Blog #4--Cardiopulmonary
1. My responsibilities as a respiratory therapist this week were, diagnosing lung and breathing disorders and providing treatment, managing ventilators and other artificial airways, responding to code blues, medical response teams, and urgent calls for care, and educating people about lung disease to prevent it.
2. This week I learned about clot busters, the man I saw having CPR done to him, had a history of pulmonary embolism in his lungs. The nurse told me they were going to give it to him to see if it could help. This showed me how knowing patients history could help.
3. The best thing that happened was being able to watch CPR in action and watching nurses and EMTs in action trying to save a life.
4. The worst thing that happened was watching the man die and his family being really emotional. This experience was a lot to take in at first, but looking back I'm glad I had the experience.
5. This week was good! I got to witness some amazing things first hand, and learn a lot about CPR (The chest really sound like the clicking the mannequins make).

1. The nurses gave the man a ultrasound on this heart to see if there was any rhythm; unfortunately, there was none.
2. A diagnostic procedure I saw was when they went to give the man a clot buster, because he had an history of a PE in his lungs.
3. Unfortunately, I didn't see them do any therapeutic because he died, or if you found CPR as therapeutic.
4. Pulmonary embolism (blood clot) CPR (cardiopulmonary resuscitation) Thrombolytic therapy (clot busting medication)

Assessment of the Environment
 The personal are very professional, but like to have fun. They joke a lot. They work in the ICU a lot, their office is right next to it. They help try to educate people and their families about lung diseases to prevent. They are very compassionate about what they are doing.
Observation
 I saw how they have to work together as a team, and put other peoples lives before theirs. They work well as a team by making sure everyone is doing their job to the best of their ability. They communicate well to make sure every job gets done. They gave him clot busters and did CPR.
Knowledge
 This week I learned about clot busters, the man I saw having CPR done to him, had a history of pulmonary embolism in his lungs. The nurse told me they were going to give it to him to see if it could help. This showed me how knowing patients history could help. Knowing past history of a persons medical conditions.
Evaluation
 This rotation was an amazing experience. I got to see something i never thought I would be able to see.  The experience was defiantly worth a lot. I learned so many new things. This experience was a lot to take in. Watching someone die takes a tool on your body and mind for the first time.