History of RT
What is Respiratory Care?
§the health care discipline that specializes in the promotion of optimum cardiopulmonary function and health
What is Ethics?
how we should act
What is the primary method for liquids and gases?
Convection
What is source or reservoir, route of transmission, and susceptible host?
Before formal education programs began in the 1960s, early inhalation therapists in the 1940s were primarily known by this job title.
What are oxygen technicians (or oxygen orderlies)?
Who is considered the “father of medicine”?
Hippocrates
What are the 2 components of ethical behavior?
A professional duty and a patient right
What is cohesion (properties of liquids)
the attractive force between like molecules. Evidenced by a convex meniscus.
1 strategy used to prevent HAIs
What is eliminate the source of pathogens?
A therapist withholds the full truth about a procedure to prevent patient anxiety, invoking “benevolent deception,” which conflicts with this ethical principle.
What is veracity?
Who discovered oxygen in 1774?
Joseph Priestley
What is benevolent deception?
The truth is withheld for the patient own good
The inward force exerted by like molecules at a liquid’s surface is?
Surface Tension
Most common, efficient and easiest sterilization method
What is steam sterilization?
This effect explains why gas flowing along a curved surface remains attached due to negative pressure near the wall, forming the basis of fluidic circuitry.
What is the Coanda Effect?
Hippocratic medicine explained disease as an imbalance of four humors and four elements; this element was described as hot and moist.
What is air?
Define confidentiality and when can it be breached?
Respect to a PTs right to privacy, when the welfare of others is at risk
What is the vapor pressure in mmHg @ 1 atm?
47.00mmHg
Inactivation of all microorganisms except bacterial spores (with sufficient exposure times, spores may also be destroyed)
What is Disinfection, high level?
When a gas passes through a narrowed section of tubing, its velocity increases while lateral wall pressure decreases, allowing surrounding gas to be drawn into the stream—an effect fundamental to air-entrainment devices used in respiratory care.
What is the Bernoulli effect?
What year did the AART became the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC)
In 1982
What is intentional tort?
A willful act that violates another’s interest
In Boyles Law what is constant?
Temperature
Nebulizers is a fomite that is the most common source of
Respiratory infections