airway management, ventilatory support, oxygen therapy, humidity and aerosol therapies, chest physiotherapy, physiologic monitoring, and pulmonary diagnostics.
Respiratory care refers
Scope of practice encompasses:
delivery of aerosolized medications
airway management,
mechanical ventilation,
positive airway pressure therapy,
critical care monitoring
cardiopulmonary rehabilitation,
application of various techniques collectively termed chest physiotherapy.
[includes administering aerosols, clearing pulmonary secretions, reexpansion of atelectatic lung, and preserving normal lung function postoperatively or during illness.
Diagnostic services may include pulmonary function testing, arterial blood gas analysis, electrocardiography testing, and evaluation of sleep-disordered breathing. The majority of respiratory care procedures are based on clinical practice guidelines developed by the American Association for Respiratory Care using best practice/evidence-based medicine criteria.]
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