respiratory care march 1999 pp 367 i would recommend this book to anyone who is interested in enhancing student learning it is one of the few texts that introduces the concepts of critical thinking and pbl and then provides exercises cases within the context of respiratory therapy education and training respiratory care march 1999 pp 367. Critical thinking cases in respiratory care wood med rrt kathleen j 9780803601536 books amazonca. Critical thinking cases in respiratory carepdf below the heedless super spreader but perhaps bay areas soaring coronavirus cases could overwhelm our local health care system experts warn and hospital numbers tend to lag 10 to 14 days behind cases so the new infections reported now arent yet straining the health care system but shes worried about the increase in patients not just . Critical thinking is also necessary as the rt evaluates evidence based research in order to develop and evaluate care plans or recommend changes in respiratory therapy protocols 3 the ability to think critically is an essential component of providing quality respiratory care to patients. Experts using reputational case selection the research involved observations of 18 registered respiratory therapists followed by in depth interviews data were collected over a 1 year period and there were 125 hours of observation and 36 hours of interview the observations were the basis for identifying and describing context bound situations that require critical thinking as well as the