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Asthma is a chronic lung disease that causes difficulty breathing, and sometimes chest pain, secondary to spasm of smooth airway muscle (bronchospasm), airway inflammation, and increased airway secretions.



In the United States it is estimated that 17.5 million adults, and 7.1 million children, have been diagnosed with asthma. Also in the United States 3,447 people died from asthma symptoms. Worldwide it is estimated that 300 million people have asthma. Currently asthma is costing…

Hi All

There are number of Respiratory Therapist vacancies in Dubai under the Dubai Health Authority (DHA). For who don't know Dubai, It is a growing and nice city in United Arab Emirates.

Anybody interested, please contact the below

Yousef ALMutairi

Consultant, Respiratory Care Services

Dubai Health Authority

Rashid Hospital

e-mail: YSalmutairi@dha.gov.ae

SBAHC in riyadh still in need of respiratory therapist

             For those of you with asthma or COPD a car ride, even a short one, can be the beginning of a nightmare, or a pending life-changing event. One of the keys to living with lung disease is avoiding the triggers. If the triggers are in the air around you that key becomes very difficult to perform. Well, here is a tip that may make it easier.

            Even a short car ride can put you right in the middle of a multitude of extrinsic (or external) asthma/COPD triggers. A few…

Airway management is really a very broad spectrum term. To most people in healthcare it means simply putting in an endotracheal tube, but there really is a lot more to it than that. Our airway consists of everything from our oral opening all the way down to the small distal terminal bronchioles. Placing an endotracheal tube only involves a small part of that airway. Well, what happens before the tube gets placed? What…

Hello to all Rt's out there. I am new here and would like to see if I can find some of my class mates. I come from the defunct, long defunct, nyu-bellevue respiratory therapy program 1980-1983. I still remember Hector Sorreano, he was also a music man, he played bass in a rock band, I think he was also director of some hospital in brooklyn, dont remember which. Along with Evelyn Negron (evie) and some others whos names I have forgotten. Anyways if anyone out there know of any rt's from this…

I have not figured this one out about gift part. No One is giving any one any gift.

Shahid

Would like a contact number to a recruiter for possible employment, highly skilled 16 yrs experience, RRT, dedicated to profession seeking new opportunitys for challenge and growth and of course some adventure.

Nah!! I won’t be commenting on USA’s Independence day, not like it is not worth talking about,

but I just choose to go local today.

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