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Job Description

Assess, treat, and care for patients with breathing disorders. Assume primary responsibility for all respiratory care modalities, including the supervision of respiratory therapy technicians. Initiate and conduct therapeutic procedures; maintain patient records; and select, assemble, check, and operate equipment.

Job Details

• The SOC (Standard Occupational Classification) code is 29-1126.00
• The Mean Annual Wage in the U.S. is $ 60,640.00
• The Mean Hourly Wage is $ 29.00
• Currently, there are 126,770 people on this job

☝️ Information based on the reference occupation “Respiratory Therapists”.

Also Known As…

• Respiratory Therapists
• Staff Therapist
• Staff Respiratory Therapist
• Respiratory Therapy Director
• Respiratory Therapist (RT)
• Respiratory Care Practitioner (RCP)
• Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT)
• Clinical Coordinator of Respiratory Therapy
• Certified Respiratory Therapist (CRT)
• Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation Respiratory Therapist
• Oxygen Therapist
• Inhalation Therapist
• Cardiopulmonary Technician and EEG Tech (Cardiopulmonary Technician and Electroencephalogram Technician)

Tasks for “Cardiopulmonary Technician and EEG Tech (Cardiopulmonary Technician and Electroencephalogram Technician)”

• Work as part of a team of physicians, nurses, or other healthcare professionals to manage patient care by assisting with medical procedures or related duties.
• Educate patients and their families about their conditions and teach appropriate disease management techniques, such as breathing exercises or the use of medications or respiratory equipment.
• Perform endotracheal intubation to maintain open airways for patients who are unable to breathe on their own.
• Provide emergency care, such as artificial respiration, external cardiac massage, or assistance with cardiopulmonary resuscitation.
• Read prescription, measure arterial blood gases, and review patient information to assess patient condition.
• Maintain charts that contain patients' pertinent identification and therapy information.
• Monitor patient's physiological responses to therapy, such as vital signs, arterial blood gases, or blood chemistry changes, and consult with physician if adverse reactions occur.
• Teach, train, supervise, or use the assistance of students, respiratory therapy technicians, or assistants.
• Inspect, clean, test, and maintain respiratory therapy equipment to ensure equipment is functioning safely and efficiently, ordering repairs when necessary.
• Set up and operate devices such as mechanical ventilators, therapeutic gas administration apparatus, environmental control systems, or aerosol generators, following specified parameters of treatment.
• Relay blood analysis results to a physician.
• Use a variety of testing techniques to assist doctors in cardiac or pulmonary research or to diagnose disorders.
• Perform bronchopulmonary drainage and assist or instruct patients in performance of breathing exercises.
• Demonstrate respiratory care procedures to trainees or other healthcare personnel.
• Conduct tests, such as electrocardiograms (EKGs), stress testing, or lung capacity tests, to evaluate patients' cardiopulmonary functions.
• Explain treatment procedures to patients to gain cooperation and allay fears.
• Transport patients to the hospital or within the hospital.
• Enforce safety rules and ensure careful adherence to physicians' orders.
• Determine requirements for treatment, such as type, method and duration of therapy, precautions to be taken, or medication and dosages, compatible with physicians' orders.
• Monitor cardiac patients, using electrocardiography devices, such as a holter monitor.
• Make emergency visits to resolve equipment problems.
• Perform pulmonary function and adjust equipment to obtain optimum results in therapy.

Related Technology & Tools

• Oxygen concentrators
• Blood gas machines
• Small particle aerosol generators
• Bronchoscopes
• Sputum traps
• Oxygen hoods
• Medical aerosol tents
• Manual blood pressure equipment
• Continuous positive airway pressure CPAP ventilators
• Oxygen regulators
• Indirect calorimeters
• Saturation of oxygen SaO2 monitors
• Wright's spirometers
• Oxygen masks
• Oxygen monitors
• Percussors
• Surgical suits
• Pulmonary function testing PFT equipment
• Bilevel positive airway pressure BiPAP ventilators
• Volume ventilators
• Infant incubators
• Notebook computers
• High-frequency ventilators
• Oral airways
• Ambu bags
• Oxygen tents
• Bedside spirometers
• Pulse oximeters
• Christmas tree adapters
• Medical suction equipment
• Therapeutic treadmill exercisers
• Electronic blood pressure equipment
• Tracheotomy masks
• Hemodynamic monitors
• Aerosol masks
• Cannulas
• Tracheostomy tubes
• Mechanical stethoscopes
• Air compressors
• Portable flat computers
• Endotracheal ET tubes
• Cell savers
• Personal digital assistants PDA
• Apnea monitors
• Manometers
• Negative pressure ventilators
• Tourniquets
• Blood collection syringes
• Oxygen tanks
• Electrocardiography EKG units
• Nebulizers
• Blood gas kits
• Medical oxygen masks
• Internal positive pressure breathing IPPB machines
• Nasal airways
• Personal computers
• Intra-aortic balloon pumps IABP
• Capillary catheters
• Oxygen flowmeters
• Humidifiers
• Incentive spirometers
• Evacuated blood collection tubes

• Microsoft Office
• Database software
• MEDITECH software
• HMS
• Microsoft Outlook
• Microsoft Excel
• Electronic medical record EMR software
• Microsoft Word
• Calendar and scheduling software
• Microsoft PowerPoint