Respiratory Therapist

Symptoms of lung cancer and emphysema include increased breathlessness, wheezing, coughing and increase mucus production. Find out why vital signs may be normal in a patient with lung cancer with help from a nurse and respiratory care practitioner in this free video on respiratory therapy and healthy breathing.

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Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (Nasdaq: ALNY), a leading RNAi therapies, announced today that it has initiated a Phase IIb clinical study in lung transplant recipients with ALN-RSV01 adults RNAi therapeutic for the treatment of virus virus respiratory syncytial (RSV). RSV infection in patients undergoing lung transplantation is a high unmet medical needs, the condition is associated with significant morbidity, including the development of acute rejection in lung transplantation from 10% to 20% of infected patients. Patients undergoing lung transplantation during RSV infection are at risk of increased incidence of the syndrome of new or progressive bronchiolitis obliterans (BOS), a potentially fatal complication, which is a fatal disease of the lung transplant that causes about 50 deaths % in three to five years of operation. Read the rest of this entry »

Blood pressure cuffs have an inner layer of rubber that wraps around the upper part of the arm, and the outside part is usually made out of nylon. Find out why cuff size is important when taking someone’s blood pressure with help from a nurse and respiratory care practitioner in this free video on blood pressure.

The severe shortage of intensive care physicians have received specific training in hospital intensive care unit (ICU), who struggles between national unity, composed with the teams managed by the ICU resuscitation, despite the presence of these specially trained physicians has reduced the risk of death for patients in ICU. A new report from Penn Medicine found that intensivist-led teams replaced by groups of multidisciplinary care can also reduce the risk of death in intensive care units. The study is published in the February 22 edition of Archives of Internal Medicine. Read the rest of this entry »

Morton Grove Senior Citizen taxpayers over the age of 60 are eligible for the free income tax returns through AARP Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program every Monday, Wednesday and Friday morning in Morton Grove Senior Center. Read the rest of this entry »

Yeah, its dumb…but I was bored. This is a PARODY of a Nurse describing Respiratory Therapy to visiting student. It reflects some of the actual nursing attitudes and opinions I've experienced working as an RT over the last 22-years. Enjoy.