Articles tagged with: Patient Care
September 19, 2018
Should Family Members Participate in ICU Rounds?
The ICU is a stressful place for families. The sight of so much equipment, alarms going off, and the hustle of clinicians in and out of the space can leave anyone feeling anxious and confused. A growing number of hospitals have started to include family members in the daily ICU rounds that take place on... Read more »
September 11, 2018
Commit to Improving Patient Safety
Safety is the fundamental foundation to delivering quality patient care. No matter your role, you play a vital part in ensuring patients receive this standard of care. In partnership with the Patient Safety Movement Foundation, the AARC encourages all members to commit to improving patient safety. Commit to Safety AARC Members Kevin McQueen, MHA, RRT,... Read more »
August 29, 2018
Educating Youth about the Dangers of Smoking
Smoking cigarettes has always had a certain appeal to children anxious to try out perceived adult behaviors. But picking up the habit in childhood can have lasting – and devastating – effects. Respiratory therapists can play a big role in making sure fewer children take up the habit and end up with a smoking-related disease.... Read more »
August 22, 2018
Patient Advocacy Summit Sets Focus on Improving Care
Enable cookies to see embeded content. The value of the annual Patient Advocacy Summit takes focus in this episode of Big Ideas Theater. Amber Galer, BS, RRT, discusses the 2017 summit and explains how the annual summits are rooted in the needs of the patients. According to Galer, the Summit gives patients a chance to... Read more »
August 15, 2018
Lung Therapy Set to Music
The Austin-based Harmonicas for Health group at the Respiratory Patient Advocacy Summit in San Antonio, TX. Kitty Collins, BHS, RRT, a respiratory therapist at St. David’s Medical Center in Austin, TX, set her patients’ lung exercises to a unique rhythm through their music therapy program. As part of the COPD Foundation’s Harmonicas for Health program,... Read more »
August 1, 2018
Delivering 360 Degree Patient Care: Empowerment, Finding Connections, & Giant Microbes!
Caring for the “whole” patient means many different things to many different people. But the bottom line for all is ensuring patients receive the compassionate care they need to heal. In our final 360 Degree Patient Care article, two RTs explain how they take their whole patient into account during the delivery of respiratory care. The... Read more »
July 19, 2018
How RTs Can Help Battle Occupational Asthma
According to a recent report from the CDC, 33,307 people between the ages of 15 and 64 died from asthma between 1999 and 2016. What caused those deaths? For an estimated 3,664-6,994 of them, an occupational exposure to a hazardous substance may have been to blame. Men working in food, beverage, and tobacco products manufacturing;... Read more »
July 11, 2018
Big Ideas Theater, Episode 16: Portable Oxygen Concentrators
Enable cookies to see embeded content. In this episode of Big Ideas Theater, Kim Wiles, BS, RRT, CPFT, FAARC, vice president of Respiratory Services, discusses portable oxygen concentrators and the importance of knowing their limitations. Portable Oxygen Concentrators Guide According to Wiles, oxygen delivery is different in the home, where pulse delivery is used instead... Read more »
July 11, 2018
What RTs Can Do to Keep Smokers from Losing Hope
Quitting smoking is the hardest thing many people will ever try to do in their lives, and most of them have to make multiple attempts before they are successful. Ensuring these smokers don’t lose hope during the prolonged journey toward tobacco freedom can be hard for clinicians like respiratory therapists. Two RTs who specialize in... Read more »
July 3, 2018
PFTs in Children: Which Interface is Best?
Performing pulmonary function tests in young children can pose special challenges, in part because they don’t like the mouthpiece and noseclips required for many of the tests. A recent study in the Journal of Cystic Fibrosis found the facemask could be a more child-friendly option for the multiple breath washout (MBW) test, which is often... Read more »
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