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Posted on: July 26, 2006
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By Debra Yemenijian
ADVANCE for Respiratory Care and Sleep Medicine
Being sent to the salt mines is no longer the punishment it was centuries ago. Today, physicians in Eastern Europe are combining speleotherapy - treatment in caves and salt mines - with medical therapy for respiratory care. Felix Botchkowski, a Polish health official, first described speleotherapy in 1843. He noted that salt miners rarely suffered from respiratory illnesses. Botchkowski and many ...
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Posted on: June 13, 2006
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By Debra Yemenijian
ADVANCE for Respiratory Care and Sleep Medicine
From the time she was 4 years old, Carol McConnell, DVM, had big dreams of becoming a veterinarian. After eight years of veterinary school and three years in practice, however, her career came to a screeching halt. "Some people think it's a joke when I tell them that I'm a veterinarian who can't practice because I'm allergic to animals," said Dr. McConnell, 42, of Brea, Calif. Although she ...
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Posted on: May 16, 2005
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By Debra Yemenijian
ADVANCE for Respiratory Care and Sleep Medicine
Aspirin is used to prevent headaches and heart attacks, but for the 20 million Americans living with asthma, reaching for that little white tablet could be dangerous. Aspirin and other nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) can provoke bronchospasm in aspirin-sensitive asthma patients, resulting in a reaction aptly named aspirin-induced asthma. In rare cases, the reaction can be fatal. A ...
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Posted on: September 7, 2004
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By Debra Yemenijian
ADVANCE for Respiratory Care and Sleep Medicine
The average school-age child spends 35 to 50 hours per week in and around school buildings. However, students may be getting more than just lessons in reading, writing and arithmetic. From pesticides to mold, schools can be a major source of toxins and indoor air pollutants that can test a young person's respiratory system. Up to half of U.S. schools house problems affecting indoor air quality, ...
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Posted on: May 30, 2007
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By Debra Yemenijian
ADVANCE for Respiratory Care and Sleep Medicine
Aaron Bissell and his twin brother, Eric, surprised their parents when they said hello to the world 14 weeks early in 1993. The boys presented many of the common problems of prematurity, and they spent three months in neonatal intensive care before heading home. But the ventilator and endotracheal tube that kept Aaron alive in the NICU left him with scar tissue and narrowing in his trachea. ...
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Posted on: December 27, 2006
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By Debra Yemenijian
ADVANCE for Respiratory Care and Sleep Medicine
Paul Kahn knows a thing or two about the performing arts. A playwright and avid supporter of the Boston theater scene, he has seen his work staged around the U.S. and even directed a couple plays. But for Kahn, the greatest challenge isn't finding the perfect actor to breathe life into his script. For 19 of his 60 years, Kahn has relied on a ventilator to cope with a progressive neuromuscular ...
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Posted on: May 15, 2007
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By Debra Yemenijian
ADVANCE for Respiratory Care and Sleep Medicine
Paul Kahn knows a thing or two about the performing arts. A playwright and avid supporter of the Boston theater scene, he has seen his work staged around the U.S. and even directed a couple plays. But for Kahn, the greatest challenge isn't finding the perfect actor to breathe life into his script. For 19 of his 60 years, Kahn has relied on a ventilator to cope with a progressive neuromuscular ...
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Posted on: May 15, 2007
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By Debra Yemenijian
ADVANCE for Respiratory Care and Sleep Medicine
Paul Kahn knows a thing or two about the performing arts. A playwright and avid supporter of the Boston theater scene, he has seen his work staged around the U.S. and even directed a couple plays. But for Kahn, the greatest challenge isn't finding the perfect actor to breathe life into his script. For 19 of his 60 years, Kahn has relied on a ventilator to cope with a progressive neuromuscular ...
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Posted on: December 27, 2006
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Last Updated: January 9, 2007
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By Debra Yemenijian
ADVANCE for Respiratory Care and Sleep Medicine
Paul Kahn knows a thing or two about the performing arts. A playwright and avid supporter of the Boston theater scene, he has seen his work staged around the U.S. and even directed a couple plays. But for Kahn, the greatest challenge isn't finding the perfect actor to breathe life into his script. For 19 of his 60 years, Kahn has relied on a ventilator to cope with a progressive neuromuscular ...
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Posted on: November 29, 2006
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By Debra Yemenijian
ADVANCE for Respiratory Care and Sleep Medicine
You can't see it, it's electric! Anyone versed in lung physiology knows our brains transmit electrical impulses to the phrenic nerve. This nerve excites the diaphragm, which rises and falls to the rhythm of the impulses. You gotta feel it, it's electric! This "electric slide" between the brain and the lungs occurs thousands of times each day to keep us breathing in time - even in mechanically ...
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