If you’re looking for a health care career, but haven’t decided which one to pursue, take a deep breath. Then take a look at respiratory care. Respiratory therapists help people breathe. Their ...

An advisory panel of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on Thursday recommended the use of Merck's ...

Respiratory therapist Shari Hymes talks about her $10,000 gift to Stony Brook Eastern Long Island Hospital. Credit: Shari Hymes. By Vera [email protected] @VeraChinese April 21, 2020.

There are are approximately 150,000 licensed respiratory therapists in the U.S. About 6,000-7,000 respiratory students are set to graduate in the next 30-60 days from respiratory colleges and ...

At the age of 2, his family moved to the Los Angeles area, where his father worked as a handyman and his mother was a seamstress. Saldivar was smart and outgoing, but he admitted that he never tried ...

Over- and under-ordering respiratory therapy were initially recognized as a problem almost 20 years ago. Unfortunately, these practices remain common today. For example, physicians continue to ...

Researchers conducted a literature review to determine whether platelet-rich plasma therapy could help slow disease progression through lung regeneration in patients with chronic respiratory disease.

Fern Franco, 75, was admitted to Hedrick Medical Center for pneumonia in her lung on May 17, 2002. The next day, she was found in cardiac arrest by respiratory therapist Jennifer Hall. Hall alerted a ...

Each year, approximately 4,000 children undergo a tracheostomy- the surgical placement of a breathing tube-due to respiratory or neuromuscular disorders or chronic disease progression. Skip to content ...

Yahaira Alicea, left, a respiratory therapist who treated the first two COVID-19 patients hospitalized in Puerto Rico, receives a Covid-19 vaccine in San Juan on Dec. 15, 2020.

Frieda Fairman has been a respiratory therapist for 14 years. At Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, that typically involves working with patients on a range of breathing problems, from sleep ...

The divesting Teleflex respiratory product lines include oxygen and aerosol therapy, active humidification, non-invasive ventilation, and incentive spirometers, which generated $139 million in ...