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Our Service
Respiratory Care Practitioners/Register Respiratory Therapists at Children’s Hospital responsibilities are three-fold:
- To use a wide-range of respiratory techniques and equipment to treat patients with heart and lung problems.
- To maintain equipment needed for everyday care as well as mechanical ventilation.
- To provide education to the parent/child as well as respiratory interns in the Emergency Department, Wards, and Paediatric Critical Care Unit.
Our Team
Respiratory Therapists work with the entire medical team in all areas of the hospital and for all age groups.
- Respiratory Therapists are an integral part of the neonatal/paediatric transport team.
- Administer medical gases such as oxygen, air-oxygen mixtures, nitric oxide and nitrogen.
- Administer humidified air and medications in aerosol as well as Metered Dose Inhaler to aid in patients breathing.
- Assist with cardio-pulmonary resuscitation to all areas of the hospital including the delivery room, emergency department, adult and paediatric floors and also provide respiratory assessments for patients in acute distress.
- Advise physicians, health care providers on changes in patients condition respond to high risk deliveries.
Daily duties include; aerosolized treatments to asthmatics on the wards as well as in the emergency department, oxygen therapy, and daily patient assessments for their oxygen requirements. In the Paediatric Critical Care Unit the duties include managing the patient’s ventilation needs, suctioning, interpreting how well the patient is doing, intubations and attending patient care rounds. Post-operative patients include cardiac, thoracic and transplant.
Respiratory Therapists are often the first health professionals in contact with the adult, the child and the infant, acutely and chronically ill. We work in conjunction with the home care providers when planning for a patient’s discharge with technology dependence.
In order to function clinically at the patient's bedside the therapist must have knowledge of the design, function and maintenance of the equipment and procedures in current use. They also must be able to deal effectively and sympathetically with patients as well as parent and physicians, nurses and other allied health professionals.
