Medicine Cave.
- Beta Agonists, Anticholinergics, And The Autonomic Nervous System
- How do respiratory and cardiac medicines work?
- Respiratory Therapy Medicine Lexicon
- Generic and brand names
- What does Off Label Mean?
- MDIs: Priming the pump
- Wasting aerosolized medicine
- Check out what your COPD, Asthma meds cost
- Comparison of efficacy of MDI versus SVN
- Giving Albuterol to Decrease Potassium
- The latest wisdom on mucolytics
- Ventolin with GPS: Good idea?
- Nebulizer or inhaler: which one works best for your child
- Improving aerosol drug delivery in children
- What is a nebulizer
- What is a metered dose inhaler?
- What is a spacer?
- When do you end a breathing treatment
- The link between albuterol and potassium
- What size aerosolized particle is therapeutic?
- Things that effect distribution of aerosolized medications
- How long does medicine stay in your system?
- Nebulizer versus science: the nebulizer debate
- Why give treatments to intubated patients
- The proper way to give treatments inline with BiPAP
- You can BiPAP at low settings
Critical Cave:
- What is intubation?
- What is a ventilator?
- Indications for intubation
- Ventilator Extubation Protocol
- Subglottic Suctioning
- Lavage and suction
- What tracheal cuff pressure is ideal? The latest evidence
- What is PEEP? How to do a PEEP Study
- Ventilator Modes (coming fall 2017)
ABG Cave:
- What is a blood gas?
- ABG interpretation made easy: interpreting acid base balance
- ABG interpretation made easy: interpreting level of hypoxemia
- ABG interpretation made easy: how to know patient is CO2 retainer
- ABG Lexicon
- Cord blood gases made easy
- ABG Temperature Correction
- Normal Neonatal ABGs and Vitals
- The argument against ABGs and for VBGs
- How to keep your ABG lab from failing inspections
- Met Hemoglobin
- ABG errors and how to fix them
- Tips for drawing ABGs
Oxygen Cave:
- The Diffusion of Oxygen from Air to Tissues
- Oxygen Therapy made easy
- How do you know what oxygen device to use?
- Oxyhemoglobin Dissociation curve
- Did you know oxygen tanks aren't really tanks?
Neonatal Cave:
- Why premature babies are at higher risk for complications
- T-piece resuscitators (NEOpuff) verses self-inflating bags (NEOpuff)
- Neonates must be kept warm
- Do not overoxygenate neonates
- Indications for intubating neonates
- How to decrease chances of brain injury in neonates
- The best dose of Albuterol and Xopenex for neonates
- The basics of neonatal CPAP
- Oxygen should be used on neonates as a drug with side effects
- It's time to get rid of neonatal AMBU-bags, or risk serious injury
- Setting up ventilator on neonate
- Neonatal abnormaities to consider
- Congenital heart abnormalities
- Neonatal tidal volumes
- Normal Neonatal ABGs and Vitals
- NeoPuff (T-piece resuscitator)
- Aerochamber Flow works great
- EKG Interpretation made easy
- The basics of axis deviation of the EKG
- 5 common myths about performing EKGs
- Hemodynamics made easy
- 5 common myths about performing EKGs
- Does supplemental oxygen help with heart attack/ chest pain
- Lungsound Lexicon
- Lung sounds for dunderheads
- Where to listen to lungsounds
- How to listen to lungsounds
- 9 different types or wheezes
- Pulmonary Function Testing Basics
- The proglem with pulmonary function testing
- Aerosol drug delivery in children (SVN, MDI or DPI)
- Blowby breathing treatments
- Most aerosolized medicine is wasted
- Crying during breathing treatments
- 5 Common myths about performing EKGs
- Sputum
- pulmonary toilet (also click here)
- Nonindications for bronchodilators
- Real indications for bronchodilators
- Treatment stacking
- Respiratory therapy formulas
- Incentive spirometry
- The breathing patterns
- Chest tubes and pleural drainage systems
- Respiratory Therapy Formulas
- Tips for reading chest x-rays
- The Respiratory Pump: How do we breath?
- Lung Anatomy and Physiology: Ventilation Made Easy
- All the lab values you need to know
- Smoking Cessation teaching
- Peak flow meters
- To lavage and suction or not to lavage and suction?
- The case against IPPB
- The case for IPPB
- The argument against ABGs
- Religious -vs- nonreligious patients
- Crease in ear, RLD, linked to CAD?
- The truth about bronchodilators
- What is a tracheostomy?
- What is an AMBU-bag?
- What is a crash cart?
- Lungsounds for dunderheads
Hypoxic Drive Cave.
- What is the hypoxic drive theory?
