Chapter 1 Egan's... (Intro to respiratory care) Questions and Answers

Chapter 1 Egan's... (Intro to respiratory care) Questions and Answers Respiratory Care/respiratory therapy health care discipline that specializes in the promotion of optimal cardiopulmonary function and health respiratory therapist apply scientific principles to prevent identify and treat acute or chronic dysfunction of the cardiopulmonary system RTs services must be done under the direction of a qualified physician usually they are anesthesiology critical care or pulmonary specialist AARC American association for Respiratory Care CoARC professional organization that accredits respiratory care schools and programs NBRC National Board for Respiratory Care... organization responsible for the Respiratory Care credentialing examinations Cardiopulmonary System heart and lungs working together ...."is the bread and butter of our profession" oxygen therapy the administration of oxygen to increase the supply of oxygen to the lungs ... widely prescribed in hospitals by the 1940s and still a mainstay of Respiratory Care aerosol medications one of the primary treatments for asthma uses this method of delivery mechanical ventilation Using a machine to move air into and out of the lungs. ...an iron lung is an example of this therapy that helps patients who cannot breathe airway management relieving obstruction is the key to this respiratory procedure pulmonary function testing method to test the ways that height age obesity and disease alter lung function physician assistant a licensed professional who works under the supervision of a physician describe at least four careers that would become possible for you as a result of The bachelorette or graduate education research, physician assistant, management and drug rep respiratory therapist applies scientific principles to prevent identify and treat acute or chronic dysfunction of the cardiopulmonary system when was aarc started and what was it called before: 1947; inhalation Therapy Association when was the iron lung used extensively in the epidemics of the 1940s and 50s during polio epidermics name three important historical figures in Respiratory Care Dr David Pearson, Joseph Priestley and Thomas beddoes how did RT schools get started what kind of programs do RT schools have now and how do they differ from the early days the programs now require an associate degree program it's now require more education and degree three main concepts of Respiratory Care profession assess ,treat, diagnostic evaluation 1550 BC Ebers Papyrus oldest document describes inhalation treatment for asthma Hippocrates "Founder of Medicine" During the Golden Age in Greece he was a scientist that believed all diseases came from natural causes. He also had high ideals for physicians & an oath was made that is still used today. Hippocratic medicine based on 4 essential fluids phlegm, blood, yellow bile, black bile hippocratic four essential elements earth (cold, dry) fire (hot, dry) water (cold, moist) and air (hot, moist) BOMA board of medical advisor.... group of physician that provide value input Erasistratus 304-250 BC developed the theory of pneumatism.. pneumatic theory of respiration in Alexandria Egypt in which air (pneuma) entered the lungs and was transferred to the heart Galen (130-199 AD) anatomist who believed the air had a substance vital to life believed that inspired air contain a vital substance that somehow charged the blood through the heart Renaissance ushered in a period of scientific artistic and medical advances Leonardo da Vinci ( ) studied human anatomy and determined that sub atmospheric intraplural pressure inflated the lungs and observed that fire consumed a vital substance in air without which animals could not live Vesalius () considered to be the founder of the modern field of human anatomy performed human dissections and experimented with resuscitation 1628 Harvey publishes "An Anatomical Study of the Motion of the Heart and of the Blood in Animals"... Harvey fully described the circulatory system 1662 boil published what is now known as Boyle's law governing the relationship between gas volume and pressure 1650 Toricelli invented the barometer and Pascal showed that atmospheric pressure decreases with altitude Van Leeuwenhoek () the father of microbiology improved the microscope and was the first to observe and describe single cell organisms which he called an animalcules 1774 Priestly described his discovery of oxygen which he called deathologisticated air Scheele perform the laboratory synthesis of oxygen which he called fire air 1787 Charles law describe the relationship between gas temperature and volume Lavoisier showed that oxygen was absorbed by the lungs and carbon dioxide and water were exhaled 1798 Beddoes begin using oxygen to treat various conditions at his pneumatic institute in Bristol 19th century important advances were made in physics and chemistry related to respiratory physiology 1801 Dalton described his law of partial pressure for a gas mixture and his atomic theory 1808 Gay Luusac described the relationship between gas pressure and temperature 1811 Avogadro determine that equal volumes of gases at the same temperature and pressure contain the same number of molecules 1831 Graham described his law of diffusion for gases known as grams law 1865 pasture advanced his germ theory of disease which held that many diseases are caused by microorganisms 1865 antiseptic techniques 1880 vaccines 1846 Hutchinson observed the relationship between height and lung volume in the vital capacity decreases with age obesity and lung disease FAARC fellow of the Americans association for Respiratory Care Koch is a pioneer and bacteriology discovered that tubercle bacillus which causes tuberculosis and the vibrio bacterium which causes cholera he developed postulates designed to establish a causative relationship between microbe and disease 1837 respiratory physiology also progressed with the measurement and of blood oxygen and carbon dioxide what are seven competencies required by respiratory therapists diagnostics, chronic disease statement management, evidence-based medicine and Respiratory Care protocols, patient assessment ,leadership emergency and critical care and therapeutics physiologic basis for oxygen therapy became understood use of oxygen to treat respiratory disease became established by the twenties and oxygen was used routinely in hospitals by the forties 1885 carbon dioxide is the major stimulant for breathing and demonstration 1878 oxygen partial pressure and blood oxygen content were related arcf offers many scholarships to RT students 1895 Roentgen discover the X-ray and the modern field of radiologic imaging where was respiratory therapy founded? in Canada and the United States but is now around the world what is Respiratory Care week? it's an annual event to promote the profession and awareness of importance of good lung health what are the two types of respirations? internal and external the first health care specialist in the field were oxygen technicians 1940s can you have respiration without ventilation? no the first inhalation therapist or oxygen technicians or oxygen order lies who could haul cylinders of oxygen and related equipment around the hospital and set up oxygen intense Mass inasal catheters the development of positive pressure breathing for breathing support of high altitude pilots led to its use as a method to treat pulmonary patients and deliver aerosol medications during the 1950s expanding the role of inhalation therapist during world War II atmospheric pressure is - 79% nitrogen ,21% oxygen, .03% carbon dioxide where is the best place to look up info for RCP AARC website does gas move from high to low? yes what affects humidity and barometric pressure? temperature 1974 the designated respiratory therapist became standard and the RT became the allied Health professional primarily concerned with the assessment diagnostic testing treatment education and Care of patients with efficiencies and abnormalities of the cardiopulmonary