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Test Bank- Egan's Fundamentals of Respiratory Care{ 12th Edition 2024 }by James K. Stoller, Albert J. Heuer| All Chapters( 1-58) Included | Answers with Rationales | Newest Version

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Egan’s Fundamentals of Respiratory
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100% Verified Answers COVERS ALL CHAPTERS
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, Chapter 01 - History of Respiratory Care
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Which of the following is an expected role of a respiratory therapist?
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Approximately 75% of all respiratory therapists work in hospitals or other acute care settings.
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Who is considered to be the ―father of medicine‖?
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Who discovered O2 in 1774 and described it as ―dephlogisticated air‖?
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John Dalton described his law of partial pressures for a gas mixture in 1801 and his atomict
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Who was the first scientist in 1865 to suggest that microorganisms caused many diseases?
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Henry Graham dx dx


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In 1865, Louis Pasteur advanced his ―germ theory‖ of disease, which held that many diseas
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Who discovered the x-ray and opened the door for the modern field of radiology?
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What was the primary duty of the first inhalation therapists?
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The first inhalation therapists were really just O2 technicians.
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When did the designation ―respiratory therapist‖ become standard?
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Who was the first to develop the large-scale production of O2 in 1907?
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Large-scale production of O2 was developed by Karl von Linde in 1907.
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When was the first Venti-
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