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Featured Buzz Jan. 20

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RC Currents

This edition of RC Currents explores PDT tracheostomy, alarm fatigue, and new CAPTURE tool. Catch up on these currents.

Pulmonary Disease Educator Course

About This Course This program is designed to assist health care providers improve their pulmonary disease education knowledge and skill in an effort to improve long-term pulmonary disease care and improve patient quality of life. At the conclusion of this program, the participant will be able to identify key components of pulmonary disease education and … Continued

COPD: See the Silver Lining and Go for the Gold

About This Course RTs interact with patients with COPD from initial diagnosis throughout the life of the patient. It is important for RTs to not only understand the etiology of the disease, the underlying physiology of the disease, and how it is diagnosed but also what available treatment interventions should be used based upon published … Continued

Featured Buzz Feb. 7

By Debbie Bunch February 7, 2025  Genetic Test for COPD in the Works COPD is an underdiagnosed condition but finding people among the general public who have the disease so that early treatment can begin has been a challenge. U.S. researchers who published their findings in JAMA believe a simple and low-cost genetic test could improve … Continued

Featured Buzz Dec. 9

By Debbie Bunch  Daily Urine Tests May Predict COPD Exacerbations  A simple urine test may one day be able to predict a COPD exacerbation, report researchers from the U.K. who published their findings in ERJ Open Research.  The investigators began by analyzing urine samples from 55 COPD patients to look for changes in their urine … Continued

RC Currents

Every other week we bring you some of the current trends in respiratory care. This week we discuss blood tests, health disparities, and more.

Featured Buzz October 6, 2025

By Debbie Bunch October 6, 2025  Group Singing Improves Quality of Life for COPD PatientsAustralian researchers presenting at the recent European Respiratory Society Congress in Amsterdam reported promising results for a group singing initiative aimed at improving quality of life and respiratory symptoms among patients with chronic lung disease. The randomized controlled study involved 101 participants, … Continued

Featured Buzz Feb. 24

By Debbie Bunch February 24, 2025  Menthol Cigarettes Up Mortality RisksPublic health groups have been trying to ban menthol from cigarettes for decades, claiming the additive not only encourages people to start smoking but hinders them from quitting. New research from the American Cancer Society suggests menthol cigarettes also raise the mortality risk for some current … Continued

Featured Buzz Jan. 20

By Debbie Bunch  January 20, 2025  DPI Triple Inhaler Therapy May Outperform MDI Triple Inhaler Therapy  Researchers from the U.S. and Canada who compared outcomes for two commonly prescribed triple inhaler therapies for COPD in a study published by BMJ found one marginally outperformed the other.   The research involved U.S. health claims data from 2012-2023 … Continued

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