{"id":7182,"date":"2016-11-15T10:54:41","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T15:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/52.229.122.34\/en\/?page_id=7182"},"modified":"2022-02-11T05:10:06","modified_gmt":"2022-02-11T10:10:06","slug":"respiratory-therapy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/our-model-of-care\/our-health-care-professional-team\/respiratory-therapy\/","title":{"rendered":"Respiratory Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-70537\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Respiratory-Therapy.jpg\" alt=\"A nurse is giving respiratory therapy to the patient\" width=\"770\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Respiratory-Therapy.jpg 770w, https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Respiratory-Therapy-600x257.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Respiratory-Therapy-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Respiratory-Therapy-768x329.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 770px) 100vw, 770px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>About Us<\/h2>\n<p>Respiratory Therapists are highly skilled health care professionals.\u00a0 They have specialized medical expertise and use their knowledge and skills to provide safe, high-quality care.\u00a0 If you have medical problems that may be caused by cardiorespiratory or respiratory-related issues, Respiratory Therapists are the experts who will work with you to diagnose, treat, and manage your condition.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b\u200b<\/p>\n<h2>Services<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Where do Respiratory Therapist work at TOH?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Intensive Care unit<\/li>\n<li>Emergency department<\/li>\n<li>NICU<\/li>\n<li>General Wards<\/li>\n<li>Rehabilitation- CANVent clinic<\/li>\n<li>Pulmonary Function labs, sleep labs<\/li>\n<li>Hyperbaric Unit<\/li>\n<li>Operation rooms (special designation AA)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>What does a Respiratory Therapist do?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Are members of interprofessional health care teams<\/li>\n<li>Are members of resuscitation and rapid response teams<\/li>\n<li>Assess and treat patients who have breathing difficulties<\/li>\n<li>Perform a variety of interventions to support the cardiopulmonary system<\/li>\n<li>Administer various medical gases<\/li>\n<li>Conduct Cardiopulmonary function testing to diagnose, track and manage cases of respiratory disease<\/li>\n<li>Provide and maintain mechanical ventilators for patients suffering form respiratory failure<\/li>\n<li>Provide respiratory care for both mother and baby in high-risk deliveries<\/li>\n<li>Assist patients who require long-term ventilation to return to their homes<\/li>\n<li>Keep patients stable and breathing during transitions within or between health care facilities<\/li>\n<li>Perform and assist with the insertion of artificial airways and invasive lines<\/li>\n<li>Provide education to patients\/clients, students and other members of the health care team<\/li>\n<li>Assis in delivery of anesthesia<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About Us Respiratory Therapists are highly skilled health care professionals.\u00a0 They have specialized medical expertise and use their knowledge and skills to provide safe, high-quality care.\u00a0 If you have medical problems that may be caused by cardiorespiratory or respiratory-related issues, Respiratory Therapists are the experts who will work with you to diagnose, treat, and manage [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":0,"parent":7012,"menu_order":5,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_mc_calendar":[],"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-7182","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7182","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=7182"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7182\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/7012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ottawahospital.on.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}