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American Association for Respiratory Care (Role: Provides education, advocacy, publications.

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AARC

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Committee on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (Role:Guides for school and accreditation)

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CoARC

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National Board for Respiratory Care (organization responsible for the respiratory credentialing examinations)

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NBRC

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heart and lungs working together is the "bread and butter" of our profession.

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Cardiopulmonry system

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name suggesting increased involvement in disease prevention and management and promotion of health and wellness.

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Respiratory Care

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health care discipline that specializes in the promotion of optimum cardiopulmonary health.

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Respiratory therapy

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individual trained to deliver care to patients with heart and lung disease.

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Respiratory therapist's

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widely prescribed in hospitals by the 1940s and still a mainstay of respiratory care.

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Oxygen Therapy

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One of the primary treatments for asthma uses this method of delivery.

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Aerosol Medications

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iron lung is an example of this therapy that helps patients who cannot breath.

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Mechanical ventilation

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relieving obstruction is the key to this respiratory procedure.

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airway managment

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method to test the way that height, age, obesity, and disease alter lung function.

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pulmonary function testing

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caregiver who acts as a physician extender after receiving additional education.

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Physician Assistant

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is another name for the RT is this more formal term

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Respiratory care practitioner(s)

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The actual definition of respiratory therapy is "the health care discipline that specializes in the promotion of optimal cardiopulmonary function and health."

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Define respiratory care profession in your own words

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Main concepts include: assessment, treatment, management, control, diagnostic evaluation, education, and care of patients with deficiencies and abnormalities of the cardiopulmonary system. Respiratory care is increasingly involved in the prevention of respiratory disease, the management of patients with chronic respiratory disease, and the promotion of health and wellness.

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Include at least THREE main concepts of RT profession

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The Inhalation Therapy Association (ITA) was the first professional association in respiratory care. The ITA became the American Association for Inhalation Therapists (AAIT) in 1954, the American Association for Respiratory Therapy (ARRT) in 1973, and the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) in 1982.

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How did respiratory profession get started?

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CoARC: Committtee on Accreditation for Respiratory Care NBRC: National Board for Respiratory Care AARC: American Association for Respiratory Care

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Respiratory Therapy has 3 main professional associations what is the full name ?

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CoARC: Guidelines for schools and accreditation NBRC: Credentialing examinations AARC: Professional association, provides education, advocacy, publications

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Respiratory Therapy has 3 main professional associations what is the role for each one of them?

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The first course in inhalation therapy was offered in 1950. Programs in the 1960s focused on teaching students the proper application of oxygen therapy, oxygen delivery systems, humidifiers, and nebulizers and the use of various IPPB devices.

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Describe how RT school got started?

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The new standard requires an associate degree for entry into the profession. There will be a need for individuals with more education so more baccalaureate and graduate education is needed.

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What kind of programs do they have now for RT profession?

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Technician programs no longer exist.

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How is education and programs different from the early days tech's?

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1. Discovery of oxygen in the 1770s by Priestley and Scheele 2. Gas laws were discovered in the 1600s and 1700s, as well as the barometer. 3. Modern laws, like Daltons, came in 1801. Pasteur advanced germ theory in 1865.There are many more possible correct answers to this question!

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Name 3 major events in history of science & medicine that were foundations for respiratory physics or physiology.

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Respiratory therapist apply scientific principles to (prevent), identify, and (treat) dysfunction of the cardiopulmonary system.

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Respiratory therapist apply scientific principles to____, identify, and _____ dysfunction of the cardiopulmonary system.

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The ((AARC)) is the professional organization for the field. It was started in 1947 and was called ((the inhalation Therapy Association)).

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The ___ is the professional organization for the field. It was started in 1947 and was called____.

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The iron lung was used extensively during the ((Polio)) epidemics of the 1940s and 1950s.

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The iron lung was used extensively during the ____ epidemics of the 1940s and 1950s.

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In the future, there will be a(n) ((increase)) in demand for respiratory care due to advances in ((technology)) and increase in ((aging people with cardiopulmonary disease)) of the population.

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In the future, there will be a(n)____ in demand for respiratory care due to advances in _____ and increase in ______ of the population.

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The general answer is management, supervision, research, and education. You can also become a case manager, a drug representative, or go on for graduate education in anesthesia or as a physician assistant.

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Describe at least 4 careers that would open up as result of baccalaureate or graduate education.

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This question is a simple classic that has many possible answers. Dr. David Pierson promoted the science of respiratory care and the use of protocols. He helped us elevate our practice. Joseph Priestley discovered oxygen, and Thomas Beddoes first used it. I would like to be a therapist who becomes a pioneer of a new and vital technique.

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Heroes are found in history. Name 3 important history figures in respiratory care. pick one and briefly explain how this person might inspire you in your career!

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Hippocrates

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Who is the father of medicine?

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Joseph Priestley

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Who is credited with the discovery of oxygen?

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Louis Pasteur

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Who created the germ theory?

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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

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Who described the relationship between gas pressure and temperatures?

