CARDIOPULMONARY SERVICES

The Cardiopulmonary Services department at SLVRMC provides coverage 24 hours a day seven days a week. The staff of Respiratory Care Practitioners, both CRT and RRT, provide a full range of therapeutic and diagnostic procedures in the inpatient acute care setting and specific diagnostic procedures on an outpatient basis. The department operates a combination of twelve hour shifts and eight hour shifts to allow fort he fluctuations inherent in a rural hospital and for diagnostic procedure scheduling.

Inpatient Procedures

• Oxygen administration
• Brochodilator therapy
• Chest physiotherapy
• BIIPAP/CPAP management
• Ventilator management
• Asthma education program
• Electrocardiograms
• ED Trauma team members

Outpatient Procedures

• Electrocardiograms
• Holter Monitoring
• Event Monitoring
• Pulmonary Function Testing
• EEG (Electroencephalography)
• Polysomnography
• Echocardiography
• Vascular studies

SLVRMC encourages strong interdisciplinary interaction and teamwork and the Cardiopulmonary staff actively support this goal. This sense of teamwork allows the RCP's the opportunity and skills in providing high quality health care. With this emphasis on high quality patient care, the potential for future growth and expansion of Cardiopulmonary Services is exciting and challenging.

Last Modified: April 25, 2007 5:06 PM