Beyond-Albuterol

Reading Time: 3 minutes Biphasic Cuirass Ventilation (BCV) is a plastic chest cuirass shell that uses a pressure source capable of providing both positive and negative pressure.

Reading Time: 3 minutes To diagnose COPD, a person must perform spirometry. When looking at data from the VA only 56% of patients diagnosed with COPD in the hospital had ever shown evidence of obstruction on spirometry.

Reading Time: 3 minutes In critically ill patients, the presence of a persistent air leak complicates ventilator management and is challenging. Here are the keys to winning the battle…

Reading Time: < 1 minute High frequency percussive ventilation can be intimidating to initiate but with these quick guides and go to operational sheets the pneumatics can be conquered.

Reading Time: 5 minutes Waveform interpretation made easy by an expert Respiratory Therapist

Reading Time: 3 minutes Unfortunately, due to the forced nature of FVC, patients with obstructive lung disease can be under-diagnosed. But what if there was a better way?

Reading Time: 3 minutes The time has finally come to extubate your patient. The question is, what should you extubate your patient to? Nasal cannula, NIV, HFNC?

Reading Time: 2 minutes Acclimatization is the term used to describe the incredible adaptive response of those exposed to prolonged and extreme environmental hypoxia.

Reading Time: 3 minutes SpO2/FiO2 ratio is a non-invasive alternative marker to PaO2/FiO2 for Type I Respiratory Failure (hypoxemic).

Reading Time: 3 minutes VDR, Volumetric Diffusive Respiration, is a pneumatically driven pressure-limited and time-cycled ventilator that provides high-frequency percussive ventilation (HFPV)