February/March 2001
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How and Why We Fingerprint Tuberculosis |
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by Jeffrey R. Driscoll, PhD; Philip A. Lee; Robert J. Jovell; Yvonne M. Hale; and Max Salfinger, MD |
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The key to eliminating TB will be through social mobilization and maintaining the public interest and commitment necessary to provide sufficient resources for the effort |
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Technology Focus |
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Spirometry |
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Facility Profile |
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Arkansas Heart Hospital |
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by Liz Finch |
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AHH's goals are achieved through decentralizing ancillary and support services, encouraging family involvement, and cross-training its staff to ensure caregiver continuity |
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The Importance of Sleep and Positioning |
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by Thomas M. Kilkenny, DO, FAASM, and Steve Grenard, RRT |
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Physicians must carefully note each epoch in all-night polysomnograms to understand how position affects the patient's condition and to determine proper treatment |
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Conscious Sedation-Are We Asleep at the Wheel? |
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by Gary J. Hospodar, MAOM, RRT, RCP |
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Health care professionals can benefit from a model designed to increase awareness and develop, implement, and monitor outcomes of a procedural conscious sedation program |
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Lung-Protective Strategies |
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by Patrick Yorio, RRT |
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Combining ventilator strategies and compliance-improving techniques will help clinicians keep patients ventilated at safe pressures |
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Speaking Out |
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by Valerie Kellogg, RRT, AAS, MA, MBA |
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Tracheostomized patients are benefiting from speaking valves through improved diets and restoration of the natural physiology of the airways, which improve cough mechanisms and manage secretions |
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