Respiratory Care

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Under the supervision of a licensed Physician, Grady Memorial Hospital’s Respiratory
Therapy Department cooperates with all hospital departments in order to provide the
therapeutic services necessary for patient's recovery. Respiratory Therapists are very
important vital members of our health care team, uniquely trained to treat conditions of
the cardiopulmonary system and works with the patient and their family in discharge
planning to assure continuity of care when returning to the home environment.

Grady Memorial Hospital’s employs both Certified Respiratory Therapist (CRTT) and
Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) who are credentialed through the National
Board for Respiratory Care and also licensed through the Oklahoma State Board of
Medical Licensure and Supervision. Grady Memorial Hospital encourages growth and
development by acquisition of further skills and knowledge through an on-going in-service
education program for all personnel.

Our Respiratory Therapists perform procedures that are both diagnostic and therapeutic.
Some of these activities include:

Diagnosis
- Obtaining and analyzing sputum and breath specimens. They also take blood specimens
and analyze them to determine levels of oxygen, carbon dioxide, and other gases.
- Interpreting the data obtained from these specimens.
- Measuring the capacity of a patient’s lungs to determine if there is impaired function.
- Performing pulmonary stress tests and other studies of the cardiopulmonary system.
- Studying disorders of people with disruptive sleep patterns.

Treatment
- Operating and maintaining various types of highly sophisticated equipment to administer
oxygen or to assist with breathing.
- Using mechanical ventilation for treating patients who cannot breathe adequately on their own.
- Monitoring and managing therapy that will help a patient recover lung function.
- Administering medications in aerosol form to help alleviate breathing problems and to help
prevent respiratory infections.
- Monitoring equipment and patient responses to therapy.
- Maintaining a patient’s artificial airway, one that may be in place to help the patient who can’t
breathe through normal means.

The Respiratory Therapy Department is staffed twenty-four hours per day, seven days per week.

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