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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)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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