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56 Cards in this Set
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What were the earliest records of practical medicine
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Mesopotamian and Egypt before 3000 BC
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Retinopathy of Prematurity (ROP) |
In the 1840s Too much oxygen was being delivered to babies Cause them to be blind |
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NBRC |
National board of respiratory care They do the board exams The TMC and CSE National credentialing organization for RT
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William Einthoven |
EKG's |
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Vital signs |
Pulse Post oximetery Respiratory rate Temperature Blood pressure |
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First national cardiopulmonary resuscitation |
Guidelines Published in 1961 |
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Iron lung |
Harvard 1928 Was used on polio patients cause they couldn't breathe on there own Allowed people to breathe Changes pressure on the inside Never move around in them |
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Respiratory care board of California |
Go to them after passed the boards and get credentials of the AARC , they give the license to work in CA as a respiratory care practitioner |
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Polio patients |
Became paralyzed in the lungs Used iron lung Couldn't move so they were at risk of pneumonia . Fluid build up caused bacteria causing pneumonia |
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Joseph Louis Gay Lussac |
gas law and how it applies to ventilating ppl |
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Respiration rate |
10-20 or 12-20 breathes per minute |
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Jonathan letterman |
First aid stations and triage |
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Virginia apgar |
Apgar score Used on babies Higher score more likely normal Based on physical appearance |
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Antonine Van Leeuwenhoek where |
Lenses and improved the early microscope |
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Where do we get the word hospital ? |
Latin word hospes English root word hospitality |
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Pulse Ox |
90-100% Anything less than 90 hypoxemia not enough to obtain life SpO2 |
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Hippocrates |
Father of medicine Hypocratic oath Establish medicine as its own disciple |
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John dalton |
Dalton's law and partial pressure |
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Pythagoras |
4 life's elements Earth Water Air Fire |
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Leonardo da Vinci |
First to dissect human Subatmospheric pressures needed to inflate mammalian lungs |
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Was medicine advanced in islamic or western countries first? |
Islamic transferred to the western world |
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Chavalier Jackson CS |
Invented the anesthetic laryngoscope in 1913 |
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CSRC |
California society of respiratory care Affiliate of the AARC represents RTs in CA and shows them to the world State organization |
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AARC |
American association of respiratory care Credentials RTs after they pass the NBRC board exams National organization that represents RTs nationally , issues protocols for which we practice |
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William Roentgen |
Discovered X-ray |
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Aristoltle |
First res. Experiment Discovered suffocation when animals are in tight chambers they die |
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Lawrence Henderson |
ABGs |
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When did RTs evolve |
1990s evolved to required skills |
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Antonie Lavoiser |
Discovered O2 and CO2 are part of metabolism n2 is unchanged in the breathing process |
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(+) ventilation |
Mechanical ventilation Began 1800s Allowed patients to breathe |
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Pneumonia |
High mortality rate when caught in the hosiptal through ventilation |
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Louis pasteur |
Germ theory |
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Earnest Henery starling |
Cardiac muscle physiology Frank sterling law |
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Robert Boyle |
Boyles law Founder of modern chemistry |
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Thomas beddoes |
Father of respiratory therapy Clinical use of O2 |
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Chineese |
Believed that the air was transferred directly to the soul when we breathed 2000 BC |
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Father of medicine |
Hippocrates of COS II |
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CoARC |
The commission on accreditation for respiratory care Is the national organization for accrediting universities and other educational institutions RC Educational programs Sets the institutions to high standards for the profession
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When was adrenaline made and why |
1912 for Asthma patients Was made available and delivered through a perfume type squeeze bottle. |
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Why do we breathe |
To remove CO2 because the levels are too high |
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Dr Archie brain |
Developed the laryngeal mask airway in the mid 1980s |
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Rene t.h. Laennec |
Inventor of the stethoscope |
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Karl Albert hasselbalch |
ABG's First to Determine the ph of blood |
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How many accredited RT programs are there |
315 |
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Elizabeth Blackwell |
1849 first woman to get a medical degree |
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(-) breath ventilation |
What we breath or how we breath |
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1949 |
Ultrasonic nebulizers were available |
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Blood pressure |
120/80 mmHg (torr) Systolic/diastolic 90-130/60-10060/ |
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Pulse |
60-100 beats per minute bpm >100 tachycardia <60 bradycardia |
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Daniel Bernouli |
Studied fluid and gas hydrodynamics stated they were same |
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First hospital |
Academy of Gudishapur |
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Temperature |
98.6 f or 37 c >37 fever < 37 hypothermic |
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Peter safar |
CPR advocated it and began teaching it Closed chest circulation methods manual or mechanical ventilation |
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Florence nightingale |
Nurse Early medical sanitation and statistician Death rate 42% to 2% Due to importance of diets and activity |
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Teacheotomy |
Artificial airway Ancient medical procedure First done by German surgeon fredrich trendenburg in 1869 |
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When were vapors and sprays from waiter thermal spa waters or antiseptics for tuberculosis popular |
Through out the 19th century |
