesting things that I come across at my place of work. The idea behind "Different Hospita ...
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A patient comes into the ER the other night with complaint of chest pain so I'm called down to do a EKG on the 35 year old with chest pain. I get into the room start to do th ...
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I was thinking the other day that it would be nice to be able to read a chest xray better than I currently can so I set off to find some information on looking at different xr ...
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I was out just searching around the old Internet when I ran across this discussion: Respiratory Therapist VS Nursing and it got me to thinking of the differences between the t ...
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