Critical Care Registered Respiratory Therapist
518 active US providers register Critical Care Registered Respiratory Therapist as their primary taxonomy. That is 0.01% of every provider in the registry, and the 484th largest of 584 specialties with a page here.
- Taxonomy code
- 2279C0205X
- Grouping
- Respiratory, Developmental, Rehabilitative and Restorative Service Providers
- Classification
- Respiratory Therapist, Registered
- Specialization
- Critical Care
- Active providers
- 518
- States covered
- 47 of 51
What the code means
Respiratory emergencies are commonplace in the treatment of critical care patients. Included in the assessment measurements conducted by the respiratory therapist in the critical care settings are arterial blood gas puncture and analysis, intrarterial monitoring, bedside measurements of lung mechanics, hemodynamic monitoring, and inspired and expired gas measurements. This is coupled with the initiation and management of mechanical ventilation patients.
Definition quoted verbatim from the NUCC Health Care Provider Taxonomy code set, version 25.1. Not paraphrased.
Where they are
Counted by practice location, not by mailing address or by licence state. A provider practising across a state line is counted where they practise.
| State | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| California | 130 | |
| Florida | 65 | |
| New York | 42 | |
| Washington | 38 | |
| Texas | 35 | |
| Arizona | 17 | |
| Georgia | 15 | |
| Massachusetts | 13 | |
| Virginia | 13 | |
| North Carolina | 12 | |
| Missouri | 11 | |
| Michigan | 11 | |
| Ohio | 9 | |
| Nevada | 6 | |
| New Jersey | 6 |
Showing the 15 largest of 47 states with at least one.
Who registers under this code
Almost all of these are individual clinicians: 513 people against 5 organisations. Half of them had registered by 2018, and 190 registered in the last five years, 37% of the current population.
That is close to the pace of the registry as a whole.
Where the practices are
By practice-location city. City counts are noisier than state counts, because a large employer files one address for many providers.
- LOS ANGELES, CA42
- SEATTLE, WA32
- GAINESVILLE, FL26
- NEW YORK, NY18
- BROOKLYN, NY16
- HOUSTON, TX11
- SACRAMENTO, CA11
- ROSEVILLE, CA10
- RICHMOND, VA9
- SAN ANTONIO, TX8
What else they list
Providers whose primary code is Critical Care Registered Respiratory Therapist most often carry these secondary taxonomies as well. This is the closest thing the registry has to a map of which specialties overlap in practice, and it is not published anywhere else.
| Also listed | Providers | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Registered Respiratory Therapist | 15 | 2.9% |
| Emergency Care Registered Respiratory Therapist | 13 | 2.5% |
| General Care Registered Respiratory Therapist | 11 | 2.1% |
| Neonatal/Pediatric Registered Respiratory Therapist | 10 | 1.9% |
| Critical Care Certified Respiratory Therapist | 9 | 1.7% |
| Patient Transport Registered Respiratory Therapist | 6 | 1.2% |
| Educational Registered Respiratory Therapist | 2 | 0.4% |
| Pulmonary Diagnostics Registered Respiratory Therapist | 2 | 0.4% |
Nearby specialties
Other taxonomies NUCC files under Respiratory Therapist, Registered.
Looking up a specific provider
These counts come from the monthly NPPES file. To check one provider, use their NPI: the lookup reads the live registry and shows whether the identifier is still active, which the monthly file cannot tell you about the last few weeks.
Counts from npidata_pfile_20050523-20260712.csv, built 2026-08-09. Primary taxonomy only, deactivated identifiers excluded.