• See WWW Links for Healthcare Providers for many other useful pulmonary links

• Respiratory Equipment

  • Respironics:  Makers of O2 Sat monitors, BiPAP/CPAP devices, sleep medicine diagnostics, etc...

  • Mallinckrodt: You may know them as Shiley^®, DAR^®, Nellcor^® or Puritan-Bennett^®; all are Mallinckrodt brands.

  • Baxter Healthcare

  • Ingmar Educational Tools for Respiratory Care

  • Nonin Medical:  Pulse Oximeters including the finger Onyx device.

  • Summit Interactive Software

     

• Professional Organizations

  • American Association of Respiratory Care:  Membership info, patient education material, on-line CEU, WWW links, etc... This is a well maintained site with plenty to browse thru.

  • American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehab: Links, publications, membership info, etc...

  • National Board of Respiratory Care:  Info on NBRC exams, etc...

  • Oregon Society for Respiratory Care's Home Page.  Job postings, on-line CEU, and links to other state respiratory care homepages.

  • Respiratory Therapist Licensing Board:  The laws, rules, and how to of licensing.

• Publications and Journals

Respiratory Care Journal:		American Journal of Respiratory Care and Critical Care Medicine
RT-Magazine		Advance for Managers of Respiratory Care
Advance for Respiratory Care Practitioners		Chest

• Other Links

  • Bad Breath:  Since as a group you are probably exposed to more bad breath than any other profession, here is a link to remember for those patients in need.

  • Lane County Community College-Respiratory Therapy:  Program Info

  • Medical Calculators:  Aa difference, shunt fraction, airway resistance, etc... can be calculated online with these simple physiologic calculators.

  • NICU-Web: From Children's Hospital at the University of Washington, has material on many NICU issues.  Primarily intended for its pediatric residents, has some useful online info.

  • Other Resp Tx Links

These documents are .pdf files and will require Acrobat Reader®. 

See also:  American Association for Respiratory Care Clinical Practice Guidelines - AARC approved guidelines for a variety of respiratory therapy procedures.

See also the "Most Popular Patient Handout" web page