Pediatric Care Services
Pediatric respiratory care practitioners (RCPs) working in the Children's Center at The Johns Hopkins Hospital are highly trained therapists, caring for patients in the Pediatric Intensive Care Unit (PICU), five comprehensive care units and a pediatric emergency department. RCPs that work in the 22-bed PICU treat more than 1,300 children each year, are an integral part of the health care team and enjoy autonomy due to their degree of specialized training.
Pediatric RCPs treat patients ranging in age from birth through adolescence in the Children's Center presenting various disease processes including asthma, cystic fibrosis, congenital heart and lung disease, RSV and others.
Our pediatric respiratory therapists are responsible for therapeutic interventions including:
- ventilator management with conventional as well as high-frequency oscillatory (HFO) and high-frequency jet (HFJ) ventilation
- specialty gas monitoring and/or delivery
- intubation assistance
- nitric oxide administration
- blood gas acquisition and interpretation
- specialized student training
In addition, the PICU at Johns Hopkins, as the official State of Maryland facility for pediatric trauma patients, cares for more than 1,000 pediatric trauma patients annually. RCPs that work in the PICU respond to all airway related trauma patients and provide airway and ventilator management. The PICU also has a transport team that travels by ambulance or helicopter to community hospitals to stabilize and transport infants and children to Hopkins, where they can receive a higher degree of specialized care.
The PICU at Johns Hopkins is Maryland's only facility that provides extra-corporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for infants and children with severe cardiac and respiratory failure. The pediatric ECMO team is primarily staffed by the Children's Center RCPs.
For more information about our pediatric respiratory care services or to apply for a position, please contact:
Stacey Mann, B.S., R.R.T.
Manager, Respiratory Care and ECMO Services
Johns Hopkins Children’s Center
Email: smann11@jhmi.edu
