Faculty Perspective on Interprofessional Education Competencies: Respiratory Therapy Compared to Other Allied Health Professions.

Background: Interprofessional Education (IPE) provides a framework for collaborative education between health care specialties to improve patient care. In 2010, the Interprofessional Education Collaborative Expert Panel established the competencies of communication, ethics, roles and responsibilities, and teams and teamwork. Studies have assessed knowledge and attitudes about IPE in several allied health educational programs including respiratory therapy (RT).

Laboratory and echocardiography markers in sickle cell patients with leg ulcers.

Chronic leg ulcers are a debilitating complication of sickle cell disease, associated with increased morbidity and perhaps mortality that affect 8 to 50% of patients. We evaluated the characteristics of SCD patients with a history of leg ulceration, including hemolytic rate, estimated pulmonary artery systolic pressure, and other parameters in a cohort of 505 adults with SCD. Ninety four subjects (18%) had either active ulcers at enrollment or history of leg ulceration.

Imatinib-responsive hypereosinophilia in a patient with B cell ALL.

Hypereosinophilia is a rare presenting sign of acute lymphocytic leukemia. A 29-year-old male was diagnosed with idiopathic hypereosinophilic syndrome with respiratory symptoms. Although his peripheral blood eosinophilia decreased in response to treatment with imatinib mesylate, a follow-up bone marrow showed a diffuse infiltrate of myeloperoxidase-negative blasts.

Vaso-occlusion in children with sickle cell disease: clinical characteristics and biologic correlates.

Vaso-occlusive pain is a frequent manifestation of sickle cell disease, but most clinical studies have documented only those pain episodes for which patients seek acute care or require hospitalization. Based on limited previous studies, the authors suggest that pain episodes managed at home are more frequent then those resulting in acute care management but likely share a common pathophysiology. The authors determined the characteristics of vaso-occlusive pain managed at home in 30 subjects (ages 6-19 years) using a self-report diary daily for 6 months.

Physical and cognitive-behavioral activities used in the home management of sickle pain: a daily diary study in children and adolescents.

Background: There is little information documenting the use of cognitive-behavioral and physical pain relieving activities by children and adolescents for management of pain related to sickle cell disease (SCD).

Methods: Thirty-seven subjects (aged 6-21 years) used a daily self-report pain diary for 6 months to 3 years to report their home pain experience and its pharmacologic and non-pharmacologic management.

Results: A total of 514 vaso-occlusive pain episodes (2,592 days) were reported.

Caregiver report of pain in infants and toddlers with sickle cell disease: reliability and validity of a daily diary.

Pain is a hallmark sign of sickle cell disease (SCD) with more than 80% of vaso-occlusive episodes managed at home. This study explored the pyschometric properties of a daily pain and symptom diary and compliance of caregiver report in young children with SCD during a 1- to 2-year period. Compliance for completing diary entries for the first year with 16 caregivers was 90.

Characteristics of pain managed at home in children and adolescents with sickle cell disease by using diary self-reports.

Pain can begin in the first year of life for individuals with sickle cell disease (SCD) and continue in an unpredictably recurrent manner throughout their life span. Sickle vaso-occlusive pain (sickle pain) can also occur simultaneously with pain of other origins, complicating both assessment and management. Aims of this research were to describe the reliability and validity of a daily diary for data collection with children and adolescents with SCD and to describe characteristics of vaso-occlusive sickle pain episodes (VOE) and other pain reported by children and adolescents with SCD along with home pain management strategies.

Home management of pain in sickle cell disease: a daily diary study in children and adolescents.

Purpose: To determine the incidence of pain and the types of home pain management techniques used by children and adolescents with sickle cell disease (SCD) and their caregivers.

Patients And Methods: Thirty-seven children and adolescents (ages 6-21 years) with SCD used a self-report pain diary twice daily to report their pain experience and its management for 6 months to 3 years. A total of 18,377 diary days representing 514 distinct pain episodes were analyzed.