Reading Time: 3 minutes While the harmful effects of tissue hypoxia are clearly understood, over-correction leads to tissue hyperoxia, which may also be hazardous.
Respiratory Therapy
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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.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes One of the main problems with asthma, is the overreliance of asthmatic patients using albuterol for symptom relief, which has been confounded by the lack of compliance with maintenance medication use.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes It doesn’t look like a trach you have ever seen before. That’s because the patient had laryngeal cancer and required a total laryngectomy.
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Reading Time: 3 minutes It is one of the basic settings dialed in when a patient is on the ventilator. Positive end-expiratory pressure (PEEP) is a critical asset used in conjunction with mechanical ventilation.
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Reading Time: 5 minutes Learn the basics of spirometry from our expert Respiratory Therapists in our first post of the RT Series!