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    Home care respiratory therapists play an important role in caring for patients at home. They perform assessments, manage airways and ventilation equipment, and are part of a multidisciplinary team. Home care allows patients to receive treatment while maintaining independence and quality of life. Respiratory therapists provide education on equipment use, oversee pulmonary rehabilitation, and help coordinate care.

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    Home care respiratory therapists play an important role in caring for patients at home. They perform assessments, manage airways and ventilation equipment, and are part of a multidisciplinary team. Home care allows patients to receive treatment while maintaining independence and quality of life. Respiratory therapists provide education on equipment use, oversee pulmonary rehabilitation, and help coordinate care.

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    HOME CARE

    RESPIRATORY THERAPY
    Caity Usher, Sabrina Addotey, Anjali Panchal, Kavina Shalin

    Roles and Responsibilities • Mental Health: Improved mental well-being


    • Homecare RTs are required to be licensed from being at home and forming bonds
    • Perform respiratory assessments, pulse- • Hospital Visits: Reduces the need for visits
    oximetry and equipment performance, and and shortens stays
    manage airways and ventilation (invasive • Palliative Care: More comfortable
    and non-invasive). treatment at home
    • Part of a multidisciplinary care team to Assessments Used
    create plans and goals for homecare • Provide oxygen therapy and airway
    patients and educate and update families. management/tracheostomy care
    This includes reviewing and recommending • Help with continuous positive airway
    medications, oxygen, and aerosol therapy pressure therapy (CPAP & BiPAP) for
    effectiveness. treating obstructive sleep apnea
    • Play an important role in pulmonary rehab • Begin and monitor the progress of “invasive
    services for patients with COPD, chronic and non-invasive ventilatory devices, lung
    bronchiolitis, or lung diseases. recruitment maneuvers,” “high flow nasal
    Importance of Homecare RTs cannula therapy,” “suctioning,” and “point
    • Education: Teach proper use of equipment of care testing devices.”
    and medication • Deliver “pulmonary rehabilitation services.”
    • Independence: Continue lives at home and • Schedule device setups and servicing and
    maintain routine supervise “client oxygen authorizations and
    • Quality of life: Maintain a similar quality of funding” according to provincial guidelines.
    life while receiving care

    Equipment Used

    Oxygen Liquid O2 Tank +


    O2 Continuous Positive Nasal Reservoir Pendant Reservoir
    Conserving Portable Liquid O2
    Concentrator Airway Pressure Cannula Cannula
    Device Tank

    It holds liquid O2, Nasal prongs that Nasal prongs that


    Preserves O2 Allows for open
    Pulls room air to which can be added take stored O2 take stored O2
    by allowing O2 airways by lightly
    create almost to a portable tank from nasal storage from a pendant
    flow during pressurizing room air
    pure O2 for a more mobile during early during early
    inspiration while sleeping
    lifestyle inspiration inspiration
    References

    Clarke B. T. (2016). Home care in respiratory therapy. Canadian journal of respiratory therapy: CJRT = Revue

    canadienne de la therapie respiratoire : RCTR, 52(2), 51–52.

    https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4948574/

    Clinical Gate. (2015, December 12). Home Care Patient Assessment.

    https://clinicalgate.com/home-care-patient-assessment/

    Home Care Ontario. (n.d.) Respiratory Therapy – Home Care Ontario.

    https://www.homecareontario.ca/home-care-services/services/respiratory-

    therapy#:~:text=Ventilation%20and%20airway%20management%3B,Cardiopulmonary%20resuscitati

    on.

    Respiratory Therapy Society of Ontario. (2021, March 11). Respiratory Homecare Solutions.

    https://www.rtso.ca/respiratory-homecare-solutions-rrt/

    Respiratory Therapy Society of Ontario. (2020, October 21). Registered Respiratory Therapist Role Profile

    Across Multiple Practice Settings in Ontario. https://www.rtso.ca/registered-respiratory-therapist-

    role-profile-across-multiple-practice-setting-in-ontario/

    Starck, D. (2019, June 4). The Value of Home Respiratory Care. HomeCare.

    https://www.homecaremag.com/june-2019/home-respiratory-care

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