{"id":17069,"date":"2023-05-08T10:54:57","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T14:54:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/csrsommets.ca\/uncategorized\/mais-quest-ce-le-metier-dinhalotherapeute\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T14:25:39","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T18:25:39","slug":"hat-does-a-respiratory-therapist-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staging.csrsommets.ca\/en\/life-travel-health\/hat-does-a-respiratory-therapist-do\/","title":{"rendered":"What Does a Respiratory Therapist Do?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Respiratory therapists often work behind the scenes in healthcare! It is a relatively young profession (established in 1969) compared to other medical fields, and there are only about 4,000 of us in Quebec.<\/p><p>Respiratory therapists must hold a practice permit and be members of the Ordre des inhaloth\u00e9rapeutes du Qu\u00e9bec (OPIQ), whose mission is to protect the public.<\/p><p>They assess cardiorespiratory conditions for diagnosis or treatment follow-up, assist anesthesiologists during surgical procedures, and treat disorders affecting the cardiorespiratory system.<\/p><h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Where You Might Encounter a Respiratory Therapist<\/h3><ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>In emergency medicine or intensive care units<\/li>\n\n<li>In trauma rooms<\/li>\n\n<li>In pulmonary function testing labs<\/li>\n\n<li>In operating rooms<\/li>\n\n<li>In home care services<\/li>\n\n<li>In respiratory education and rehabilitation clinics<\/li>\n\n<li>In sleep clinics<\/li><\/ul><p>In short, our profession is diverse, dynamic, and often underrecognized!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Respiratory therapists often work behind the scenes in healthcare! It is a relatively young profession (established in 1969) compared to other medical fields, and there are only about 4,000 of us in Quebec. Respiratory therapists must hold a practice permit and be members of the Ordre des inhaloth\u00e9rapeutes du Qu\u00e9bec (OPIQ), whose mission is to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14068,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[336],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-life-travel-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.csrsommets.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.csrsommets.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.csrsommets.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.csrsommets.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.csrsommets.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17069"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staging.csrsommets.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17069\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17722,"href":"https:\/\/staging.csrsommets.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17069\/revisions\/17722"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.csrsommets.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staging.csrsommets.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.csrsommets.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staging.csrsommets.ca\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}