The Respiratory Therapy department helps manage the care of patients with cardiopulmonary issues such as:
COPD
Our respiratory therapists are essential members of the multidisciplinary healthcare team, collaborating with the physicians and nurses to provide compassionate, high-quality care to all areas of the hospital. Our clinicians use high-tech equipment and the latest medical procedures to diagnose and treat our patients.
Administration of oxygen and aerosol medications
Pulmonary function testing
Stabilizing, treating and managing patients during hospital-to-hospital transport
Breathing treatments
Initiation and management of mechanical ventilation
Chest physical therapy
Life support
Asthma education