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Featured Buzz April 14, 2025

By Debbie Bunch April 7, 2025  New AI-Driven Model Predicts Sepsis in the ICU Researchers from China working with a colleague in Spain believe they have developed an AI-powered sepsis model capable of predicting who in the ICU will develop sepsis much more quickly and accurately than standard scoring systems like APACHE-II. The two-stage Transformer-based model … Continued

Featured Buzz Nov.18

Featured Buzz By Debbie Bunch November 18, 2024 Asthma May Impact Cognitive Abilities in Children Children with asthma may be at increased risk for memory and executive function difficulties, find researchers publishing in JAMA Open Network. The study, which was carried out by investigators from the University of California Davis, involved children taking part in … Continued

AARC Election 2025 — Hayfa Shakkour Perez

Sleep Chair Hayfa Shakkour Perez Cardiopulmonary Supervisor UPMC Wellsboro AARC Member Since: 2001 AARC Activities: AARC Congress 2023, SPOTY Award Recipient for Sleep Medicine Affiliate Activities: 8th Annual Sleep Loss and Disorders 2016 CPAP Basics Pulmonary Rehabilitation- COPD support 2017 Living with COPD and OSA Geisinger Woodbine Lane 2017 PAP Trials & Intervention PSRC Spring … Continued

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

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.