2278C0205X — Critical Care Certified Respiratory Therapist

Grouping

Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers

Classification

Respiratory Therapist, Certified

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, Certified

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

• 227800000XRespiratory Therapist, Certified
• 2278E0002XEmergency Care
• 2278E1000XEducational
• 2278G0305XGeriatric Care
• 2278G1100XGeneral Care
• 2278H0200XHome Health
• 2278P1004XPulmonary Diagnostics
• 2278P1005XPulmonary Rehabilitation
• 2278P1006XPulmonary Function Technologist
• 2278P3800XPalliative/Hospice
• 2278P3900XNeonatal/Pediatrics
• 2278P4000XPatient Transport
• 2278S1500XSNF/Subacute Care