by Sherian Kington | Sep 30, 2025 | US, Canada
Celebrating the History of Respiratory Care Respiratory Care Practitioners (RCP) are an integral part of a healthcare team. RCPs aid in disease prevention through pulmonary disease awareness and education. RCPs specialize in the diagnosis and care of chronic, as well...
by Sherian Kington | Aug 29, 2025 | Canada, US
Artificial Intelligence in Pulmonary Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a hot, and controversial, topic of conversation. Its applications in medicine are in the early stages, however, AI is not new. In 1950, a paper was published titled “Computer Machinery and...
by Sherian Kington | Aug 1, 2025 | Canada, US
Understanding Methacholine Chloride For most Respiratory Therapists, and other health care workers in pulmonary diagnostics, methacholine chloride is a common, well-known bronchoprovocation agent. Provocholine® is the only FDA cleared methacholine chloride available...
by Sherian Kington | Jun 27, 2025 | Canada, US
Broken Heart Syndrome What is “broken heart syndrome?” The medical term for broken heart syndrome is Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy. It was first described in 1990 by a Japanese physician, Dr. Hikaru Sato. He described a series of patients who presented as if they were...
by Sherian Kington | May 30, 2025 | Canada, US
Putting a Face to Supplemental Oxygen and the SOAR Act My sister and I have Primary Ciliary Dyskinesia (PCD) and Bronchiectasis. In June of 2013 we were prescribed supplemental oxygen. My sister needed it 24/7 and I needed it for exertion. At that time, my sister had...
