Respiratory Therapy

Boone County Health Center’s Respiratory Therapy department helps patients with breathing or cardiopulmonary problems. Patients range from infants to elderly adults.

During a hospitalization, patients are treated for conditions such as

  • Asthma
  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Pneumonia
  • Heart failure
  • COPD
  • Acute mechanical ventilation

 

The Respiratory Therapy department provides treatments that include

  • Sleep Diagnostics
  • Sleep studies to check for sleep apnea
  • Aerosol Therapy
  • Oxygen Therapy
  • Incentive Spirometry
  • Chest Physiotherapy
  • Mechanical Ventilation
  • BIPAP Therapy
  • Pulmonary Function Diagnostics
  • EEGs

Get Started

Patients can have a sleep study done at Boone County Health Center with a referral from their primary care provider.

For more information on services offered by Respiratory Therapy, contact Courtney Schindler, RRT at 402.395.3193.