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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)”

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

Related Technology & Tools

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

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