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  2. Respiratory therapist - Wikipedia

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    Respiratory therapists educate, assist in diagnosis, and treat people who have heart and lung problems. Specialized in both cardiac and pulmonary care, respiratory therapists often collaborate with specialists in pulmonology and anaesthesia in various aspects of clinical care of patients.

  3. National Board for Respiratory Care - Wikipedia

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    Candidate must be 18 years old and must have either: a minimum of an associate degree from a respiratory therapist education program accredited by the Commission on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (CoARC), or hold the Canadian Society of Respiratory Therapists (CSRT) RRT credential. The TMC consists of 160 multiple-choice questions (140 ...

  4. Critical care nursing - Wikipedia

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    On a day-to-day basis a critical care nurse will commonly, "perform assessments of critical conditions, give intensive and intervention, advocate for their patients, and operate/maintain life support systems which include mechanical ventilation via endotracheal, tracheal, or nasotracheal intubation, and titration of continuous vasoactive ...

  5. Pulmonary function testing - Wikipedia

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    Pulmonary function testing has diagnostic and therapeutic roles and helps clinicians answer some general questions about patients with lung disease. PFTs are normally performed by a pulmonary function technologist, respiratory therapist, respiratory physiologist, physiotherapist, pulmonologist, or general practitioner.

  6. Respiratory Care Week - Wikipedia

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    Respiratory Care Week is a week set to honor and recognize respiratory therapists. Respiratory Care Week is celebrated internationally but most notably in Canada and the United States . Respiratory Care Week is usually the last full week of October. [ 1 ]

  7. Certified respiratory therapist - Wikipedia

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    1999 - CRTT transitioned to CRT, “Therapist” replaced “Technician” in the title; 2000 - Computer administrations, results on the day of testing; From the 1980s through the 2000s, 49 states passed legislation relying on results from the certification examination as a central component in the regulation of respiratory therapists.

  8. Allied health professions - Wikipedia

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    The organization of International Chief Health Professions Officers (ICHPO) [3] developed a widely-used definition of the allied health professions: Allied Health Professions are a distinct group of health professionals who apply their expertise to prevent disease transmission, diagnose, treat and rehabilitate people of all ages and all specialties.

  9. Nursing diagnosis - Wikipedia

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    A nursing diagnosis may be part of the nursing process and is a clinical judgment about individual, family, or community experiences/responses to actual or potential health problems/life processes. Nursing diagnoses foster the nurse's independent practice (e.g., patient comfort or relief) compared to dependent interventions driven by physician ...