{"title":"Computers in respiratory therapy education.","authors":"K Hopper","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Microcomputers are widely available in schools of respiratory therapy and in hospital respiratory therapy departments and are influencing this and other areas of health science education in a major way. Computer-assisted instruction is a versatile, efficient means of providing content expertise in both settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":76941,"journal":{"name":"Respiratory therapy","volume":"16 2","pages":"27-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1986-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21169936","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":"Porter Memorial Hospital Regional Baromedicine Center, Denver.","authors":"L J North, G S Schroeder","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This regional center, the first baromedical center in Denver, has opened an exciting new area of patient care for the hospital's respiratory therapists.</p>","PeriodicalId":76941,"journal":{"name":"Respiratory therapy","volume":"15 6","pages":"59-60, 64"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21144459","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":"Determining patient education needs.","authors":"J W Hopp, R Hills","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patients will learn more readily if you teach them what they want to know, in a way suited to their style of learning. The current emphasis in education is on the learner: What is that learner like? What are his or her beliefs, values, attitudes, and behaviors? What is his or her level of knowledge? You need to know all these things--and more--when you embark on a program of patient education. This article offers a step-by-step guide in determining your patients' educational needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":76941,"journal":{"name":"Respiratory therapy","volume":"15 6","pages":"39-44"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21144455","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":"From hospital to living room. Making the move into respiratory home care.","authors":"J G Herman","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Respiratory therapists and hospitals see the home health care market as a way out of the fiscal bind the government has put them in. With department revenues slashed and RTs pushed out of the hospital by staffing cutbacks, home respiratory care is attracting a growing following. The opportunities and rewards are many, the challenges great.</p>","PeriodicalId":76941,"journal":{"name":"Respiratory therapy","volume":"15 6","pages":"33-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21144453","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":"Cigarette smoking and the respiratory therapist.","authors":"D P Sachs","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>You owe your job to the cigarette-manufacturing industry. Its product sees to it that enough patients are in our respiratory intensive care units and medical and surgical services to keep you and me busy. The simple fact is that cigarette smoking is the major cause of emphysema, chronic bronchitis, and lung cancer. Cigarette smoking is also the single greatest modifiable risk factor behind fatal heart attacks, accounting for nearly one third of these.</p>","PeriodicalId":76941,"journal":{"name":"Respiratory therapy","volume":"15 5","pages":"36-7, 40-1"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21140812","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":"Respiratory therapy department, Tucson Medical Center.","authors":"T Eazer, A Hinton, C F Diener","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>At this facility in the Arizona desert, the respiratory therapy department has three staff levels of therapists, designated I, II, and III according to their training, experience, and assigned responsibilities.</p>","PeriodicalId":76941,"journal":{"name":"Respiratory therapy","volume":"15 5","pages":"29-35"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21142797","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 vacation cruise for COPD patients.","authors":"K Santoro","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A nurse who helped arrange a four-day cruise for a group of \"graduates\" of a pulmonary rehabilitation program offers tips that could enable other groups of respiratory patients to enjoy a similar vacation.</p>","PeriodicalId":76941,"journal":{"name":"Respiratory therapy","volume":"15 4","pages":"31-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21142168","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":"Applications of a hand-held computer in critical care medicine.","authors":"D Hess, C Maxwell, N N Agarwal, D A Silage","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Hand-held computers provide a reasonable alternative to desk-top computers in critical care units because of their size and affordability. The applications described include specific examples of software to perform hemodynamic calculations, intravenous flow rate calculations, and respiratory calculations. This software has been used for several years and has been found to be very useful.</p>","PeriodicalId":76941,"journal":{"name":"Respiratory therapy","volume":"15 4","pages":"25-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21142423","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":"The Hyperbaric Medicine Center, University of California, San Diego.","authors":"A Powers","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":76941,"journal":{"name":"Respiratory therapy","volume":"15 3","pages":"51-2, 56-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21142421","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":"Evaluation of a home apnea monitoring program.","authors":"N Davis, K Bakke","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>From July 1978 to November 1981, 251 infants were studied for apnea at Children's Orthopedic Hospital and Medical Center. Idiopathic apnea was diagnosed in 45% of the infants referred. Infants who had histories of severe episodes tended to have more severe epidoses on follow-up and required a longer monitoring period. Age at onset of apneic episodes was related directly o length of monitoring period. Prematurity was not found to correlate with age at onset or severity. Developmental problems evident in some infants will require long-term follow-up.</p>","PeriodicalId":76941,"journal":{"name":"Respiratory therapy","volume":"15 3","pages":"43-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1985-05-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"21142165","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}