- Hypoxic Drive: A History of the Myth
- How the hypoxic drive theory was born
- Interview: Debunking The Hypoxic Drive Theory
- Hypoxic Drive: Here is your evidence
- The hypoxic drive theory: Reality or hoax
- The hypoxic drive theory: why do we breathe
- The hypoxic drive theory: the retainer
- The hypoxic drive theory: debunked
- The hypoxic drive theory: completely debunked
- The hypoxic drive: Here's the latest theory
- Alternatives to hypoxic drive theory
- The Haldane Effect and V/Q Mismatching should replace Hypoxic Drive Theory
- COPD/ CO2 Retainers: How should they be managed?
- What evidence disproves hypoxic drive theory wrong?
- Are all COPD patients CO2 retainers?
- The 8 stages of medical scams
Critical Care Cave:
- Ventilating Morbidly Obese Patients
- Ideal Tidal Volumes
- Ventilator Delerium (psychosis)
- Guidelines for adjusting ventilator settings
- Ventilator Graphics
- Capnography
- Complete whiteout
- Change in recommended ETT cuff pressures
- Change in recommended tidal volumes
- Tracheotomies
- CPAP -vs- BiPAP: What you need to know
- How to qualify for BiPAP
- Does BiPAP force pulmonary edema from lungs?
- How to give breathing treatment to patient on BiPAP (2/27/13)
- The best way to do weaning parameters
- BiPAP on DNR patients: An ethical issue
- Indications for intubation of critically ill
- Up with IPPB
- Down with IPPB
- Good start settings for BiPAP
- What's the best way to do weaning parameters?
- Indications for Intubation
- Why give treatments to patients on a ventilator? Here is the science
- Advanced airway lavage and suction: the latest evidence
- Ventilator weaning should be done on minimal settings -- not-piece
Disease Cave.
- What is Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation (DIC)? (updated)
- Causes of Ventilator-Associated Pneumonia updated
- Preventing Ventilator Associated Pneumonia (VAP) (updated)
- Ventilator Associated Pneumonia Statistics
- Sepsis (updated)
- Respiratory Anatomy and Physiology: Ventilation Made Easy (updated)
- The difference between Obstructive versus Restrictive Diseases (updated)
- Conditions that cause decreased mucociliary clearance (updated)
- How to stop nosocomial diseases? (updated)
- The Balance of Sodium and Potassium: Part I (updated)
- The Balance of Sodium and Potassium: Part II (updated)
- Cystic Fibrosis (updated)
- Asthma
- COPD
- Cardiac Asthma (updated)
- Heart Failure (updated)
- Treatment for heart failure
- Influenza (coming soon)
- Swine Flu (updated)
- Swine flu (an editorial) (updated)
- Ebola (updated)
- Pneumonia
- Lung Cancer (updated)
- Mesothelioma (updated)
- Asbestos linked to mesothelioma (updated)
- History of mesothelioma (updated)
- Bronchiolitis (updated)
- DVT and PE
- ARDS
- Bronchiolitis (RSV)
- Circadium Rythm Sleep Disorder (for night shifters)
- Dry Drowning: Drowning on dry land
- Interstitial Lung Disease (ILD) or Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
- Sarcoidosis (may eventually lead to ILD)
- Lupus (may eventually lead to ILD)
- Bronchiectasis
- Restless Leg Syndrome
- Pertussis
- White Coat Fever
- Near drowning
- Sarcoidosis
- Lupas
- Smoke inhalation/ burns
- Sleep apnea
- Treatment for sleep apnea
- Types of sleep apnea
- Chest trauma
- Neurological disorders
- Atelectasis
- White coat fever
- Pleurisy and pleural effusions
- Interstitial Lung Disease
- Pneumothorax and Hemothorax
- Emphysema
- Comorbidities
- Bronchiectasis
- Pulmonary infarction
- Alarm Fatigue
Administrative Cave:
- The Keystone Collaborative
- Core Measures
- Utilization Review
- Intensity of Service
- Hospital Quality Assurance Analyzer
- Simple sputum may assure reimbursement
- How to run a successful business
- What makes a good hospital
- When to call the doctor
- Rapid Response Teams
- Do Rapid Response Teams work?
- How to deal with arrogant doctors
- How to keep your lab from failing
- Positive outcomes based medicine
- Science in reverse
- Order sets are stupid, IMO (editorial)
- Hospital marketing lexicon
- Core goals for hospitals
- DRGs or how a hospital makes money
- How to solve the healthcare problem
- Things RT bosses can do to make us happy
- How to deal with bullying in the workplace
Respiratory Protocol Cave:
- Ventilator set-up protocol
- Ventilator Extubation Protocol
- Ventilator Bundle
- Ventilator Management Protocol
- Acute lung injury protocol
- Five levels of a good Ventilator Protocol
- RT Driven Protocols
- Two types of protocols
- Advantages of protocols, and why many RT Departments don't have them
- How to do a PEEP study