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Jacques Charles

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Who described the relationship between gas volume and temperatures?

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X-Rays

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What did William Roentgen discover?

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Created large scale commercial preparation of oxygen.

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What does Karl von Linde contribute to the respiratory field?

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The Iron Lung

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What did Drinker and Emerson invent?

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He rediscovered CO2 and he called it "dephlogisticated air"

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What did Joseph Black rediscover?

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The American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) will continue to be the leading national and international professional association for respiratory care. The AARC will 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.

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What is the AARC's mission?

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National Board of Respiratory Care (NBRC)

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Which organization is responsible for credentialing in the respiratory care field?

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Committee on Accreditation of Respiratory Care (CoARC)

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Which organization is responsible for accreditation in the respiratory care field?

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Greater use of patient assessment protocols in disease management in all clinical settings, a more active role in pallitative care, increasing emphasis on smoking cessation and prevention, and early detection and intervention in COPD, and an increas of using RTs in as home health coordinators and care givers.

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David Pierson predicted what?

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written plan specifying the procedures in a givn activity; electronic communications, rules that determine how two or more computers 'Talk' to each other

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Protocol

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services that emphasizes a team approach to service delivery using cross-trained providers, as well as simple process required to provide patient care.

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Patient-Focused care

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actions that allow respiratory care practitioners to independently initiare and adjust therapy, within gudelines established by medical staff, also called respiratory care protocol.

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Therapist-Driven Protocol

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a private nongovernment agency that establishes guidelines for the operation of hospitals and other health care facilities, conducts accreditation programs and surveys,and encourages the attainment of high standards of instiotutional medical care in the uniited states, formerly JCAHO

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Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations (JCAHO) Now The Joint Commission

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The promotion of highest care in cardiopulmonary function. learn and apply the principles to prevent, indentfy,and treat all patients. RT= will learn and do the assessments treatments, management, control , diagnostic evaluation, education,and care of the patients.

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define the respiratory care profession inyour own words. Include at least three main concepts

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full name:committee on accreditation for respiratory care

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reapiratorycare has three main professional associationmdefinet the full name for CoARC

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Provides guidelines for schools and accreditation

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role:CoARC

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National Board for respiratory care

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NBRC full name

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provides the credentialing examination

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role:NBRC

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American Association for respiratory care

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AARC full name

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professional association, provides, education advanced, and publication

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role: AARC

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Increase in general population practice is associate degree. The growing needs for individuals with more education is driving the development of more baccalaureate and graduate programs

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Describe current trends in respiratory care education in the united states

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Increases in general population, the aging population, advances in treatment and Technology, and increases in lung disease ensure our future. Our specialized training in disease management patients education, patient assesment and therapeutic intervention,tied to an increasaed need for our services assure a rosy future.

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The future of the profession is based on demaned for our services.Explain why we have such a bright future and how we can ensure appropriate care for our patients.

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to prevent, identify,and treat dysfuntion of cardiopulmonary system

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Respiratory therapists apply scientific principles

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is the professional oganization for the field

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AARC

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during the Polio edidemics of the 1940s and 1950s.

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The iron lung was used extensively

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developed herbal remedies for many disease

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Ancient Time

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Hippocrayes, a Greek physician who live during the 5th and 4th centuries BC

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Who is the father of medicine?

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four nessential fluids: phlegm, yellow bile, blood,and black bile

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What was hippocrayes medcine based on?

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that air contained an essential for the body by the heart

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What was hippocrayes believed?

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first great biologist 342-322 BC

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Aristotie

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developed a pneumatic theory of respiration in eeegypt 330-240 BC

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Erasistratus

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anatomist who believed the air had a substance vital to life

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Gales

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determined that subatmospheric pressures inflated the lungs 1453-1519

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Leeeonardo da Vinci

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performed human dissections and experimented with resuscitation

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Andreas Vesalius

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describe the properties of CO2 1754

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Joseph Black

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describe his discovery of Oxygen=dephlogisticated air 1774

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Joseph Priestley

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Tissue respiration

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Liazzaro Spallazani

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the relationship between gas temperature and volume, which became Charles Law1787

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Jacques Charles

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begin using oxygrn to treat various condition at his pneumatic Institude 1778

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Thomas Beddoes

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his law of partial pressure in 1801

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John Dalton

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the relationship between gas temperature and presure 1808

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Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac

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his law of diffusion for gasses Grahams Law 1831

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Thomas Gragam

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advanced his germ theory of disease were the result of microorganisms 1865

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Louis Pasteur

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spirometer and anesthesia were invented

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1846

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discovered the x-ray, which open door for the modererm field of radiology

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William Roentgen

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positive-pressure breathing devices were applied to patients.

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1950s

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Formal education programs for inhalation therapists began

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1960S

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development of sophisticated mechanic ventilators

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1960s expanded the role of the respiratory therapist RT

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were soon resposible for arterial blood gas and pulmonary function laboratoratories

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RT

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in 1974

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respiratory therapist became standard

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Large-scale production O2 was developed in 1007

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Karl Von Linde

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