Dr. Shux Studios

A respiratory therapy game for your phone

Where's Respiratory?

Real patients, a real O2 cart, and an attending who is not impressed. Read the chart, grab the right device, set it right, and keep Dr. Shux from turning red.

Built by a practicing RT and RT instructor. Made for first-years through board prep.

BED 4 · WALT, 66 MCOPD
HR92
SpO285
RR20
BP146/90
MD
Well? What does he need?

Level 1 sample

Try a case

Darnell, 47 M
Nose packed after a nosebleed. Room air.
SpO2
89%
HR
92
RR
18
BP
140/88
Pick a device. In the game you drag it from the O2 cart onto the patient and set the flowmeter.

Five levels now, more on the way

From the cannula to the circuit

  1. LEVEL 1

    Who needs O2?

    Room air, nasal cannula, simple mask. Turn the flow up or down to hit the target.

  2. LEVEL 2

    Venturi & NRB

    Exact FiO2 orders, rapid responses, and COPD patients who need low and slow.

  3. LEVEL 3

    High flow & CPAP

    Flow and FiO2 on high-flow NC. CPAP for sleep apnea and pulmonary edema.

  4. LEVEL 4

    Read the gas

    Acidosis or alkalosis, respiratory or metabolic, and how compensated.

  5. LEVEL 5

    BiPAP

    IPAP fixes CO2, EPAP fixes O2. Start it, then titrate off the repeat ABG.

  6. FINAL BOSS

    Ventilators

    Modes, settings, and the alarms that go off at 3 a.m.

  7. BONUS ROUND

    ECMO titration

    Sweep and flow, for the ones who beat the vent.

The color strips follow Venturi adapter colors: 24% blue, 28% yellow, 31% white, 35% green, 40% pink, 50% orange.

Two ways in

For students and for programs

RT students

Study on the bus, between clinicals, or the night before the TMC.

  • 5 cases per shift, pulled at random from a pool, so no two shifts match
  • Every answer explains the why in one or two lines
  • Practice the direction of titration, not just the device
  • Streaks, scores, and a doctor who visibly loses it when you're wrong

RT programs & instructors

A low-stakes way for students to build O2 and NIV judgment before clinicals.

  • Cases follow NBRC-style conventions and standard targets
  • Starts at first-year level and builds to BiPAP and ABG interpretation
  • Instructors can write their own cases with a built-in case builder
  • Written by an active RT and RT instructor

Dr. Shux Studios

Sims for the people at the bedside

IN DEVELOPMENT

Where's Respiratory?

Oxygen devices, NIV, and blood gases for respiratory therapy students.

PLANNED

NRP sim

Neonatal resuscitation: the first golden minute, step by step.

PLANNED

ACLS sim

Run the code: rhythms, drugs, and timing.

Get it first

Join the waitlist to hear when Where's Respiratory? launches, and when the NRP and ACLS sims open for testing. Programs interested in a classroom pilot can say so on the form.

Join the waitlist

Opens a short Google Form. Takes 30 seconds.