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Respiratory therapists help people breathe. And they’ve never been as valued as during the COVID-19 pandemic, when breathing was no longer a basic body function. “It was surreal,” says Roger Plummer, ...

Respiratory therapy has increased in visibility since 2020 as these specialists were thrust to the front lines during COVID-19 to deal with patients experiencing breathing issues. Respiratory ...

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Jessica Murphy heard the stories describing how hard-hit respiratory therapists were among the hospital workers who battled the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. The therapists manned the ventilators for ...

Respiratory therapists across the country have been feeling the strain of staffing shortages in their field for months. Patient prioritization has often been a necessity during the pandemic, which ...

Novant Health respiratory therapist Candy Yow remembers when a few months ago, she hooked a COVID-19 patient up to a breathing machine. The patient was in her early twenties and hadn’t been vaccinated ...

DAYTON, Ohio (WDTN) — Garrett Robinson, a registered respiratory therapist, was a student working at Miami Valley Hospital during the height of the pandemic. He saw first-hand the damage that COVID-19 ...

The incidence of respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, in the United States is moderate right now but the CDC is tracking a steady climb of the illness as winter takes hold. This is happening as the ...

Fountain Valley Regional Hospital & Medical Center respiratory therapists — whose skills and training place them squarely in the epicenter of the coronavirus pandemic — are describing increasingly ...

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