The Respiratory Care Department at El Paso Children’s Hospital offers advance pediatric respiratory therapy services, special pediatric diagnostic services and training education to patients, families, physicians, therapists and clinicians. All staff members have the highest pediatric certifications.
Respiratory Care Department Main Line: (915) 242-8365
24/7 Services Available
Pediatric Respiratory Care Staff Certifications:
- RRT-Registered Respiratory Therapist
- BLS- Basic Life Support
- PALS-Pediatric Advanced Life Support
- NRP-Neonatal Resuscitation Program
- ACLS-Advanced Cardiac Life Support
- STABLE- Sugar & Safe Care, Temperature, Airway, Blood Pressure, Lab Work, Emotional Support
- NPS-Neonatal Pediatric Specialist
- AE-C- Certified Asthma Educator
- CPFT, RPFT- Certified or Registered Pulmonary Function Technologist
Advanced Pediatric Respiratory Therapy Services Available
- Medical Gas Therapy including Nitric Oxide and Heliox
- Aerosol Drug Administration
- Bronchial Hygiene
- Non-Invasive Oxygen and Carbon Dioxide Monitoring
- Noninvasive Ventilation
- Conventional Mechanical Ventilator Support & Care
- High-Frequency Oscillatory Ventilation Support& Care
- Participation at all high risk deliveries
- Pediatric Bronchoscopy Service Support
- Bedside Spirometry Testing
Respiratory Care Special Diagnostic Services Available:
- Complete Pulmonary Function Testing
- Spirometry
- Lung volumes obtained by plethysmography
- Diffusion
- Muscle Strength
- Bronchial Challenge Testing
Neuro Diagnostics
- Electroencephalogram (EEG)
- Electroencephalogram Long Term Monitoring
- Brainstem Auditory Evoke Potential (BAER)
- Visual Evoke Potential(VER)
Training and education in Respiratory Care for Respiratory Therapists, Physicians, Nurses and Student Respiratory Therapists
Pediatric Asthma Education
Provide Consultative Services for Physicians by Respiratory Therapists
Physicians will be able to Refer Patients that have Diagnoses such as:
- Acute Lung Injury
- ARDS-Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome
- Asthma
- Bronchiectasis
- Bronchiolitis
- Bronchopulmonary Dysplasia
- Congenital abnormalities of the lungs, airways and chest wall
- Cystic Fibrosis
- Foreign Body Aspiration
- Interstitial Lung Disease
- Pleural Effusions & Emphysema
- Pneumonia
- Pulmonary Hypertension
- Tuberculosis
- Upper Airway Obstruction