Oxygen therapy

With all of the advances that have been made in respiratory care, it leaves us with a number of different therapies and equipment available to suit the needs of patients from any age, disease, and demographic. Though these different options are accessible to most acute care hospitals, there is not enough education being done for the proper implementation of these resources or protocols to help drive them. In terms of neonatal non-invasive ventilation, there are several methods of helping…

Life of an RT A Respiratory therapist (RT) has a big role in the clinical setting. They were once called oxygen technicians in the 1940’s, but now they play a bigger part in patient care. Today’s RTs are health care professionals that aim to provide quality and evidence-based respiratory care while ensuring safety, maintaining communication, and keeping record of what goes on with their patients. The RTs must understand the respiratory and cardiovascular system in order to efficiently apply…

more recent history, these afflictions and new emerging technology have driven the need of a respiratory care professional. Respiratory therapists may be one of the “new kids on the block” in the medical field, but in its short history, respiratory therapy has had its fair share of hardship, near failures, and great successes that have shaped what the profession has become. To understand anything, you must start at the beginning. Sometimes, that means looking…

suffering from respiratory problems. Respiratory Therapists also help patients on ventilators or responds to cardiopulmonary arrest or other urgent care. A respiratory therapist performs many duties which include oxygen therapy, breathing treatments, and humidity-aerosol therapy to pulmonary drainage procedures, mechanical ventilation, and cardiopulmonary…

Bree Edwards October 12, 2015 Respiratory Therapy 210 What Does a Respiratory Therapist Do? Respiratory therapists are important health care professionals who provide care for patients with acute and chronic abnormal cardiopulmonary systems. They are educated and trained professionals who focus on providing quality respiratory care to patients. Almost seventy five percent of respiratory therapists work in a hospital setting while the other twenty five percent work in clinics, sleep study…

used in hyperbaric oxygen therapy. Our goal is to be the leading and preferred provider of HBOT. Through our innovative oxygen treatment, we make sure that your hyperbaric experience is safe and beneficial for your health and beauty. When you use an oxygen chamber for healing, the air pressure is increased to three times that of normal air pressure. During the process, the lungs are able to accumulate more oxygen than it can normally do at normal conditions. We ensure that our oxygen chamber is…

Make your enunciation clear with the voice therapy mechanisms Foreign bodies are frequently reaching into the pharynx, the larynx or the trachea, especially in children. This cause symptoms in two ways: by obstructing the air passage that causes difficulty in breathing; they may be drawn further down later on, entering the bronchi causing symptoms of irritation, such as a cough, bloody or mucous expectoration. If the foreign body has lodged into the pharynx, this may be lodged by inserting the…

Ever been injured playing a sport, we're currently disabled from an accident, or have even broken a bone? Well if so, physical therapy is the place you might go. I chose the topic of “How to become a physical therapist?” because, I was thinking about what I might want to do in the future. I learned a lot about physical therapy throughout this project. I realized how hard yet self rewarding the job can be at times. How much schooling it is going to take me, but most importantly I learned that if…

If I were a JCAHO surveyor, I would conduct a hospital review of Nursing, Respiratory Therapy, and the Physicians on an unannounced basis. I would chose this method because it helps organizations provide safe, quality care that’s continuous, not sporadic in nature (DeLorenzo, 2005). As a means of pinpointing gaps in problems related to patient safety and quality and offer guidance to leadership, physicians and other members of the healthcare team, I will observe and interview the nurses,…

developing motor skills at the same level as children without the disorder. The Children’s TherAplay Foundation provides therapy for children with disorders such as this. An employee from this foundation wrote a success story named “Meet Leo” about a young boy with Down Syndrome. Although the author used some logos to convince the audience of parents with special needs children that the therapies Children’s TherAplay provides work, the most important appeal was the author’s use of pathos to…