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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 Comparison
s

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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