{"title":"Expanding technologies and responsibilities for respiratory care medical directors and practitioners.","authors":"R S Eisenberg","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An awareness of current economic factors is necessary for respiratory care medical directors and practitioners to understand their important new responsibilities. These include accurate documentation and cost analysis of every departmental activity so that clinical and fiscal considerations can be properly balanced. All procedures and purchases should be evaluated in light of medical necessity and cost. In this way, respiratory care can be provided in a manner that both maximizes patient care and reduces hospital costs.</p>","PeriodicalId":76941,"journal":{"name":"Respiratory therapy","volume":"16 6","pages":"75-8, 98"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21170343","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nonmedical citizen rescuers and the disposable, nonrefillable oxygen inhalator.","authors":"L M Starr","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>An opinion survey of directors of respiratory therapy departments was conducted to determine how these clinicians perceive the use of disposable, nonrefillable oxygen devices by nonmedical citizen rescuers. It points up what may be a common state of affairs: a lack of training and uncalibrated oxygen equipment.</p>","PeriodicalId":76941,"journal":{"name":"Respiratory therapy","volume":"16 6","pages":"89-92"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21148016","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A program for nonhospital management of ventilator-dependent patients.","authors":"R J Niemer","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The growing number of patients with pulmonary disease who cannot be weaned from mechanical ventilation makes necessary the development of programs enabling their transfer to an extended-care facility or to the home. A program developed at a midwestern hospital is bed here.</p>","PeriodicalId":76941,"journal":{"name":"Respiratory therapy","volume":"16 5","pages":"14-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21147347","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Home care and COPD: patient responsibility.","authors":"B V Branscomb, B P Weems","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease must understand and accept their responsibilities to obtain the benefits of a comprehensive home care program.</p>","PeriodicalId":76941,"journal":{"name":"Respiratory therapy","volume":"16 5","pages":"11-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21147344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Negative-pressure ventilatory support in the home.","authors":"M Flasch","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The Drinker tank-type body respiratory (iron lung) has given way to portable units that can be used in the home by patients with pulmonary insufficiency.</p>","PeriodicalId":76941,"journal":{"name":"Respiratory therapy","volume":"16 5","pages":"21-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21159065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Oximetry and home oxygen reimbursement.","authors":"J G Herman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Debate over use of invasive blood gas testing versus noninvasive oximetry to determine medical necessity for home oxygen has intensified since Health Care Financing Administration guidelines on reimbursement of home oxygen went into effect in October 1985.</p>","PeriodicalId":76941,"journal":{"name":"Respiratory therapy","volume":"16 5","pages":"26-31, 34, 36"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21170802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Los Robles Regional Medical Center, Department of Hyperbaric Medicine.","authors":"K Seago","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The hyperbaric medicine facility of this 220-bed acute-care hospital in Thousand Oaks, Calif, is the second largest of its kind in the state.</p>","PeriodicalId":76941,"journal":{"name":"Respiratory therapy","volume":"16 4","pages":"27, 30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21147702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chronology of a hyperbaric oxygen treatment center.","authors":"J Alexander","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A visit to a Texas hyperbaric medical facility convinced the administrators of a southern California hospital to support a proposal for a multiplace hyperbaric oxygen treatment center at their facility.</p>","PeriodicalId":76941,"journal":{"name":"Respiratory therapy","volume":"16 4","pages":"33, 35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21147699","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Section of Pulmonary Medicine, The Norwalk Hospital, Norwalk, Conn.","authors":"D H Selmont","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76941,"journal":{"name":"Respiratory therapy","volume":"16 2","pages":"33-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21145607","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}