39th Annual Northwest AHEC Respiratory Care Conference

1.   Artificial intelligence in respiratory care: knowledge, perceptions, and practices—a cross-sectional study

Jithin K. Sreedharan, Asma Alharbi, Amal Alsomali, Gokul Krishna Gopalakrishnan, Abdullah Almojaibel, Rawan Alajmi, Ibrahim Albalawi, Musallam Alnasser, Meshal Alenezi, Abdullah Alqahtani, Mohammed Alahmari, Eidan Alzahrani, Manjush Karthika

Front Artif Intell. 2024; 7: 1451963. Published online 2024 Sep 3. doi: 10.3389/frai.2024.1451963

2.  Artificial intelligence in respiratory care: Current scenario and future perspective

Saad Al-Anazi, Awad Al-Omari, Safug Alanazi, Aqeelah Marar, Mohammed Asad, Fadi Alawaji, Salman Alwateid

Ann Thorac Med. 2024 Apr-Jun; 19(2): 117–130. Published online 2024 Feb 16. doi: 10.4103/atm.atm_192_23

3.  Unveiling the Influence of AI on Advancements in Respiratory Care: Narrative Review

Mohammed M Alqahtani, Abdullah M M Alanazi, Saleh S Algarni, Hassan Aljohani, Faraj K Alenezi, Tareq F Alotaibi, Mansour Alotaibi, Mobarak K Alqahtani, Mushabbab Alahmari, Khalid S Alwadeai, Saeed M Alghamdi, Mohammed A Almeshari, Turki Faleh Alshammari, Noora Mumenah, Ebtihal Al Harbi, Ziyad F Al Nufaiei, Eyas Alhuthail, Esam Alzahrani, Husam Alahmadi, Abdulaziz Alarifi, Amal Zaidan, Taha T Ismaeil

Interact J Med Res. 2024; 13: e57271. Published online 2024 Dec 20. doi: 10.2196/57271

4.  Exploring knowledge gaps and research needs in respiratory therapy: A qualitative description study

Marco Zaccagnini, Andrew West, Esther Khor, Shirley Quach, Mika L. Nonoyama

Can J Respir Ther. 2024; 60: 1–12. Published online 2024 Jan 3. doi: 10.29390/001c.91184

5.  Artificial intelligence in respiratory care

Manjush Karthika, Jithin K. Sreedharan, Madhuragauri Shevade, Chris Sara Mathew, Santosh Ray

Front Digit Health. 2024; 6: 1502434. Published online 2024 Dec 23. doi: 10.3389/fdgth.2024.1502434

6.  Development of an Interactive AI System for the Optimal Timing Prediction of Successful Weaning from Mechanical Ventilation for Patients in Respiratory Care Centers

Kuang-Ming Liao, Shian-Chin Ko, Chung-Feng Liu, Kuo-Chen Cheng, Chin-Ming Chen, Mei-I Sung, Shu-Chen Hsing, Chia-Jung Chen

Diagnostics (Basel) 2022 Apr; 12(4): 975. Published online 2022 Apr 13. doi: 10.3390/diagnostics12040975

7.  An artificial intelligence system to predict the optimal timing for mechanical ventilation weaning for intensive care unit patients: A two-stage prediction approach

Chung-Feng Liu, Chao-Ming Hung, Shian-Chin Ko, Kuo-Chen Cheng, Chien-Ming Chao, Mei-I Sung, Shu-Chen Hsing, Jhi-Joung Wang, Chia-Jung Chen, Chih-Cheng Lai, Chin-Ming Chen, Chong-Chi Chiu

Front Med (Lausanne) 2022; 9: 935366. Published online 2022 Nov 18. doi: 10.3389/fmed.2022.935366

8.  Artificial intelligence in respiratory care: perspectives on critical opportunities and challenges

David Drummond, Ireti Adejumo, Kjeld Hansen, Vitalii Poberezhets, Gregory Slabaugh, Chi Yan Hui

Breathe (Sheff) 2024 Oct; 20(3): 230189. Published online 2024 Dec 10. doi: 10.1183/20734735.0189-2023

9.  Applications of artificial intelligence in emergency and critical care diagnostics: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Jithin K. Sreedharan, Fred Saleh, Abdullah Alqahtani, Ibrahim Ahmed Albalawi, Gokul Krishna Gopalakrishnan, Hadi Abdullah Alahmed, Basem Ahmed Alsultan, Dhafer Mana Alalharith, Musallam Alnasser, Ayedh Dafer Alahmari, Manjush Karthika

