[1] Respiratory-driven protocols are implemented in hospitals for treatment of people suffering from asthma, bronchiolitis, and other respiratory illness.
Respiratory-driven protocols are most widely applied in intensive-care units.
[2] Respiratory practitioners are not utilized globally,[3] so most application of respiratory practitioners as physician-extenders in this fashion is in the United States.
[4] Respiratory practitioners applying respiratory-driven protocols was initially designed and has been since shown to reduce patient cost and improve overall patient outcomes.
[4] Respiratory-driven protocols have been shown to decrease hospital stays and improve overall outcomes in pediatric populations requiring respiratory intervention such as mechanical ventilation.