As a Respiratory Therapist, learning about lung disease is a lifelong endeavor. While you are in RT school, you will be introduced to a myriad of conditions. Learning and understanding some of these diagnoses will come easy […]
If you’ve been around respiratory care or pulmonary medicine any length of time, you are likely very familiar with the idea of both lung compliance and airways resistance. The concept of compliance is arguably the […]
It is obvious that positive pressure ventilation (PPV) is not a normal way to breathe, and for many years we have known that the longer someone remains on PPV, the more likely damage to the […]
Pulmonary diseases can be very sneaky, developing subtly over time with very little outward signs or symptoms. When these diseases are underrecognized and undertreated it can lead to increased damage to the lungs, faster progression of […]
So here we are… not another formula, right? No worries. This one is actually quite straight forward and relatively easy to work out. The tricky part lies in the interpretation of the result – isn’t […]
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