There is a car, in the hospital parking lot. It is a faded red, covered with dust. Other cars have parked and left on either side of it, every day, but this car remains. I pass by it, as I find parking, on my way in to work. I know what it means. 1/

Congratulations to the CHS RC program for receiving another American Association for Respiratory Care Apex Recognition Award. Awards are given to programs committed to excellence, the highest quality of care, and elevating recognition of the respiratory care profession.

The real reason why ChatGPT is making academics panic:

Cue our #happy dance 🕺 RUSH is one of the World's Best Hospitals, according to Newsweek! Learn more: rsh.md/3mkVnVd #BestHospitals #HealthCare #RUSHExcellence

Full Moon from the International Space Station. 📸 NASA

A MASSIVE moment for Arsenal in the title race 🔥 (via NBC Sports Soccer)

What are the outcomes after critical illness? Great review by Dr. Herridge and Elie Azoulay published on NEJM Provide a patient and caregiver perspective, during and after ICU Everyone caring for critically ill patients should read this 🔗 nejm.org/doi/full/10.10… #FOAMcc

The Waterfall of AutoPeep   📌Here is a concept every doctor, nurse & RT must know if you care for pts on #ventilators…intrinsic or auto-PEEP  📌 Tobin’s classic CHEST waterfall analogy 📌⬆️ safety & comfort in patients w respiratory failure   bit.ly/3JNi9hX

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Research Summary: Acute Effects of Coffee Consumption on Health among Ambulatory Adults (CRAVE) nej.md/3FCvW8j

Healthy lungs vs smokers lungs 😳 #MedEd #MedTwitter H/T Medical Videos

What are your thoughts on eating/drinking during HFNC? We surveyed #respiratorytherapists, #speechlanguagepathologists, #registereddietitians, & #physicians #APPs. A Survey of Feeding Practices During High-Flow Nasal Cannula Oxygen Therapy rc.rcjournal.com/content/early/…

Sharing our new publication-- an RCT evaluating CSS w/integrated tube-scraping tech Ramandeep Kaur David L. Vines, PhD, RRT, FAARC, FCCP Tyler Weiss, MSc, RRT, RRT-ACCS, AE-C, FCCP Andrew Klein Rush University RUSH Health Sciences Evaluation of a Closed Suction System With Integrated Tube-Scraping Technology rc.rcjournal.com/content/early/…

Elsevier is losing editors

Meet Nani, one of three Canine Therapy Corps therapy dogs who helps lift spirits in our emergency department.

Our publication on Gender equity of authorship in pulmonary medicine over the past decade. Thanks for the teamwork Brady Scott PhD RRT Dr. Shawna Strickland CAE RRT sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

A new index, Respiratory Insufficiency index and Modified Early Warning Scores predict extubation failure David L. Vines, PhD, RRT, FAARC, FCCP, Ramandeep Kaur Available at cjrt.ca!

You know why we intubated people for Covid in March 2020? Because otherwise they were going to die. Full. Stop. I remember a patient rolling in with an oxygen saturation of 42%, breathing twice as fast as normal,struggling on a face mask with oxygen all the way up. What to do?

1/17 Recognizing #RespiratoryTherapists: A Call for Inclusion in #Illinois #Healthcare I was recently informed of an issue I should have recognized early, I admit, I am late on this, but here we are... A🧵

"This preliminary work suggests that advancing education for the respiratory therapist workforce may improve the discharge quality of patients with acute respiratory failure and should be further explored." cjrt.ca/article/87641-…