Internet
Resources for Respiratory Therapy
Associations
American Lung Association
American Association for Respiratory Care
American
Thoracic Society
American Heart Association
American College of Chest Physicians
National Board of Respiratory Care
Respiratory
Care Board of California
The National Emphysema Foundation
Online Publications and Journals
Advance News Magazine for Respiratory Care Practitioners
American Journal of Respiratory and Critical Care Medicine
American Journal of Respiratory Cell and
Molecular Biology
Proceedings
of the American Thoracic Society
Goverment Resources
The National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute
National Institute of Health
Center
for Disease Control
Below are
links to various
sites with helpful information and videos about airway management and
intubation procedures including the latest devices for performing oral
intubations:
MedCalc: Acid-Base Calculator
A-a Oxygen Gradient Online Clinical Calculator
Division of General Medicine
Medical College of Wisconsin
Airway Management/Secretion Removal
A
Page On... Lung Sounds Online (Grady Branch Library and Emory Hospital
Library of the Health Sciences Library, Emory University School of
Medicine.)
Dr.Magboul's Airway Page (Magboul M. Ali
Magboul, FFARCSI, MD)
Fiberoptic Bronchoscope Guided Endotracheal
Intubation
by Keith J Ruskin, MD and Richard Sommer, MD
Intubation Procedure by
Keith Littlewood, MD
University of Virginia
Health System
iVillage
Total Health / Allergy and Asthma
Orotracheal Intubation - Author: Gisele de
Azevedo Prazeres, MD
Res-Q-Tech / Res-Q-Scope Video Capture - Click on
Play Video
RESPIRATORY DISEASE by Ed Friedlander, M.D.,
Pathologist
Society for Airway Management - Videos from
Clarus Medical LLC
The Virtual Anesthesia Textbook - Airway
Management
Virtual
Airway Device - Intubation Techniques and Tutorials
University
of
Florida Department of Anethesiology
Other interesting sites to visit
Fire
Channel
WebMD
Virtual Hospital / Virtual Children's
Hospital
SearchingRadiology.com
RadiologyEducation.com
PediatricRadiology.com
Lung Sounds
The R.A.L.E.S. Repository
RTCorner.Net,
the website for respiratory therapists,
by respiratory therapists!
Anesthesiologist Assistant
AnestaWeb - Anesthesiologist Assistant Educational Program Comparisons
Anesthesiologist Assistant Resource Website
Jefferson College of Health Sciences
Respiratory Therapist/Paramedic to Assiociates Degree in Nursing program
Interactive Oxyhemoblobin Dissociation Curve by Nielufar
Varjavand, MD
Department of
Medicine
Medical College of Pennsylvania, East Falls
Pulmonary Shunt - Interactive Shunt Table (click NEXT)
Dr. Herbert Patrick, MD, MS
Director of Medical Intensive Care Unit
Hahnemann University Hospital
Philadelphia, PA
Check
this out... cool video about how the heart works from iVillage Total
Health
How the Heart Works - (Go scroll down to "Animations and Illustrations")
ECMO (Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation)
Volumetric Diffusive Ventilation (VDR)
Percussionaire Corporation
RESPIRATORY DISEASE by Ed Friedlander, M.D.,
Pathologist
Managing patients with suspected pulmonary
embolism by Andrea M. Forgione, MHS, PA-C
Journal of the American Academy of Physician Assistants
The Profile of Forrest M. Bird, M.D., PhD.,
ScD.
Inventor of the Medical Respirator
Lab Tests Online
A public resource on clinical lab testing from laboratory professionals
who the testing
John Hopkins School of Medicine's
Interactive Respiratory Physiology
The Interactive Patient
Marshall University Joan C. Edwards School of Medicine
Acid Base Tutorial by "Grog" (Alan W. Grogono)
Tulane University Department of Anesthesiology
Video Assisted Thoracoscopy Lung Resection(OR-Live)
Courtesy of http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/lungdiseases.html#cat63
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