ADVANCE for Respiratory Care and Sleep Medicine

An Emerging Role for Asthma Education

By Colleen Mullarkey — November 2, 2009

AAE President Tim Op't Holt, RRT, talks about the expanding reach of asthma educators in the medical community.

Asthma Education Emergency

By Kristen Ziegler — November 2, 2009

Busy EDs Take Time to Improve Asthma Management

Billing for Incentive Spirometry

By Ray Cathey, PA-C, MHA, FAHC, CHCC — November 2, 2009

Q: A physician's office has called us regarding the billing of "incentive" spirometry. I cannot find a reimbursable code. Will Medicare or any other insurance actually pay for incentive spirometry for home use?

A: If the physician's office wants to know how they would get paid for providing patients with an incentive spirometer, they would have to become a DME supplier in order to get paid by Medicare. If they're looking for a code to pay

Covidien integrates the NellcorT OxiMaxT SpO2 system into Nihon Kohden's BSM-9100 bedside monitor product line

November 5, 2009

Nov. 5, 2009

The Nellcor™ OxiMax™ pulse oximetry system from Covidien, Boulder, Colo., has been integrated into Nihon Kohden's BSM-9100 series of bedside monitors, enabling clinicians to have easy, concurrent access to both technologies.

Since 2008, the OxiMax pulse oximetry system has been integrated with the Nihon Kohden BSM-6000 line of bedside monitor

Déjà Vu All Over Again

By Brent Swager, RRT — November 2, 2009

"I must be losing it," I told Danny. "I just got a call from the pediatric floor. They want me to come up and do a treatment on the kid in 320 before they release him."

"Yeah?" my supervisor asked. "So what's wrong with that?"

"It must be déjà vu," I laughed uneasily. "I have the strongest feeling that I got this very same call yesterday."

"You're getting older and maybe your mind is slipping," Danny said. "I'd put you out to pasture or at least lock you in the broken

Education Emergency

by Kristen Ziegler — November 2, 2009

References

Improving Asthma Education

By Kristen Ziegler — November 2, 2009

More tips on making the most of time with patients in the emergency department.

Letters To The Editor - November 2009

November 2, 2009

Smoking Confession Draws Reader Support

Editors' Note: ADVANCE Blogger Stephanie Scarbrough, RRT, confessed to her 14-year smoking habit in a recent post. (Read the post.) She finally beat the addiction then learned she was pregnant. In Scarbrough's blog, she asked for comments from readers. Here is what some of you

Looking for Worms

Sharlene George — November 2, 2009

Maril Products pursues EPA notification process for Control III effectiveness against 2009 H1N1 Pandemic

November 5, 2009

Nov. 5, 2009

The Environmental Protection Agency will allow a product with demonstrated effectiveness against influenza A virus to claim effectiveness against all influenza A viruses, including H1N1. Maril Products, Tustin, Calif., will submit notification for its concentrate Control III disinfectant/germicide and ready-to-use Control III laboratory/germicide.

The company expects to receive formal notification of acceptance

November - Volume 18, Number 9

November 2, 2009

Resources

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