Pulse Oximeters Once Again in the Spotlight at FDA
(MedPage Today) -- Improving the accuracy of pulse oximeters, especially in patients with darker skin pigments, will be the focus at Friday's meeting of the FDA's Anesthesiology and Respiratory Therapy Devices Panel, part of its Medical Devices... (Source: MedPage Today Public Health)
Source: MedPage Today Public Health - February 1, 2024 Category: American Health Source Type: news
Why Jefferson is partnering with a Denver hospital to address a mutual staffing problem
Karsten Roberts, Jefferson's respiratory therapy program director of clinical education, said the idea for the collaboration with National Jewish Health was inspired by staffing shortages not only in Philadelphia and Denver, but also everywhere in the field. (Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines)
Source: bizjournals.com Health Care:Pharmaceuticals headlines - August 29, 2023 Category: Pharmaceuticals Authors: Analisa Romano Source Type: news
New respiratory therapy graduate already has a lifetime of experiences
Born in Nigeria, Esosa Odemwingie came to the United States and found her passion in medicine. (Source: SUNY Upstate Medical)
Source: SUNY Upstate Medical - May 3, 2023 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: News Source Type: news
Lupin inks pact to acquire two inhalation brands from Sunovion for USD 75 mn
The acquisition of these two brands will expand the company's inhalation product portfolio in the US and strengthen its presence in the respiratory therapy area while continuing to provide patients access to these important medicines, Lupin said in a statement. Brovana is indicated for long-term maintenance treatment of bronchoconstriction in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, including chronic bronchitis and emphysema. (Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News)
Source: The Economic Times Healthcare and Biotech News - October 20, 2022 Category: Pharmaceuticals Source Type: news
Upstate's Respiratory Therapy Program honored with credentialing success award
The honor goes to institutions whose students achieve credentialing success of more than 90 percent. (Source: SUNY Upstate Medical)
Source: SUNY Upstate Medical - July 20, 2022 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: News Source Type: news
FDA Warning Released for Volara Respiratory System FDA Warning Released for Volara Respiratory System
Risk of oxygen loss with this respiratory therapy prompts a notice of urgent medical device correction from the FDA.News Alerts (Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines)
Source: Medscape Medical News Headlines - June 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Tags: Pulmonary Medicine News Alert Source Type: news
Researchers Are Getting Closer to Understanding Long COVID. But Treatments Are Likely Still a Ways Off
Two years into the COVID-19 pandemic, questions about Long COVID still outnumber answers. Why do some people develop long-lasting symptoms—often after a mild case of COVID-19, sometimes even after being vaccinated—while others fully recover from their brushes with the SARS-CoV-2 virus? Why does Long COVID seem to disproportionately appear in women? How can one condition affect numerous bodily systems, causing symptoms ranging from brain fog to joint pain to total exhaustion? Is Long COVID a single diagnosis, or is it better understood as an umbrella term for a spectrum of disease, caused by a range of biologica...
Source: TIME: Health - March 7, 2022 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Upstate Respiratory Therapy alum and faculty stepped forward to help after 9/11
The job for the Upstate teams was to conduct pulmonary function tests in order to assess breathing and establish a “baseline” for the lung function of the officers. (Source: SUNY Upstate Medical)
Source: SUNY Upstate Medical - September 10, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: News Source Type: news
Pediatric COVID-19 Cases Are Surging, Pushing Hospitals —and Health Care Workers—to Their Breaking Points
Aug. 20 was a good day in the pediatric intensive care unit at Children’s Hospital New Orleans. Carvase Perrilloux, a two-month-old baby who’d come in about a week earlier with respiratory syncytial virus and COVID-19, was finally ready to breathe without the ventilator keeping his tiny body alive. “You did it!” nurses in PPE cooed as they removed the tube from his airway and he took his first solo gasp, bare toes kicking.
Downstairs, Quintetta Edwards was preparing for her 17-year-old son, Nelson Alexis III, to be discharged after spending more than two weeks in the hospital with COVID-19—fir...
Source: TIME: Health - August 26, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Jamie Ducharme/New Orleans, La. Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 healthscienceclimate Source Type: news
Orlando urges residents to conserve water because of surge in covid hospitalizations
The region has faced shortages of liquid oxygen, used in water treatment, as a growing number of critically ill people require respiratory therapy. (Source: Washington Post: To Your Health)
Source: Washington Post: To Your Health - August 20, 2021 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Derek Hawkins Source Type: news
Upstate now offering bachelor of science in respiratory therapy in Rochester
Upstate ’s College of Health Professions opens distance learning program at Rochester General College of Health Careers. (Source: SUNY Upstate Medical)
Source: SUNY Upstate Medical - April 16, 2021 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: News Source Type: news
Worcester ’ s DCU Center Opens As COVID Field Hospital
WORCESTER (CBS) – Rows of beds will soon be used by COVID-19 patients as the DCU Center in Worcester once again transforms into a field hospital. On Sunday, the facility started accepting patients.
The DCU Center was used as a field hospital in the spring as well.
The DCU Center in Worcester has once again been turned into a field hospital. (WBZ-TV)
“We are anticipating we will be busier this time just because our mission is so that the hospital can remain open outpatients and those procedures that were shut down the first go round,” said Pete Lancette, Chief Nursing Officer.
The field hospital holds up to 215 beds. ...
Source: WBZ-TV - Breaking News, Weather and Sports for Boston, Worcester and New Hampshire - December 6, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Health – CBS Boston Tags: Boston News Covid-19 Boston, MA Health Healthcare Status Syndicated CBSN Boston Syndicated Local Coronavirus DCU Center Worcester news Source Type: news
Benefits of inhaled nitric oxide therapy for pregnant patients with COVID-19
(Massachusetts General Hospital) Inhaled nitric oxide (NO) can be a valuable adjunct respiratory therapy for pregnant women with severe and critical COVID-19. (Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases)
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - August 26, 2020 Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news
Upstate's Respiratory Therapy Program honored with credentialing success award
Award honorees must have credentialing success rate of more than 90 percent. (Source: SUNY Upstate Medical)
Source: SUNY Upstate Medical - June 18, 2020 Category: Universities & Medical Training Tags: News Source Type: news
COVID-19 Care Will Not End at Discharge —Government Help for the Uninsured Shouldn’t Either
Our patient had spent nearly a month on a ventilator, his lungs so diseased that every effort to allow him to breathe on his own had failed. And then, finally, he improved and the tube came out – he needed only oxygen from a mask. Now, he breathes without difficulty on his own.
But that is far from the whole story. Once off the ventilator, our patient – a previously healthy man in his 40s – was for a time unable to speak aside from occasional unintelligible sounds. Nor could he move his arms or legs. Happily, he has since recovered some of his ability to speak and move, but we still do not know how long-l...
Source: TIME: Health - May 15, 2020 Category: Consumer Health News Authors: Clifford Marks Tags: Uncategorized COVID-19 Source Type: news
