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31 Cards in this Set
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What is Respiratory Therapy? |
the promotion of cardiopulmonary function and health |
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Which 2 bodily systems do rrt's mostly treat? |
CardioPulmonary |
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What types of things to RRT's do? |
measure, educate, assess, manage, report, collaborate |
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Where do RRT's work? |
acute and chronic care |
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When did O2 therapy start? |
1940's |
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Who was the first RRT? |
Mary Yvonne Jenn |
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When did RT become a profession? |
1974 |
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Which organization licenses RRT's? |
NBRC national board of resp. care |
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which organization performs advocacy? |
AARC american assoc. resp. care |
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which organization is in charge of credentials? |
NBRC national board of resp care |
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which organization accredits schools? |
CoArc committee on accreditation resp. care |
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When was asthma first treated in egypt? |
1550 BC |
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Who was said to have given the first mouth to mouth resusciation? |
Elijah in 800 BC |
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What was used in 1542 for a patient to beathe through a hole in their neck and trachea? |
a reed |
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what artist and inventor also studied the lungs? |
Leonardo de Vinci |
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What did boyle study? |
pressure and volume |
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What did Charles study? |
vol. and temp |
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what did Dalton study? |
partial pressure and total pressure |
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What did Gay-Lussac study? |
pressure and temp |
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What did Joseph Priestly do? |
he discovered oxygen in 1774 |
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What did Rene Laennec do? |
Invented the stethoscope in 1816 |
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Who advocated mouth to mouth resuscitation in drowning? |
Fothergill |
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What year did John Hunter reccomend using a fireplace bellows to pump air into the lungs? |
1776 |
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Who invented the iron lung? |
Phillip Drinker |
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What type of ventilators were introduced in the 1990's? |
postive pressure ventilators, oscillators and high frequency |
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How long have people been designing tubes to be placed in patients airways to help them breathe? |
since 160 AD |
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How old is the formal study of breathing during sleep? |
it has been around since 1980 |
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What will affect the profession of respiratory care? |
technology, demographics, aging population, economic climate, collaboration ability, professionalism, advanced degrees |
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Why should RRT's consider getting an advanced degree? |
advanced influence and role expansion as a physician extender |
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What are specialties that RRT's can move into or develop proffesionaly |
Assessment tools, protocol-based care, care plan development, consults, hopital safe practice and disease prevention, gertiatrics, neonatal care, sports medicine, research and invention entrepreneurs |
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What was it that the AARC does? |
performs advocacy |
