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Patient Education Handouts

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ADVANCE is proud to offer patient handouts as an educational tool for patients. Please feel free to print these educational handouts and download these podcasts and videos, and distribute them to your patients. If you have suggestions, e-mail editor Judi Biederman.

Asthma

Asthma Management for Elderly Patients

Give this large print handout to elderly patients to help them understand the medication delivery devices available specifically for them.

More Asthma Handouts

COPD

Risk Factors for COPD

Share with patients the factors that increase their odds of developing manage COPD

More COPD Handouts

Pediatrics

What Is Cystic Fibrosis?

Teach patients' parents the causes, symptoms, treatments.

More Pediatrics Handouts

Sleep

What Is a CPAP Titation Study?

Share with patients this guide to help them understand how a simple test can help improve their night's sleep.

More Sleep Handouts

Sarcoidosis

The cause of sarcoidosis remains unidentified, and there's no known way to prevent the disease. Share with patients what we do know.

More Patient Handouts

Audio Primers

Nebulizers On The Go

Share with patients this podcast about a convenient way to treat asthma.

More Audio Primers

Home Health

Vacationing With Portable Oxygen

Help patients learn how to get away by plane, by train, by car, or by bus.

More Home Health Handouts

Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Maintaining Progress After Pulmonary Rehabilitation

Prepare patients for keeping up with exercises at home.

More Pulmonary Rehabilitation Handouts

Ventilation

Noninvasive Ventilation

An easier path to breathing help in the ICU and beyond.

More Ventilation Handouts

En EspaÑol

Airway Clearance Therapy

Give Spanish-speaking patients this worksheet to help them understand how airway clearance therapy can help clear mucus out of the airways.

More Spanish Handouts:

I have one extremely important question. Why do Physicians and Surgeons and nurses think that everyone needs a breathing treatment when the Oxygen saturation drops or when the patient is short of breath without any Pulmonary history? I am very frustrated and am tired of being a therapist when we are abused. Why don't all of the big whigs in Respiratory Care help educate the Clinics, Physician's offices, hospitals and the community on who REALLY needs a bronchodilator. The big whigs are too busy writing and publishing things that do not help or profession in the most common, basic therapy we do. We do a lot of unnecessary treatments.

Omar Hossin	May 28, 2011
Saint Louis , MO

You perform a very valuable service. I wish you could update some of your presentations, which go back to 2003!

Vlady Rozenbaum, Administrator, Internet	September 24, 2009
Silver Spring, MD

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