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Aug 01, 2009 ... * AHIMA Launches Interactive Personal Health Record Web Site * Lung Cancer Staging System Revised for the First Time in 10 Years * Michigan Tech Students Develop Mattress for More Effective CPR * Lung Association and CHEST Foundation Partner to Award $80,000 ...
Situation normal ...(regulations regarding the usage of ventilators)(Editorial)
Aug 01, 2009; ... One of the goals of home respiratory therapists is to make their patients as mobile and independent as possible. With today's high-tech mobility devices and smaller, lighter, more portable ventilators, this goal is becoming a reality. The recently passed Department of ...
Supplemental oxygen in pulmonary rehabilitation: most RTs would agree that adding supplemental oxygen produces patient symptoms, but the evidence needs to be closely examined.(Editorial)(Cover story)
Aug 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The use of ambulatory supplemental oxygen has been around for much longer than you might think. In fact, we can go all the way back to 1959 when Alvan Barach, MD, published his pioneering work titled "Ambulatory oxygen therapy: Oxygen inhalation at home ...
The medium is the medication: in the wake of complaints about the new HFA inhalers, patient education is crucial to avoiding a host of miseries.(hydrofluoroalkane)(www.consumeraffairs.com )
Aug 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Eight months into the switch to hydrofluoroalkane (HFA) inhalers, asthma patients are still benefiting from albuterol, but many are also spewing venom. Despite more than a half year to adjust to the switch from chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), a quick look at ...
Short changed? Home oxygen reimbursement changes effective January 2009 trouble patients and providers, but proposed legislation could restore a more equitable system.(Editorial)
Aug 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) implemented its new regulations governing home oxygen reimbursement on January 1, 2009. These changes, part of the larger Deficit Reduction Act (DRA), Medicare Modernization Act (MMA), and Medicare ...