History of Respiratory Care Flashcards
What is one of the primary methods of delivery for medications in asthma treatments
Aerosol Medications
What was widely prescribed in hospitals in the 1940s and is still a mainstay of respiratory care?
Oxygen Therapy
The iron lung is an example of what therapy that helps patients who cannot breathe?
Mechanical ventilation
The heart and lungs working together is the most important part of the Respiratory Therapy profession. What system does this describe?
The cardiopulmonary system.
What is the method to test the way that height, age, obesity, and disease alter lung function?
Pulmonary function tests
What is another name for respiratory therapy that is a more formal term?
Respiratory care practitioner
Who is an individual trained to deliver care to patients with heart and lung diseases?
Respiratory therapist
Relieving obstruction is the key to this what respiratory procedure?
Airway management
The large-scale production of commercialized oxygen was developed in 1907 by whom?
Karl Von Linde
What law describes the law of diffusion for gases and started in 1831?
Graham’s Law
After world war one (1930) Ivan Magill introduced the use of what tube that made blind nasal intubation possible?
Soft Rubber Endotracheal Tube
In 1911, what pulmotor ventilator was used in resuscitation?
Heinrich (Drager)
What mask allows oxygen administration in percentages and came about in 1960?
Campbell (Ventimask)
What famous artist (1452-1519) studied human anatomy and determined that sub-atmospheric intrapleural pressures inflated the lungs?
Leonardo Da Vinci
Which Greek physician is known as the “Father of Medicine”?
Hippocrates
In 1947, what organization is responsible for the first professional association for the field of Respiratory Care?
Inhalation Therapy Association (ITA)
In 1808, who described the relationship between gas pressure and temperature?
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
During the polio epidemics of the 1930’s and 1950’s, a commercial version of the Iron Lung was developed by what two men?
Drinker and Emerson
In 1787, what is the law that describes the relationship between gas temperature and volume is?
Charles Law
Inhalation therapists provided what support therapy to help improve patients breathing?
Oxygen Therapy
What did David Pierson predict?
He predicted greater use of patient assessment protocols in disease management in all clinical settings, a more active role in palliative care, increasing emphasis on smoking cessation and prevention, and early detection and intervention in COPD, and an increase of using RTs in as home health coordinators and caregivers.
What did Drinker and Emerson invent?
The Iron Lung
What did Joseph Black rediscover?
He rediscovered CO2 and he called it “dephlogisticated air”.
What did William Roentgen discover?
X-Rays
What does Karl von Linde contribute to the respiratory field?
He created large-scale commercial preparation of oxygen.
Who created the germ theory?
Louis Pasteur
Who described the law of partial pressures in a gas mixture?
John Dalton
Who described the relationship between gas pressure and temperatures?
Joseph Louis Gay-Lussac
Who described the relationship between gas volume and temperatures?
Jacques Charles
Who is credited with the discovery of oxygen?
Joseph Priestley
Who is the father of medicine?
Hippocrates
What is aerosol therapy?
The administration of liquid or powdered aerosol particles via inhalation to achieve a desired therapeutic effect.
What is airway management?
The use of various techniques and devices to establish and/or maintain a functional air passageway.
The first health care specialists appeared in what year?
The appeared in the 1940s.
How many breaths does a normal adult breathe per minute?
12-20
What did Hutchinson observe?
He observed the relationship between height and lung volume and that vital capacity decreases with age, obesity, and lung disease.
What is Mechanical Ventilation?
Refers to the use of a mechanical device to provide ventilatory support for patients.
What is pulmonary function testing?
Diagnostic procedure(s) that provide objective, quantifiable measures of lung function.
What is Respiratory Care?
The health care discipline that specializes in the promotion of optimum cardiopulmonary function and health.
What will respiratory therapists do in the future of medicine?
They will focus on patient assessment, care plan development, protocol administration, disease management and rehabilitation, and patient and family education, to include tobacco education and smoking cessation.
What do Respiratory Therapists do?
Apply scientific principles to prevent, identify, and treat acute or chronic dysfunction of the cardiopulmonary system. Respiratory care includes the assessment, treatment, management control, diagnostic evaluation, education, and care of patients with deficiencies and abnormalities of the cardiopulmonary system.
What is in store for the future of respiratory therapy?
There will be an increase in demand for respiratory care because of advances in treatment and technology; increases in and aging of the population; and increases in the number of patients with asthma, COPD, and other cardiopulmonary diseases.
When did aerosolized medication for the treatment of asthma begin?
1910
When did the first therapeutic administration of oxygen occur and when was it established, and when was it routinely used?
It first occurred in 1798. The use of oxygen to treat respiratory disease became established by the 1920s, and oxygen was used routinely in hospitals by the 1940s.
When was the iron lung used extensively?
The iron lung was used extensively during the Polio epidemics of the 1940s and 1950s.
What ancient figure is likely to have recorded the first respiratory physiology experiment?
Aristotle
What empire established measures to prevent and control epidemics?
Roman
What is another name for the Bubonic plague?
Black Death
Who reported that sub-atmospheric pressures were required to inflate mammalian lungs?
Da Vinci
Who is credited with making the first barometer?
Torricelli
Who described the inverse relationship between gas volumes and pressures?
Boyle
Who is credited with the development of the oxygen electrode, which allowed for analysis of PaO2?
Clark
Which physician was responsible for identifying the non-linear relationship between the binding of hemoglobin and oxygen and constructing the oxyhemoglobin-hemoglobin dissociation curve?
Christian Bohr
During WW1, advances in which field resulted in a reduction of non- battlefield mortality, compared to the Civil War?
Microbiology
What was developed to improve oxygen titration, especially for those with COPD?
The Venturi mask.
Which famous painter was among the first to dissect humans in order to better understand human physiology?
Leonardo da Vinci
Which clinician was the first to implement the therapeutic use of medical gases?
Thomas Beddoes