Front Artif Intell. 2024; 7: 1422551. Published online 2024 Oct 4. doi: 10.3389/frai.2024.1422551

1.  Exploring the professionalization of respiratory therapy in Canada

Marco Zaccagnini, André Bussières, Peter Nugus, Andrew West, Aliki Thomas

Can J Respir Ther. 2021; 57: 129–137. Published online 2021 Oct 8. doi: 10.29390/cjrt-2021-046

2.  The scholarly and practice profile of respiratory therapists in Canada: A cross-sectional survey

Marco Zaccagnini, André Bussières, Peter Nugus, Andrew West, Aliki Thomas

Can J Respir Ther. 2024; 60: 122–139. Published online 2024 Aug 30. doi: 10.29390/001c.122345

3.  Enhancing scholarly practice in respiratory therapy: A call for professional evolution

Elizabeth Rohrs

Can J Respir Ther. 2024; 60: 140–142. Published online 2024 Aug 30. doi: 10.29390/001c.122734

4.  Use and effects of implementation strategies for practice guidelines in nursing: a systematic review

Christine E. Cassidy, Margaret B. Harrison, Christina Godfrey, Vera Nincic, Paul A. Khan, Patricia Oakley, Amanda Ross-White, Hilary Grantmyre, Ian D. Graham

Implement Sci. 2021; 16: 102. Published online 2021 Dec 4. doi: 10.1186/s13012-021-01165-5

5.  Advancing Precision Medicine in Paediatrics: Past, present and future

Abdelbaset Elzagallaai, Charlotte Barker, Tamorah Lewis, Ronald Cohn, Michael Rieder

Camb Prism Precis Med. 2023; 1: e11. Published online 2023 Jan 10. doi: 10.1017/pcm.2022.14

6.  Age–sex differences in the global burden of lower respiratory infections and risk factors, 1990–2019: results from the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

GBD 2019 LRI Collaborators

Lancet Infect Dis. 2022 Nov; 22(11): 1626–1647. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(22)00510-2

7.  Assets and needs of respiratory patient organizations: differences between developed and developing countries

Yousser Mohammad, Antje-H. Fink-Wagner, Dmitry Nonikov

J Thorac Dis. 2013 Dec; 5(6): 914–918. doi: 10.3978/j.issn.2072-1439.2013.08.72

8.  A Research Agenda to Improve Outcomes in Patients with Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease and Cardiovascular Disease: An Official American Thoracic Society Research Statement

Laura C. Myers, Jennifer K. Quint, Nathaniel M. Hawkins, Nirupama Putcha, Alan Hamilton, Peter Lindenauer, J. Michael Wells, Leah J. Witt, Sagar P. Shah, Todd Lee, Huong Nguyen, Caroline Gainer, Allan Walkey, David M. Mannino, Surya P. Bhatt, R. Graham Barr, Richard Mularski, Mark Dransfield, Sadiya S. Khan, Andrea S. Gershon, Miguel Divo, Valerie G. Press

Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2024 Sep 15; 210(6): 715–729. Published online 2024 Sep 1. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202407-1320ST

9.  Educational aspects of rare and orphan lung diseases

Tiago M. Alfaro, Marlies S. Wijsenbeek, Pippa Powell, Daiana Stolz, John R. Hurst, Michael Kreuter, Catharina C. Moor

Respir Res. 2021; 22: 92. Published online 2021 Mar 24. doi: 10.1186/s12931-021-01676-1

10.  Electronic cigarettes for smoking cessation

Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021; 2021(4): CD010216. Published online 2021 Apr 29. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD010216.pub5

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Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2021; 2021(9): CD010216.

1.  Lung Function in Fontan Patients Over a Ten-Year Period: Is the Fontan Circulation Impairing Lung Development?

Maren Ravndal, Lars Idorn, Kim Gjerum Nielsen, Vibeke Hjortdal

Pediatr Cardiol. 2024; 45(3): 500–512. Published online 2024 Jan 25. doi: 10.1007/s00246-023-03389-2

2.  Effects of repetition as training and incentives on the performance in pulmonary function tests in healthy volunteers

Julia Krabbe, Annika K. Kotro, Thomas Kraus

Heliyon. 2023 Jun; 9(6): e17594. Published online 2023 Jun 22. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2023.e17594

3.  Safety and use of pulmonary function tests: a retrospective study from a single center over seven years’ clinical practice

Fei Li, Zhi-wen Huang, Xiao-fei Wang, Hui-wen Xu, Hua Yu, Yan-bin Chen, Jian-an Huang, Jia-jia Wang, Wei Lei

BMC Pulm Med. 2019; 19: 259. Published online 2019 Dec 21. doi: 10.1186/s12890-019-1019-z

4.  Comparison of BMD Changes and Bone Formation Marker Levels 3 Years After Bisphosphonate Discontinuation: FLEX and HORIZON-PFT Extension I Trials

Tiffany Y Kim, Douglas C Bauer, Brian L McNabb, Anne L Schafer, Felicia Cosman, Dennis M Black, Richard Eastell

J Bone Miner Res. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2023 Aug 29.

