Research Guides -- Health Occupations:
Respiratory Care Practitioner
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Heart
and Lung
JAMA:
Journal of the American Medical Association
New
England Journal of Medicine
Respiratory
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Books & AV
For a complete listing of materials about respiratory care topics, please consult
the MATC Library Online Catalog. It provides access to books, magazines, reserve
materials, audio-visual materials such as videos, and selected web sites.
Many web sites deal with medical and health topics. Here are a few which provide
accurate, up-to-date information:
Advance for Respiratory
Care Practitioners
http://www.advanceforrcp.com/
An online journal that covers breaking news, clinical developments, education
trends, career information, a forum for therapists, product information, and
business news in the respiratory therapy world.
The American Association for
Respiratory Care
http://www.aarc.org/
Provides career, continuing education and patient education information about
the respiratory therapy field.
ARDS net
http://www.ardsnet.org/
Provides information on the care of patients with acute respiratory distress
syndrome.
Burnsurgery.org
http://www.burnsurgery.org/
Provides professional information on burn care including dealing with pulmonary
problems.
COARC
http://www.coarc.com/
Lists standards and guidelines for accredited, educational programs in respiratory
care.
Drug InfoNet
http://www.druginfonet.com/
Provides information and links for healthcare professionals and consumers concerning
health and pharmaceutical-related topics.
Foocus. Focus Journal for Respiratory
Care and Sleep Medicine
http://www.foocus.com
An online journal for those disciplines that practice in acute care hospitals,
homecare, sleep and pulmonary function laboratories.
Mechanical
ventilation graphics
http://hometown.aol.com/Grafxsman/index.html
Discusses using graphics to help individualize ventilator settings to the benefit
of the patient.
Merck homepage
http://www.merck.com
Provides online access to several Merck publications that are standard references
in the health care field.
The National Board for Respiratory
Care
http://www.nbrc.org
Provides information about licensing practitioners involved in the care and
support of patients with respiratory disorders.
National Heart
Lung and Blood Institute
http://www.nhlbi.nih.gov/index.htm
Part of the National Institute of Health, the NHLBI site provides links to information
for patients, health care providers, researchers and educators interested in
respiratory conditions.
The
Peds CCM File Cabinet. The Pediatric Critical Care Website
http://pedsccm.wustl.edu/FILE-CABINET/File_cab_index.html
Targets the critical care practitioner, providing links to lectures, literature
reviews, and institution-based protocols. The pertinent topics include respiratory
physiology; respiratory infections; the pediatric airway; respiratory care,
acid base, PFT's; ARDS, lung injury, mechanical ventilation, weaning from ventilation,
experimental therapies, asthma, and other conditions.
RC
World
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/hannigan/
Provides a professional forum for those interested in respiratory care.
Respiratory
anatomy and pathology from Cornell
http://edcenter.med.cornell.edu/CUMC_PathNotes/Respiratory/Respiratory.html
This site from the Weill Medical College of Cornell University discusses the
normal and diseased respiratory system. It includes many graphics.
Respiratory Care. The official
journal of the American Association for Respiratory Care
http://www.rcjournal.com/
An online science journal with a mission to disseminate information, viewpoints,
and questions about respiratory disease, research, clinical and laboratory practice,
education, and management.
Vent World
http://www.ventworld.com/
Provides ventilator product and supplier information, news, discussion, education,
tools, and vent resources for the respiratory and critical care community.
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Available by clicking on the title of the database below. Access from home
or work is available for these databases, please read the instructions for Off
Campus Users.
CINAHL
PlusText
Indexes a wide range of allied health articles, many of which are full-text.
Health
Reference Center - Academic
A full-text database that covers professional and consumer health and medicine
topics.
MEDLINEPlus
A service of the National Library of Medicine that provides links to information
from professional and government health organizations about drugs, diseases
and conditions, and to PubMed/MEDLINE index.
PubMed
A service of the National Library of Medicine that provides access to over 12
million MEDLINE
citations back to the mid-1960's and to additional life science journals. PubMed
includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related
resources.
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Evaluating
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