Category: Department Management

Department Management

8 Considerations for Delivering Oxygen Therapy to COPD Patients

As COPD progresses, a combination of pathological changes occur in the lungs which necessitate oxygen therapy, which may be delivered in both the acute care and home care settings.

Department Management

NIH to Host Virtual Workshop on Nutrition’s Role in Respiratory Health

The NIH’s Division of Lung Diseases will gather experts for a two-day virtual workshop to explore the role of nutrition in respiratory health and address key research challenges and opportunities.

Department Management

The Promise and Challenges of ECMO

ECMO outperforms traditional CPR for certain cardiac arrest patients, a new meta-analysis revealed. But ECMO's large-scale implementation would require substantial considerations.

Clinical

Eliminating Racial Bias in Spirometry/PFT Interpretation

Industry research has highlighted the potential of racial bias in the interpretation of spirometry and other PFT that can lead to delayed care (or lack of care) in Black patients.

Education

NBRC Invests $4M into Accredited RT Programs

More than 450 CoARC-accredited respiratory care educational programs will each receive $10,000 to use toward scholarships for current and future RTs.

Conferences & CEU

Medtrade 2023 to Consolidate East and West Conferences

Medtrade will consolidate the Medtrade East and Medtrade West shows into one conference in 2023.