This section of the website includes articles on respiratory conditions and issues, as well as trachs, vents, and oxygen.
General
- Persevere into Problem Solving: Using an Ambu Bag
- Life with Aspiration and a Feeding Tube
- Collaborating and Planning for Respiratory Season
- How My Son’s Medical Complexity Inspired a Career in Respiratory Therapy
- A Cold Isn’t Just a Cold Around Here
- Secretion Management and Respiratory Health
- 10 Tips to Breathing Easier: Air Quality Improvements for Kids with Respiratory Conditions
Trach, Vent, BiPAP/CPAP
- “T” is for Transitions, Toughness, Terrific: Living Life to a Capital “T” with a Trach
- Persevere into Problem Solving: Using an Ambu Bag
- 10 Tips to Breathing Easier: Air Quality Improvements for Kids with Respiratory Conditions
- Secretion Management and Respiratory Health
- Hurricanes, Tornadoes, Fires, and Floods OH MY!
- Emergency Preparedness During Travel
- Making the Trach Decision
- Two Vents, a Tent, and a TRACH!
- Treating Recurrent Infections: Are We Too Heavy-Handed with the Antibiotics?
- Evalee’s Journey to a Trach
- Everything I Wish I Had Known Before Our Trach-Vent Journey
- To Trach or Not to Trach?
- Life after the Trach: Not So Simple
- Finding my Superpower: On Becoming a Trach Mom
- Global Tracheostomy Tube Awareness Week
- Samantha’s Trach Story
- Overcoming the Trach Fear
- Trach Basics: Pediatric Trach Types
- To BiPAP or Not to BiPAP — That is the Question
- “Can We Trach Her Tomorrow?”
- Trach Tips!
- Helpful Hints for Trach/Vent Equipment and Supplies
- Our Tracheostomy Journey
- Breathing Pacers for Children who Require Ventilator Support
- Trached and Traveled: The Trach To-Go Bag
- Global Tracheostomy Tube Awareness Week
- Ventilator Alphabet Soup
- Infection Control for Trachs
- Non-Invasive Ventilation: When a Trach Isn’t the Best Choice
- All About Blood Gases
- Surviving a Power Outage with Complex Medical Issues
- Quality of Life: Tubes, Lines, and Other Attachments
Oxygen
- 10 Tips to Breathing Easier: Air Quality Improvements for Kids with Respiratory Conditions
- 5 Tips for Using Oxygen at Disney World
- Young Children with NEHI: Living on Oxygen
- 50 Feet of Freedom and Fun: Having an Active Child on Continuous Oxygen and other Respiratory Support
- Let My Kid Go to School!
- Life on a Tether: Why Can’t Kids Get Portable Oxygen Concentrators?
- Surviving a Power Outage with Complex Medical Issues
Treatments
- Persevere into Problem Solving: Using an Ambu Bag
- Secretion Management and Respiratory Health
- Intrapulmonary Percussive Ventilation (IPV): Another Option for Airway Clearance
- 5 Rules of Suction Etiquette
- Treatment Options in Cystic Fibrosis
- Recent Improvements in Medical Equipment for Children with Respiratory Conditions
- Managing Oral and Respiratory Secretions
- Trach Tips!
Respiratory Conditions
- Dual Rare Diagnoses: Maple Syrup Urine Disease and Cystic Fibrosis
- Young Children with NEHI: Living on Oxygen
- Treatment Options in Cystic Fibrosis
- Mom Knows Best: A Journey to Cystic Fibrosis
- Aerophagia: From Eating Air to Eating Food
- RSV: A Devastating Respiratory Virus
- Living Life with Congenital Central Hypoventilation Syndrome
- Raising Awareness: The Example of Breath of Hope
Articles from the Archives
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- Noisy Breathing: Stridor in Children with Low Trunk Tone
- Cystic Fibrosis? When Doctors Disagree on the Diagnosis
- NEHI: A Rare Diagnosis after Misdiagnosis
- Understanding Hypoventilation and Its Treatment
- Asthma and the Child with Special Needs
- The Importance of a Good Respiratory Routine
- Surviving a Sleep Study
- Treating Obstructive Sleep Apnea in Children with CPAP or BiPAP
- Caeley’s Voice: Passy-Muir Valves for Kids with Trachs
- Breathing Easy: A Trach at Home
- Being a Kid: Thriving with a Trach and Vent
- Your Child CAN Go To Camp Camps for Children on Vents
- Surviving Oxygen Therapy
- Breathing Easier: Airway Clearance Using High-Frequency Chest Wall Oscillation
- Give Me Some Damn Oxygen!
- The Importance of a Good Respiratory Routine