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Respiratory History
Important Dates and events for Respiratory Therapy
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| 1920's | Oxygen therapy began to rise in the hospital setting |
| 1930's | Nebulizer therapy became popular |
| 1940-1950s | Called Inhalation Therapist (oxygen orderlies) |
| 1940-1950s | Inhalation Therapy Association (ITA) formed |
| 1940-1950s | Renamed to American Association for Inhalation Therapy (AAIT) |
| 1940-1950s | the essentials of acceptable schools of inhalation therapy |
| 1940-1950s | Provide oxygen to hospital patients |
| 1940-1950s | On the job trained |
| 1940-1950s | Hospitals began piping in oxygen |
| 1940-1950s | American Medical Association (AMA) adopts a resolution calling for the use of the New York Essentials in the creation of schools of inhalation therapy |
| 1940-1950s | The AAIT begins publishing a science journal, Inhalation Therapy (now RESPIRATORY CARE). |
| 1940-1950s | Iron lung and IPPB |
| 1960s | The American Registry of Inhalation Therapists (ARIT) is formed to oversee a new examination leading to a formal credential for people in the field |
| 1960s | Nov - first Registry exams is administered in Minneapolis |
| 1960s | Board of Schools of Inhalation Therapy Technicians is formed |
| 1960s | Third name change, to the American Association for Inhalation Therapy |
| 1960s | Development of mechanical ventilators |
| 1960s | Launches the Technician Certification Program to offer a credential to people working in the field who do not qualify to take the Registry exams. |
| 1970s | Board of Schools of Inhalation Therapy Technicians becomes the Joint Review Committee for Respiratory Therapy Education (JRCRTE) |
| 1970s | AAIT becomes the American Association for Respiratory Therapy (AART) (4th name) |
| 1970s | two credentialing programs merge into the National Board for Respiratory Therapy (NBRT) |
| 1970s | AAIT forms the American Respiratory Therapy Foundation (ARTF) to support research, education, and charitable activities in the profession. |
| 1980s | California passes the first modern licensure law governing the profession of respiratory care |
| 1980s | President Reagan proclaims the first National Respiratory Care Week |
| 1980s | AART becomes the American Association for Respiratory Care (AARC) |
| 1980s | ARTF becomes the American Respiratory Care Foundation (ARCF) |
| 1980s | NBRT becomes the National Board for Respiratory Care (NBRC) |
| 1990s | AARC begins developing Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) for treatments and modalities |
| 1990s | ARCF launches an International Fellowship Program to bring health care professionals from around the world to the U.S. every year to tour health care facilities in two cites |
| 1990s | JRCRTE evolves into the Committee on Accreditation for Respiratory Care (CoARC) |
| 2000s | RESPIRATORY CARE journal is accepted into Index Medicus |
| 2000s | National Library of Medicine and its online counterpart, the MEDLINE |
| 2000s | Lung Health Day to promote better lung health to consumers |
| 2000s | Wednesday during National Respiratory Care Week |
| 2000s | Vermont becomes the 48th state to pass a licensure |
| 2000s | AARC celebrates its 50th Anniversary |
| Iron Lung | Negative Pressure Ventilator - epidemics of poliomyelitis (early 50s) |
| Iron Lung | powered by an electric motor with two vacuum cleaners |
| Iron Lung | pump changed the pressure inside the airtight metal box, pulling air in/out of the lungs |
| Iron Lung | 1928 – development of polio vaccine in late 50 – early 60s. |
| IPPB | Mark Bird 7 developed in the 1950s |
| IPPB | Delivered aerosolized medication to asthmatics and COPD pts |
| IPPB | Opened atelectatic lungs; delivered medication deeper into the lungs |
| IPPB | First portable breathing machine – thus began the birth of continuous ventilation |
| IPPB | Became a standing treatment for patients |
| IPPB | 1970s – IS developed, shown to be just as effective as IPPB |
| Oxygen | Delivery via tents started in 1910, mid 1920’s become available for widespread clinical use |
| Oxygen | Mid-60’s brought ability to monitor oxygen levels accurately (clark electrode) |
| Oxygen | 1960 – venturi mask |
| Oxygen | Late 1960 – modern oxygen mask |
| Oxygen | 1970s – liquid oxygen and home concentrators |
| Oxygen | 1980 – pulse ox |
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