Respiratory Care

Full Text / MultiMedia

• RT - The Journal for Respiratory Care Practitioners
  RT is a leading source of information for respiratory care practitioners. It provides clinical information, updates on trends, practical insights, business tips, and news on the latest product and services. RT covers clinical and current health care issues via in-depth facility profiles, case reports, and feature-length articles that address how health care issues ultimately will affect the respiratory care field.
• Flash Card Exchange - Respiratory
  Reviews of clinical topics with "clickable" questions and answers. The "flashcards" are posted by worldwide medical students as study tools.
• ADVANCE for Managers of Respiratory Care
  Online and print newsmagazine for reports on workplace trends. Contains reporting regularly on care provided in alternate sites, such as subacute and sleep disorders centers. Merion Publications, Inc.

Journals

• Respiratory Care Journal
  Full text articles, viewpoints, and questions about respiratory disease, research, clinical and laboratory practice, education, and management of resources. The official science journal of the American Association for Respiratory Care.

Major Sites / Home Pages

• VentWorld.com
  A premier source of ventilator product and supplier information, news, discussion, education, tools, and vent resources for the respiratory and critical care community.
• American Association for Respiratory Care
  AARC supports the education, development, and recognition of member respiratory therapists. This website includes membersip information, news updates, meeting announcements, practice guidelines, position statements, etc. plus an outline format review of basic topics for the entry level respiratory therapists.
• Pulmonary & Respiratory Medicine/Pulmonology Associations at Medbioworld
  A comprehensive directory of weblinks for associations in this specialty.
• Respiratory Products News
  A collection of articles and notes regarding clinical, education and commercial aspects of respiratory care.

Procedures

• Pulmonary Exam Video at North Carolina
  A well-designed video that familiarizes medical students with physicial examination steps in diagnosing disease conditions. University of North Carolina.
• The Auscultation Assistant
  A review of the interpretation of normal and abnormal heart sounds, heart murmurs, and breath sounds. The program helps medical students improve their physical diagnosis skills.

Practice Guidelines / FAQs

• Respiratory Care Journal Practice Guidelines
  Practical consensus approaches directed respiratory care practitioners. Collected by this journal which is the official science journal of the American Association for Respiratory Care.
• European Respiratory Society Guidelines For Physicians
  Guidelines that support respiratory medicine in Europe.
• Respiratory Care Clinical Practice Guidelines at New England Medical Center
  Policies, procedures, and guidelines at the Respiratory Care Program at New England Medical Center in Boston, MA.

Images, Path./Clinical

• Videos on the Interdisciplinary Approach to Pediatric Pulmonary Care
  Videos from the University of Arizona for health care professionals and students: "Overview of Pediatric Respiratory Disease", "Pulmonary Function Testing", etc.

CME

• Medscape Pulmonary Care CME
  REG A selection of free, continuously updated continuing education activities. Offers instant, printable CME certificates online. Medscape. Free registration.

Educational Materials

• RC_WORLD Respiratory Care Professionals Mail LIst
  A mailing list for respiratory care professionals. 700 plus subscribers. Archived.