To all Respiratory Therapy Students, Practitioners and Allied Health Professionals
This site is to provide additional resources for respiratory therapy students.
All materials are free to use as tools to facilitate learning but no information or resources provided within this site are to be used to make patient care decisions without the express consent and review by a Registered Respiratory Therapist.
Please contact me with any questions or comments you may have regarding any aspect of this site or respiratory therapy.
Allan Prost RRT Instructor: allan.prost@sait.ca
Page Descriptions and Links:
Reference videos on mechanical ventilation
Reference videos on pulmonary function testing
General therapeutic videos
Information on ETT resistance
Information on Time Constants and Inspiratory Flow with Pressure Control Ventilation
Respiratory Therapy Algorithms:
A series of flow diagrams to demonstrate procedural steps and decision making
This page links presentations that display the modes, control interactions, patient interactions, and ventilator waveforms.
It also has a series of worksheets that can be downloaded and used to tabulate the results viewed in the presentations.
This page links to tools for ABG classification and interpretation.
Who is Allan Prost RRT: An introduction by Zimbot.