{"id":12609,"date":"2016-12-02T13:16:21","date_gmt":"2016-12-02T18:16:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.229.122.34\/en\/?page_id=12609"},"modified":"2021-03-09T10:53:42","modified_gmt":"2021-03-09T15:53:42","slug":"respiratory-therapists","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/clinical-services\/deptpgrmcs\/departments\/rehabilitation-centre\/about-the-rehabilitation-centre\/our-rehabilitation-teams\/respiratory-therapists\/","title":{"rendered":"Respiratory Therapists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Respiratory therapists<\/strong> specialize in caring for people with breathing difficulties. For someone with a lung disease, such as chronic bronchitis or emphysema, or for an accident victim, breathing can be a struggle. Respiratory therapists monitor, assess and provide the necessary treatment to facilitate the ease of breathing for people who have a lung disorder.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Respiratory therapists also help patients who have weak respiratory muscles due to neuromuscular disorders such as ALS, DMD, MS and SCI to name a few.<\/li>\n<li>TOHRC respiratory therapists offer innovative, non-invasive airway management techniques to ease the work of breathing for people at risk of neuro-respiratory complications.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For more information please see <a href=\"\/en\/clinical-services\/deptpgrmcs\/departments\/rehabilitation-centre\/our-programs-and-services\/neuromuscular-care-stream\/respiratory-rehabilitation-for-neuromuscular-disease\/\">Respiratory Rehabilitation for Neuromuscular Diseases<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Respiratory therapists specialize in caring for people with breathing difficulties. For someone with a lung disease, such as chronic bronchitis or emphysema, or for an accident victim, breathing can be a struggle. Respiratory therapists monitor, assess and provide the necessary treatment to facilitate the ease of breathing for people who have a lung disorder. Respiratory [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":12558,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-12609","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12609"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12609\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/12558"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}