How did respiratory profession get started? - ✔️✔️The Inhalation Therapy Association
(ITA) was the first professional association in respiratory care. The ITA became the
American Association for Inhalation Therapists (AAIT) in 1954, the American
Association for Respiratory Therapy (ARRT) in 1973, and the American Association for
Respiratory Care (AARC) in 1982.
Define respiratory care profession in your own words - ✔️✔️The actual definition of
respiratory therapy is "the health care discipline that specializes in the promotion of
optimal cardiopulmonary function and health."
Respiratory Care - ✔️✔️name suggesting increased involvement in disease prevention
and management and promotion of health and wellness.
NBRC - ✔️✔️National Board for Respiratory Care (organization responsible for the
respiratory credentialing examinations)
Cardiopulmonry system - ✔️✔️heart and lungs working together is the "bread and
butter" of our profession.
Respiratory therapy - ✔️✔️health care discipline that specializes in the promotion of
optimum cardiopulmonary health.
Respiratory therapist's - ✔️✔️individual trained to deliver care to patients with heart
and lung disease.
Oxygen Therapy - ✔️✔️widely prescribed in hospitals by the 1940s and still a mainstay
of respiratory care.
Aerosol Medications - ✔️✔️One of the primary treatments for asthma uses this method
of delivery.
Mechanical ventilation - ✔️✔️iron lung is an example of this therapy that helps patients
who cannot breath.
airway managment - ✔️✔️relieving obstruction is the key to this respiratory procedure.
pulmonary function testing - ✔️✔️method to test the way that height, age, obesity, and
disease alter lung function.