2279C0205X — Critical Care Registered Respiratory Therapist

Grouping

Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers

Classification

Respiratory Therapist, Registered

Specialization

Critical Care

Section

Individual

Definition

Respiratory emergencies are commonplace in the treatment of critical care patients. Included in the assessment measurements conducted by the respiratory therapist in the critical care settings are arterial blood gas puncture and analysis, intrarterial monitoring, bedside measurements of lung mechanics, hemodynamic monitoring, and inspired and expired gas measurements. This is coupled with the initiation and management of mechanical ventilation patients.

NUCC’s own wording, not a paraphrase.

Other codes under Respiratory Therapist, Registered

These are the codes a mis-selection most often lands on, because they share a classification and differ only by specialisation.

• 227900000XRespiratory Therapist, Registered
• 2279E0002XEmergency Care
• 2279E1000XEducational
• 2279G0305XGeriatric Care
• 2279G1100XGeneral Care
• 2279H0200XHome Health
• 2279P1004XPulmonary Diagnostics
• 2279P1005XPulmonary Rehabilitation
• 2279P1006XPulmonary Function Technologist
• 2279P3800XPalliative/Hospice
• 2279P3900XNeonatal/Pediatrics
• 2279P4000XPatient Transport
• 2279S1500XSNF/Subacute Care