Published in final edited form as: J Bone Miner Res. 2019 May; 34(5): 810–816. Published online 2019 Jan 15. doi: 10.1002/jbmr.3654

5.  Race and Ethnicity in Pulmonary Function Test Interpretation: An Official American Thoracic Society Statement

Nirav R. Bhakta, Christian Bime, David A. Kaminsky, Meredith C. McCormack, Neeta Thakur, Sanja Stanojevic, Aaron D. Baugh, Lundy Braun, Stephanie Lovinsky-Desir, Rosemary Adamson, Jonathan Witonsky, Robert A. Wise, Sean D. Levy, Robert Brown, Erick Forno, Robyn T. Cohen, Meshell Johnson, John Balmes, Yolanda Mageto, Cathryn T. Lee, Refiloe Masekela, Daniel J. Weiner, Charlie G. Irvin, Erik R. Swenson, Margaret Rosenfeld, Richard M. Schwartzstein, Anurag Agrawal, Enid Neptune, Juan P. Wisnivesky, Victor E. Ortega, Peter Burney

Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2023 Apr 15; 207(8): 978–995. Published online 2023 Apr 15. doi: 10.1164/rccm.202302-0310ST

6.  Breathing, Obstruction, Restriction, and Gas Exchange: A Pulmonary Function Testing Interpretation Framework for Novice Learners

Ryan E. Nelson, Jeremy B. Richards

ATS Sch. 2023 Jun; 4(2): 230–240. Published online 2023 Apr 11. doi: 10.34197/ats-scholar.2022-0062HT

7.  Addressing Race in Pulmonary Function Testing by Aligning Intent and Evidence With Practice and Perception

Nirav R. Bhakta, David A. Kaminsky, Christian Bime, Neeta Thakur, Graham L. Hall, Meredith C. McCormack, Sanja Stanojevic

Chest. 2022 Jan; 161(1): 288–297. Published online 2021 Aug 24. doi: 10.1016/j.chest.2021.08.053

8.  Development and validation of a pulmonary function test data extraction tool for the US department of veterans affairs electronic health record

Alexander S. Rabin, Julien B. Weinstein, Sarah M. Seelye, Taylor N. Whittington, Cainnear K. Hogan, Hallie C. Prescott

BMC Res Notes. 2024; 17: 115. Published online 2024 Apr 23. doi: 10.1186/s13104-024-06770-3

9.  Collaboration between explainable artificial intelligence and pulmonologists improves the accuracy of pulmonary function test interpretation

Nilakash Das, Sofie Happaerts, Iwein Gyselinck, Michael Staes, Eric Derom, Guy Brusselle, Felip Burgos, Marco Contoli, Anh Tuan Dinh-Xuan, Frits M.E. Franssen, Sherif Gonem, Neil Greening, Christel Haenebalcke, William D-C. Man, Jorge Moisés, Rudi Peché, Vitalii Poberezhets, Jennifer K. Quint, Michael C. Steiner, Eef Vanderhelst, Mustafa Abdo, Marko Topalovic, Wim Janssens

Eur Respir J. 2023 May; 61(5): 2201720. Published online 2023 May 18. doi: 10.1183/13993003.01720-2022

10.  ASSESSING AND RESPONDING TO STRESS RELATED TO PULMONARY FUNCTION TESTING IN CYSTIC FIBROSIS THROUGH QUALITY IMPROVEMENT

Kelsey Nusbaum, Stephanie Filigno, Julie Feldstein, Elizabeth Hente, Elizabeth Koch, Lisa Mullen, Jeanne Weiland, Thomas Boat, Christopher Siracusa

Pediatr Pulmonol. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2022 Feb 23.

Published in final edited form as: Pediatr Pulmonol. 2020 May; 55(5): 1139–1146. Published online 2020 Feb 10. doi: 10.1002/ppul.24673