Respiratory Therapist Job Description
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The Respiratory Therapist assists patients who have breathing difficulties like emphysema and asthma. Their role is to provide emergency aid for a breathing problem, heart attack, drowning and shock. Their responsibilities are monitoring patients physiological responses to therapy, setting up and operating tools, observing specified parameters of treatment, providing emergency care, inspecting, testing, cleaning and managing respiratory therapy equipment to ensure it is functioning safely and efficiently, maintaining charts that involve the patient description and therapy information, measuring arterial blood gases, relaying blood analysis results to a physician, making emergency visits to...
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- Associate Degree in Respiratory Care
- Associate Degree in Science
- Associate Degree
- Bachelor of Arts (b.a.) in Physics Education
- Bachelor of Science (b.sc.) in Health Science
- Bachelor of Science (b.sc.) in Respiratory Therapy
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