Pediatric Respiratory

Pediatric respiratory care practitioners working at Sutton Children’s are highly trained therapists, caring for patients in the PICU and NICU. They treat patients ranging in age from birth through adolescence and present various disease processes including asthma, cystic fibrosis, congenital heart and lung disease, RSV and others.

Our pediatric respiratory therapists are responsible for therapeutic interventions including:

• ventilator management with conventional as well as high-frequency oscillatory (HFO) and high-frequency jet (HFJ) ventilation
• specialty gas monitoring and/or delivery
• intubation assistance
• nitric oxide administration
• blood gas acquisition and interpretation
• specialized student training