200901

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The Radical Respiratory Tour:
A Guided Tour of the Respiratory System Using Old and New Technologies

Respiratory anatomy/physiology from a whole new perspective! Learn the principles of operation of Computerized Tomographic (CT) scans, SPECT scans, and scintigraphs. See gorgeous, high-resolution artwork, transmission electron micrographs, scanning electron micrographs, CT scans, cineangiograms, scintigraphs, and SPECT scans right on your monitor screen! This module incorporates video loops showing the details of fiberoptic bronchoscopy and cardiac catheterization.

200902

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A Closeup Look at Lung Cancer

We encounter patients with lung cancer all the time. This module will give you a depth of knowledge about this topic not available anywhere else. It details the incidence, pathogenesis, clinical presentation, and therapy of the four types of bronchogenic carcinoma. This CD incorporates several video loops dealing with bronchoscopy and hemoptsis.

200903

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Use of a Multidisciplinary Protocol for the Emergency Department Treatment of Exacerbated Asthma in Pediatric Patients

This CD describes the multidisciplinary protocol, developed by the National Asthma Education and Prevention Program (NAEPP), designed to be applied to pediatric patients who come into the emergency room with a flare-up of their disease. It develops the user-friendly Protocol-Based Record that allows you to streamline the documentation, storage and retrieval, and Total Quality Management (TQM) tasks that flow from implementing the NAEPP protocol. In the process, it transforms an intimidatingly complex protocol into a user-friendly document that simplifies the activities of RCPs, emergency nurses and emergency physicians alike

200904

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Use of a Multidisciplinary Protocol for the Emergency Department Treatment of Exacerbated Asthma in Adults

This CD is the adult counterpart of the module described above.

200905

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If you're old enough to read this, you've already had Respiratory Syncytial Virus at least once in your life. RSV is usually benign and self-limiting, but it can trigger bronchiolitis severe enough to necessitate hospitalization in a small percentage of patients. This CD will acquaint you with the natural history, epidemiology, clinical/laboratory diagnosis, sequelae, and treatment of RSV, and the possible link between severe RSV and asthma.

200906

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Do so-called "bacterial/viral filters" really work as advertised? What about the combination filters/heat and moisture exchangers that have flooded the market in recent years? This module contains information that could be crucial to the welfare of any caregiver who ventures close to a mechanically ventilated patient. Learn how you can protect yourself, while enhancing the safety of your patients, and simultaneously save your hospital money. This is a "must-see" module for all Intensive Care clinicians!

200907

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Experienced RCPs are usually well-versed in the task of Arterial Blood Gas interpretation. Because of this, they're often tapped to train Respiratory Care, Nursing, and Medical students, as well as junior staff members, in the intricacies of this vital clinical skill. This module develops and describes powerful protocol-based techniques, as well as computer-linked tools, to make the task of clinical training easier for senior preceptors. By using this module as a "Preceptors' Assistant", senior instructors will be able to teach junior staff members how to interpret, literally, any ABG report that they encounter as: uncompensated or partially compensated or completely compensated; respiratory or metabolic or mixed; acidemia or alkalemia. What better way to assess and document a crucially important competency that is a fundamental component of the skills inventory of any ICU caregiver?

200908

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The most difficult patients to diagnose are those who exhibit hypercapnia. In this module, a protocol is developed which allows caregivers to discriminate among acute, chronic, and acute-on- chronic hypercapnia. The protocol has been coded to run on a digital computer as a CLINIMAP, allowing senior clinicians to teach their junior colleagues how to acquire this competency, and how to apply it at the bedside.

200909

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Hypoxemia is frequently detected in patients for whom ABG analysis is performed. This module allows the members of the caregiver team to undertake "data mining" in order to ascertain the cause of hypoxemia from the data already provided. You'll understand the concepts of shunting and ventilation/perfusion mismatching as never before, thanks to lucid graphics. And you'll be supplied with an interactive protocol that can be used to discriminate between age-induced changes in PaQ₂, hypoventilation, shunting, and V/Q mismatching, allowing you to intelligently select the appropriate mode of therapy within moments of receiving the ABG report.

200910

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Acid-base chemistry is a subject area that often strikes fear into the hearts of medical, nursing, and allied health practitioners, and the students with whom they interact. This module systematically examines the fundamental principles of acid-base chemistry, and builds a comprehensive picture of this area of knowledge in order to dispel the perception of acid-base as an impenetrable intellectual thicket that only scientists can begin to understand. It makes liberal use of physical models and analogies in order to acquaint viewers with the simultaneous changes that can occur in an acid-base equilibrium system, changes that often appear bewildering in their complexity. These concepts are then applied to actual acid-base disturbances that clinicians frequently encounter in their day-to-day practice.

200911

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This module incorporates three case presentations to demonstrate situations in which continuous, on-line, real-time acquisition and display of ABG data can tangibly enhance patient care. It details the management of a teenage patient with severe ARDS, a 22-month-old with hemolytic uremic syndrome, and a seven-year-old with propionic acidemia. The Tri-Axial method of data display is used to map the chronologic changes in ABGs that were observed in these patients as various strategies and modalities were employed in an effort to correct their acid-base disorders.