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Advances in Respiratory Therapy

Veterinary Clinics of North America: Small Animal Practice, 2007
Effective respiratory therapy depends on obtaining a definitive diagnosis and following established recommendations for treatment. Unfortunately, many respiratory conditions are idiopathic in origin or are attributable to nonspecific inflammation. In some situations, disorders are controlled rather than cured.
Elizabeth A, Rozanski   +2 more
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Oxygen Therapy in Respiratory Failure

New England Journal of Medicine, 1967
THE goal of oxygen therapy in respiratory failure should be the correction of hypoxia to a safe level without significant enhancement of respiratory acidosis. Conventional methods of administering oxygen have been modified in attempts to achieve this goal.
J C, Mithoefer, M S, Karetzky, G D, Mead
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Helium in Respiratory Therapy

JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1978
To the Editor.— A misconception about helium in one of the answers on the use of helium in respiratory therapy (238:1957, 1977) has also been widely distributed for many years by a commercial source. This misconception is a minor point, but it is perhaps useful to set the record straight. Once a nebulized mist has been generated, use of helium has no
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Rational Respiratory Therapy

New England Journal of Medicine, 1986
The unplanned shift from the cost-reimbursement method of paying for all medical services to fixed-dollar allowances has created a need to look critically at what we are doing in our entire health care delivery system. The burgeoning field of respiratory therapy was quickly targeted as a likely example of undisciplined practices and excesses, for ...
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Respiratory Infections and Antimicrobial Therapy

Otolaryngologic Clinics of North America, 1961
Staphylococcal Infections PARADOXICALLY, although many antibiotics originally effective against staphylococci have been developed, serious staphylococcal infections are becoming increasingly common. Two major factors appear to be involved. First is the more frequent use of hospitals for care of patients with major illnesses and childbirth.
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Respiratory medicine and respiratory therapy

2008
Abstract The aim of this chapter is to provide examples for using simulation and skills based teaching methods focusing on the respiratory care of patients. It is intended for all health specialties that provide respiratory care of patients, and provides examples to facilitate undergraduate and postgraduate learning.
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Respiratory therapy

Abstract This chapter covers techniques used for respiratory support in the intensive care unit with sections on airway support, invasive and non-invasive ventilation, oxygen delivery systems, tracheotomy, pleural drainage, and physiotherapy.
Alice Carter, Mervyn Singer, Andrew Webb
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Productivity of Respiratory Therapy Personnel

Respiratory Care, 1979
An analysis was conducted of 630 periodic observations of work activities of 10 respiratory therapy personnel of a department during 14 consecutive days. It was found that the staff were spending about one-third of their working hours non-productively. The natures of the productive activities related to patient care were identified
T A, Conine, P, Neff
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Therapy for Recurrent Respiratory Papillomatosis

Antiviral Therapy, 2002
Human papillomaviruses types 6 or 11 are aetiological agents of recurrent respiratory papillomatosis, a disease characterized by benign exophytic tumours usually on the vocal cords. Surgery debulks the tumours, but these growths generally recur at regular intervals.
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Therapy of the Respiratory Distress Syndrome

Pediatric Clinics of North America, 1972
Other than preventing prematurity and avoiding perinatal insults, the treatment of neonatal respiratory distress syndrome is aimed at the correction of the derangements which have resulted from its occurrence. Approaches to therapy are better made in terms of physiologic principles involved in supporting and maintaining homeostasis for the affected ...
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