Editing Respiratory therapist (section)

===Public education===
In other settings respiratory therapists are found in schools as asthma educators, working with teachers and coaches about childhood symptoms of asthma and how to spot an emergency. In the United States, legislation has been unsuccessfully introduced several times to allow respiration therapists certified as asthma specialists with registered respiratory therapist certification to prescribe and manage previously diagnosed respiratory patients in physician clinics.<ref name="112th Congress 2011">{{cite web |url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-941&tab=summary |title=H.R. 941 |access-date=August 28, 2011 |author=112th Congress (2011) |date=Mar 8, 2011 |work=Legislation |publisher=GovTrack.us |quote=Medicare Respiratory Therapy Initiative Act of 2011 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111117122451/http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-941&tab=summary |archive-date=November 17, 2011 }}</ref><ref name="110th Congress 2007">{{cite web |url=http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-3968 |title=H.R. 3968 |access-date=August 28, 2011 |author=110th Congress (2007) |date=Oct 25, 2007 |work=Legislation |publisher=GovTrack.us |quote=Medicare Respiratory Therapy Initiative Act of 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111117122145/http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h110-3968 |archive-date=November 17, 2011 }}</ref> In sleep clinics, respiratory therapists work with physicians in the diagnosis of sleep-related illnesses. Respiratory therapists in the United States are migrating toward a role with autonomy similar to the   extension of the physician like the [[physician assistant]].<ref name="pmid16168918">{{cite journal|vauthors=Shelledy DC, Wiezalis CP | title=Education and credentialing in respiratory care: where are we and where should we be headed? | journal=[[Respiratory Care Clinics of North America (journal)|Respiratory Care Clinics of North America]] | year= 2005 | volume= 11 | issue= 3 | pages= 517–30 | pmid=16168918 | doi=10.1016/j.rcc.2005.04.003 | url=https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16168918 }}</ref> Respiratory therapists are frequently utilized as complete cardiovascular specialists to place and manage arterial accesses along with peripherally-inserted central catheters.<ref name="pmid10813223">{{cite journal |vauthors=Rowley DD, Mayo DF, Durbin CG |title=Initial experience with a Respiratory Therapist arterial line placement service |journal=[[Respiratory Care (journal)|Respiratory Care]] |volume=45 |issue=5 |pages=482–5 |date=May 2000 |pmid=10813223 }}</ref>
[[File:US Navy 070926-N-6278K-007 Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Chad Galvin, a respiratory therapy technician attached to Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20), gives an immunization shot to a patient.jpg|thumb|A respiratory therapist gives an immunization to a patient]]