Galen Jackson Email & Phone Number

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Bountiful, Utah

Respiratory care primarily of tracheostomy patients ranging in age from infant to geriatric, with treatment regimens ranging from ongoing maintenance of ventilator-dependent patients (spinal cord or traumatic brain injury, for example), rehabilitation/weaning from assisted-ventilation, to end-of-life/hospice care

Salt Lake City Metropolitan Area

Salt Lake City, Utah

Worked only part-time as a PRN therapist, mainly working with cystic fibrosis patients who were admitted for routine annual or semi-annual 'clean-out' visits. Monitored patient overall respiratory condition including oxygen status, work of breathing, airway patency vs. obstruction due to secretions or bronchoconstriction, and performed various (mostly typical) therapy regimens, such as medication administration, chest physiotherapy, and various therapies to facilitate clearance of secretions and to recruit atelectasis and maintain ideal lung volumes.

Provo, Utah Area

Worked as staff therapist in two hospitals in the Urban South region: a large tertiary-care 'Level 2' trauma and medical center; and a smaller outlying community hospital, both overseen by the same management team. I was a jack-of-all-trades RT, able to work in most areas of care, including Adult ICU, Cardiac ICU, Step-down ICU, Med-Surg floors, Rehab, Outpatient, Pediatrics, Neonatal ICUs (both Level-3 and Level-2), Labor & Delivery, and Emergency Dept. Independent ventilator setup and stable ventilator management- (Equipment used: Puritan Bennett 840, Drager Evita, Respironics V-60, Sensormedics HFOV, and others. Also various BiPAP/CPAP machines) Drew arterial blood gas samples (via radial/femoral punctures, and arterial lines), processed, and analyzed ABG results, made appropriate changes to patient ventilator settings. Intubation of adult and infant patients, and ET tube/ tracheostomy tube care.E.R. care- (trauma/ life support, conscious sedation, member of "code team," etc.)Assisted MD's with inpatient bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL), thoracentesis, transesophageal echocardiograms (TEE), and cardioversionsMedication administration (MDI’s, SVN’s, DPI’s, etc.), chest physiotherapy (percussion/postural drainage, VEST therapy, flutter valve, etc.)L&D:- (assisted in infant resuscitation at c-sections, ‘high-risk’ deliveries) Newborn ICU- Worked on team with RN to evaluate newborns and initiate level-2 protocols (NCPAP algorithm, and ‘surfactant-to-NCPAP’ protocol) Pediatric asthma protocol, and annual outpatient bronchiolitis clinic (airway clearance, nasopharyngeal suction, evaluation & scoring of patients, communication with pediatricians)Administered pulmonary function tests (PFT) in outpatient diagnostic department, and performed portable EKG testing (adult, pediatric, infant) when needed.Worked 18 months setting up sleep lab, and learning to evaluate for OSA and other sleep disorders; set up/titrated CPAP and BiPAP systems and supplemental oxygen.