Respiratory Therapist main job content is as follows:
Respiratory Therapist is an emerging medical profession, whose job is to diagnose, treat and care for people with cardiorespiratory insufficiency or abnormality under the guidance of doctors. Specifically, it includes providing a variety of ventilation treatments and oxygen therapy to acutely critically ill patients.
The use and monitoring of various medical gases; various nebulization and aerosol treatments and monitoring; the use and maintenance of cardiopulmonary resuscitation and its apparatus; pulmonary rehabilitation; and other technical operations, such as blood gas analysis, monitoring of pulmonary function, and hyperbaric oxygen chamber treatment.
On February 25, 2020, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security, together with the General Administration of Market Supervision and the National Bureau of Statistics, jointly released to the public the intelligent manufacturing engineers and technicians, industrial Internet engineers and technicians, virtual reality engineers and technicians, chain business managers, supply chain managers, and net delivery workers.
There are 16 new occupations such as artificial intelligence trainer, electrical and electronic products environmental protection inspector, all-media operator, health care worker, respiratory therapist, birth defects prevention and control consultant, rehabilitation assistive technology consultant, drone setup and overhaul worker, railroad comprehensive maintenance worker and assembly building constructor.
Overview
Respiratory therapy originated in the United States and has a history of more than 50 years. There are already more than 100,000 respiratory therapy practitioners in the U.S., located in a variety of healthcare organizations and communities, homes, and medical device companies.
North America, Asia, part of the developed countries and regions, has basically in accordance with the U.S. model, the formation of a certain scale of professional respiratory therapist team.
While in China, the industry has only just begun to take off -- in 1994, Shaw Hospital in Zhejiang Province took the lead in establishing a respiratory therapy department in accordance with the U.S. model; West China School of Clinical Medicine of Sichuan University opened a respiratory therapy program in 1997 in accordance with the U.S. model of respiratory therapy education, which is the only institution of higher education to offer respiratory therapy undergraduate education in China. In 1997, the West China Clinical School of Sichuan University opened a respiratory therapy program based on the U.S. model of respiratory therapy education.