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AARC Respiratory Abstracts - Sponsored by an unrestricted grant from Cardinal Health, this site contains a complete summary of the research presented at the AARC Conferences from 1995 to 2006.

AARC Clinical Practice Guidelines

Advance News Magazine - ADVANCE for Respiratory Care Practitioners is the most widely read publication in the respiratory care arena in the United States, offering current information on important topics, dynamic features and highly desirable job prospects.

Al Dewitt, RRT and Lawyer - This website exists to serve the thousands of respiratory therapists and health care professionals who read my columns.  It is meant to be a resource for health care professionals who have questions about the law or who may need additional information about a topic.

American Lung Association

American Sleep Apnea Association

American Trauma Society

ARDSNetwork - Welcome to the ARDS Clinical Network web site. This site was established to provide information to the public on ARDS and the ARDS Network.

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CoARC - The mission of the Committee on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (CoARC), in collaboration (CAAHEP), is to promote quality respiratory therapy education through accreditation services.

Critical Care Trauma Center

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Excelsior College - If you’re a busy, working health care professional -- and you want to move up in your career -- take a look at the Excelsior College School of Nursing. Here you can earn a respected nursing degree while still tending to work and family through the world’s leading educator of nurses at a distance

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Fingers And Tubes In Every Orifice -It is a tenet of critical care medicine that I learned years ago during my training in Emergency Medicine. It is also a reminder to be tenacious, thorough and leave no stone unturned. You'd be amazed at what can be discovered by a prying finger or an invasive tube.

Family Practice Notebook-Pulmonology

FOCUS Publications, Inc. -Serving the Respiratory Care and Sleep Medicine Professions

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Health Topics A-Z: University of Iowa Health Care

How I do it index - A series of photos, videos and text descriptions of common thoracic operations.

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ICU Room.net - This site is a quick "coffee break" forum for "Intensivists" -   trained and dedicated in taking care of  critically ill (ICU) patients !!

ICU-USA.com | Knowledge is the Best Medicine

Intensive Care On-line Network -Connecting Critical Care, Bringing information, education and technology to the bedside

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Jeff Whitnack's RT Page - CO2 Retainer/Hypoxic Drive Theory and extras

jim allen cartoons: RRT and creator of Meshugga G cartoons. Now has compiled his cartoons into a new book: a collection of cartoons that take a surreal look at the idiosyncratic world of healthcare. Chaos, insanity, bedlam, and?oh yeah?add in a dose of a daily full moon creates an unstable concoction.

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LearnICU Home - Welcome to Learn ICU!  The Society of Critical Care Medicine continuously reviews and evaluates the effectiveness and delivery methods of its quality education activities. Changes in healthcare education are driving how healthcare professionals continue their lifelong learning within their discipline.

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Medical Reviews of House-This show always cracks me up.

Medical Rounds - Multimedia Grand Rounds - Multimedia on demand Medical Education

MerckSource - A world of health information at your fingertips

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Nurse Bob's MICU/CCU Survival Guide

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OR Live - The exclusive home for surgical video

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Paul Arnote's Respiratory Care Links

Patient Handouts - These patient educational handouts are designed to help the patient and physician to reinforce good health care in patients with respiratory disease.

Pulmonology Channel - Developed and monitored by board-certified physicians, pulmonology channel provides comprehensive, trustworthy information about conditions that affect the lungs and breathing, such as asthma, bronchitis, and COPD.

Pulmonary Education and Research Foundation - PERF, The Pulmonary Education and Research Foundation, is a small but vigorous non-profit foundation. We are dedicated to providing help for those with chronic respiratory disease through education, research and information.

Pulmonology Linx - MDLinx connects healthcare professionals and patients to tomorrow’s medical knowledge and provides the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries with highly targeted interactive marketing, education, content, and research solutions.

Pulmonary Medicine Lessons For Residents and Fellows

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RCSW's Links to Medical WWW Sites Focusing On Respiratory Care

Respiratory Research - Respiratory Research is an Open Access, peer-reviewed, online journal that considers manuscripts on all aspects of respiratory function and disease. The journal welcomes studies on asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, cystic fibrosis, genetics, infectious diseases, interstitial lung diseases, lung development, lung tumors, occupational and environmental factors, pulmonary circulation, pulmonary pharmacology and therapeutics, respiratory critical care, respiratory immunology, respiratory physiology, and sleep. The journal will also welcome state-of-the-art reviews on related topics.

Respiratory Reviews-a monthly news magazine for physicians. It provides physicians with information on disorders that affect the lungs and respiratory tract.

Respiratory Support Services - Our company is dedicated to providing innovative patient care programs in the post acute arena. At RSS, we are involved in a diverse area of delivery sites including sub acute ventilator care, rehabilitation, physician offices, and home care. Our diversity positions our company as the industry leader in post acute respiratory care.

Respiratory Therapy 101: Just Keep Breathing - A Respiratory Therapist explains the view from the head of the bed

Respiratory Therapy Blog - A blog by Jeff, a Respiratory Therapist in the Saskatoon Health Region since 1998. Actively involved in adult, pediatric, and neonatal critical care.

Respiratory Therapy Cave: The respiratory therapy cave is a small department on the second floor. Take the elevator and we're right there on your right. You can't miss us. I work solo nights and prefer it that way. The dragons are sleeping at night, if you know what I mean. Sometimes things get crazy around here, and sometimes not. Either way, we have fun. These writings will be the humble perspective from a small town RT Cave.

Respiratory Therapy Student Blog - Journal entries for someone who's going to become a Respiratory Therapist.

Respology - This site offers continuing education courses, technical tools and information for those working with the respiratory system.

Rhonchi - For Respiratory Techs, Therapists, Care Practitioners, Snotsuckers, and other Respiratory Terrorists

RPNmed - For Respiratory Care Practitioners and Mechanical Ventilation Users

RT201 - Several helpful pages of RT stuff

RTLYRICS.com

RT for Decision Makers in Respiratory Care

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Society of Critical Care Medicine - The Society of Critical Care Medicine (SCCM) is the largest multi-professional organization dedicated to ensuring excellence and consistency in the practice of critical care.

SCCM - Society of Critical Care Medicine- Podcasts

Society for Academic Emergency Medicine (SAEM) Simulation Collection

Street Anatomy - Very Nice Medical Illustration Site!!!

Surviving Respiratory Therapy School: Tales of a Trauma Junkie

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The Joint Commission - An independent, not-for-profit organization, The Joint Commission accredits and certifies nearly 15,000 health care organizations and programs in the United States. Joint Commission accreditation and certification is recognized nationwide as a symbol of quality that reflects an organization’s commitment to meeting certain performance standards.

The Lung Association: Kids Area

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Vent Weaning.com - VentWeaning.com is a resource for patients, families, and health care professionals. Our site is not intended to offer medical advice but is only to serve as a resource. Please post your questions or other patient care comments to our Discussion Forum

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Welcome to pulmonaryreviews.com! - Trends in pulmonary and critical care medicine.

World Anaesthesia Online - Advancing anesthesia throughout the developing world.

Your Lung Health - We inspire healthy lungs

YourSurgery.Com - provides easy to understand information for common and specific surgical procedures. YourSurgery.Com® organizes the information so that you and your family can understand each procedure and help you ask your physician questions