Massachusetts Society for Respiratory Care

28/04/2025

An Important SOAR Act Update and Next Steps For RTs!

Tuesday, April 29, 2025 at 3:00 p.m. ET / 2:00 p.m. CT

The Supplemental Oxygen Access Reform (SOAR) Act has been reintroduced in both the House and Senate! Join AARC's Senior Vice President of Government and Strategic Affairs, Miriam O'Day, and our coalition partners for an update on this legislation. Then it will be your turn to take action by emailing through our Muster Platform or by calling your Senators and Representatives to request their support for supplemental oxygen reform.

We need your help to get your members of Congress to co-sponsor the SOAR Act!

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The Supplemental Oxygen Access Reform (SOAR) Act has been reintroduced in both the House and Senate! Join us for an update on this legislation and then it will be your turn to take action by calling your Senators and Representative to request their support for supplemental oxygen reform. We need you...

23/04/2025

Calling all Educators, Managers and Leaders! Do you have any plans for the summer. Come and attend the AARC Summer Forum. Registration is now OPEN! Type in MA10OFF and get $10 off Summer Forum Registration. https://www.aarc.org/aarc-meetings/summer-forum-2025/

Hope to see you there!!

08/04/2025

We are now taking speaker submissions please visit: https://form.jotform.com/250976740246160

21/03/2025

Save the date!

Save the date! AARC’s Summer Forum 2025 will take place in Fort Lauderdale, FL, July 12–14.

18/03/2025

Let's hear it for ! are key to helping patients who have lung disease through acute episodes and pulmonary rehabilitation, improving lives and keeping patients healthy.

19/02/2025

! The caption for this vintage photo stated:
"Listening to Chest Sounds with the Ear to the Back: Germany 1916
The stethoscope, the first of modern medicine's necessary tools, was invented in 1818 by Rene Laennec, M.D. (1781-1826). It revolutionized diagnosis and treatment of chest disease and sparked the rise of the French School of Medicine. Because heart and lung sounds were magnified Laennec was able to establish a disease classification system based on the various tones detected. The use of this instrument also enabled the physician to remain at a safer distance from an infected patient. In this photograph, taken in the throes of World War I, a military physician places his head on a patient's back to listen to lung sounds. Prior to the Laennec stethoscope chest sounds were heard by simply placing the ear against the chest or back. As a quick screening method it worked for centuries. European physicians used this method and Laennec's simple tube stethoscope, well into the 1940s. An American physician, Dr. Cammann of New York, invented the binaural stethoscope in 1855. This advanced instrument was largely ignored by European physicians, perhaps because of its American origin. In the nineteenth century it was the American who traveled to Europe to learn the latest techniques. European physicians only came to the United States as invited dignitaries. It was not until after World War I that America became the acknowledged world leader in medical research, technique and education."

17/02/2025

Big shout out to my newest top fans! 💎

Christopher Piccuito, Carolyn La Vita, Sharon Southwick

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14/02/2025

From all of us here at the MSRC ! 🤝 🫁 💚Thank you for all that you do on a daily 👌
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14/02/2025

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05/02/2025

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