Write an essay of approximately 500 words describing how your chosen profession has responded to the changing world of information technology in the recent past, and how it is likely to change in the next two or three years.
The way I use information technology in my career as a Respiratory Therapist is the way I keep someone breathing. You would thinking keeping someone breathing was simple and easy to do but there is more to it then what movies show. The technology that is put in the vent has gone a long way from the first vent which was known as the Iron Lung.
Through studies around the world the medical has been able to help patient stay alive with serious injuries or disease processes. In order to get the right settings to put a patient on a vent I need their height to calculate their Ideal Body Weight. The reason I go off height is because through studies we have found that people of the say height have the same lung volume not by weight. Which means the a 5ft 9in person weighing 150lbs would have the same lung volume as a person with the same height weighing 300lbs. Once a patient is placed on a vent depend on the mode of ventilation I can tell if there is a fault in the system with computer that are in the vent. I can track trends in what the patient is doing and I can figure out if the need more or less volume. I can tell if a more advance mode needs to be done because the patient is getting worse. Patient that were dying before we are able to actually now able to improve due to the technology of the vent and the ability to compare studies across the world. The best few years with advance in the internet allowed doctors to not only talk state to state but across the world to compare findings. At Fort Sam Houston, TX the leading Burn Unit in the country is seeing burn patients that have 98% burns to the body surviving because of the research the have been able to do with the patient. It use to be a few years ago that if you were burn more the 70%...