YOU ARE THE RT!!!

30% of rural hospitals report employing NO respiratory therapist. What do you do when you have a sick patient and you are the intensivist, the RT, and the transfer center? You need to know two things that we rarely do in tertiary centers: 

1) VENT CIRCUITS AND KNOBOLOGY: How to turn the vent on and setup the circuit 

2) CRITICAL ACCESS ED VENT MANAGEMENT: How to dial in the right vent settings