RESPIRATORY THERAPIST

Respiratory Therapist

Respiratory therapist

Introduction

In 1957, a resolution to create schools of inhalation therapy was presented at the AMA House of Delegates of the Medical Society of New York. Following the adoption of the resolution was referred to the AMA Council on Medical Education (CME), and subsequently led to the standards (Essential) for approved technical school inhalation therapy, which were formally adopted by the AMA House of Delegates in 1962. The standards were revised in 1967 and included claims 18-month program. In 1970, the School Board was reorganized and incorporated as a Joint Commission for Education Review of inhalation therapy. In 1972 it approved the third revision of standards and additional standards were developed and approved in a short educational program to prepare people to work as technicians. The revised standards were approved last time in 2003. In 1997 the name of the Review Committee was changed to the Commission on Accreditation for ventilation (CoARC) (Mishoe, Welch, 2007).

Legal and ethical Issues

Respiratory therapists work in different conditions, assessment, treatment and management of respiratory disease and other cardiovascular disease of all ages. Advanced therapists of respiratory are considered to be responsible for decision-making for the clinic and education of the patient, development and implementation of a respiratory care program, patients received control protocol, use of evidence-based clinical practice guidelines, and also in health promotion, disease prevention and disease management (Wyka, Mathews, Clark, 2008). Advanced level respiratory therapist may require significant independent opinion, under the supervision of a physician in respiratory care. In accordance with an advanced feature therapist, respiratory therapist may perform the following procedures:

• Clinical data collection and evaluation.

• Assess the patient's cardiopulmonary status.

• the implementation of the provisions of the diagnosis in the research, such as obtaining blood samples, blood gas analysis, pulmonary function testing and polysomnography, the performance to ...