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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 as acute pulmonary and cardiac diseases....
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 Intelligence.” In 1952 Arthur Samuel, a...
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 for the methacholine challenge test...
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 having a heart attack...
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 a 3 and 1-year-old at home. She was given oxygen tanks...
April showers bring May flowers and May also means we are recognizing World Asthma Day (WAD). WAD was first designated in May of 1998. Since then, the first Tuesday of May has a day of organized events to increase and improve asthma awareness around the world. The...