Profession
The health care discipline that specializes in the promotion of optimum cardiopulmonary function and health
Respiratory Care
Inhalational Therapy Association (ITA)
Founded in 1947 in Chicago, it was the first professional association for the field of respiratory care
What does the AARC stand for and what is it?
1982: American Association for Respiratory Care. It is the professional association for the field.
When did the first therapeutic administration of oxygen occur? When was it established, and when was it routinely used?
1798. Use of oxygen to treat respiratory disease became established by the 1920s, and oxygen was used routinely in hospitals by the 1940s.
Who is the father of medicine and believed air contained essential substance distributed to body via heart
Hippocrates
apply scientific principles to prevent, identify, and treat acute or chronic dysfunction of the cardiopulmonary system. Respiratory care includes the assessment, treatment, management control, diagnostic evaluation, education, and care of patients with deficiencies and abnormalities of the cardiopulmonary system.
Respiratory Therapist
What is the purpose of ITA?
To encourage and promote professional excellence![provide for professional advancement, foster cooperation with physicians, and advance the knowledge of inhalation therapy through educational activities]
The mission of the AARC
To "encourage and promote professional excellence, advance the science and practice of respiratory care, and serve as an advocate for patients, their families, the public, the profession and the respiratory therapist
What did William Roentgen discover?
X-Rays
Who described the relationship between gas volume and temperatures?
Jacques Charles
The first health care specialists appeared when?
1940s
What are the many names of the ITA? (4 total & dates)
The ITA became the American Association for Inhalation Therapists (AAIT) in 1945, the American Association for Respiratory Therapy (AART) in 1954, the American Association for Respiratory Therapy (ARRT) in 1973, and finally the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) in 1982.
NBRC
National Board of Respiratory Care (founded in 1974)
The NBRC provides the credentialing process for both the entry-level CRT and the advanced-practitioner RRT.
The American Registry of Inhalation Therapists was founded in 1960.
What is in store for the future of respiratory therapy?
There will be an increase in demand for respiratory care because of advances in treatment and technology; increases in and aging of the population; and increases in the number of patients with asthma, COPD, and other cardiopulmonary diseases
Hutchinson observed what?
the relationship between height and lung volume and that vital capacity decreases with age, obesity, and lung disease
The respiratory therapist of the future will do the following:
Focus on patient assessment, care plan development, protocol administration, disease management and rehabilitation, and patient and family education, to include tobacco education and smoking cessation
What were the first respiratory therapists called?
Inhalation therapists
Committee of Accreditation of Respiratory Care
Reviews Respiratory Care Educational Program
-responsible for ensuring that respiratory therapy educational programs follow accrediting standards
CoARC
What did Drinker and Emerson invent?
The Iron Lung
Who described the law of partial pressures in a gas mixture?
John Dalton
RT areas of employment (6)
hospitals (75%), clinics, physicians' offices, skilled nursing facilities, cardiopulmonary diagnostic labs, public schools
AART
1973: American Association for Respiratory Therapy
Advocate for patients and their families.
What is the FAARC award?
To recognize respiratory therapists and physician members who have done so in our profession
Who is credited with the discovery of oxygen?
Joseph Priestley
Who described the relationship between gas pressure and temperatures?
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac