Continuing Education

Professional Education Portal

Lung Sask in collaboration with RESPTREC^® offers the Professional Education Portal as a method for respiratory educators and health care providers to enhance their professional learning with continuing education opportunities.

Read articles and watch video presentations on the most recent research, position papers and guidelines. Track your CE hours with the provided logbook.

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RESPTREC^® resources

Download or order branded resources for your workplace:

• Asthma Medications Brochure
• COPD Medications Brochure
• Delivery Device Instructions
• Delivery Device Mastery Sheets
• Inhaler Device Demonstration Videos

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Recent News & Articles

For your convenience the Professional Education Portal & RESPTREC^® provide links to research articles, announcements, studies and other news updates which are posted daily onto the website.

Reading these articles can be used towards recertification and continuing education.

Use of Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems and Age of Asthma

May 18, 2024

This cohort study of 7766 adults and 17 023 youths from the Population Assessment of Tobacco and Health Study (2013-2021) found that adults who used ENDS in the past 30-days had an increased risk for asthma incidence at earlier ages vs adults who did not use ENDS in the past 30 days.…

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Cannabis smoking is associated with advanced epigenetic age

May 11, 2024

Current cannabis smoking is significantly associated with faster peripheral blood epigenetic age acceleration; interestingly, cannabis smoking cessation is shown to normalise this age acceleration signal

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Advances in COPD imaging using CT and MRI

May 11, 2024

Novel structural and functional radiological markers derived from CT and MRI in patients with COPD are useful in disease phenotyping and therapeutic decisions. These parameters are linked with common physiological tests and important clinical outcomes.

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