Marcus T. Delgado

Profile

Registered Respiratory Therapist with 11 years of acute-care and critical-care experience across Level I trauma centers and large community hospitals. Specializes in mechanical ventilation management, pulmonary rehabilitation, and neonatal/pediatric respiratory support. Reduced ventilator-associated pneumonia rates by 34% at current facility through protocol redesign and staff education.

Work Experience

Senior Respiratory TherapistMar 2019 - Present

Memorial Southwest Medical Center, Houston, TX

Led redesign of ventilator bundle protocol across 48-bed ICU, cutting VAP incidence by 34% over 18 months and saving an estimated $620,000 in avoidable care costs.
Managed daily caseload of 18–22 ventilated patients, maintaining 99.1% adherence to lung-protective ventilation targets per ARDS Network guidelines.
Mentored 6 new graduate RTs through 90-day clinical orientation, reducing onboarding errors by 41% and improving competency-check pass rates to 100%.

Respiratory Therapist IIJun 2015 - Feb 2019

Bayou City Regional Hospital, Houston, TX

Performed and interpreted over 1,200 pulmonary function tests annually, supporting pulmonologist diagnosis of COPD, asthma, and interstitial lung disease.
Collaborated with rapid-response team on 300+ code-blue activations per year, achieving average intubation-to-ventilation setup time of under 4 minutes.
Piloted a home-oxygen discharge education program that decreased 30-day COPD readmission rate by 22% across a 6-month pilot cohort of 88 patients.

Staff Respiratory TherapistAug 2013 - May 2015

St. Agatha Community Hospital, Galveston, TX

Delivered aerosol therapy, incentive spirometry, and chest physiotherapy to 30–35 patients daily across med-surg and step-down units.
Assisted in establishing a neonatal respiratory support pathway for the 16-bed NICU, reducing average oxygen-weaning time by 3.1 days.
Maintained equipment calibration logs and QA records for 60+ ventilators and CPAP devices, achieving zero compliance deficiencies across two Joint Commission surveys.

Skills

Mechanical Ventilation Management (invasive & non-invasive) · Arterial Blood Gas Analysis & Interpretation · Pulmonary Function Testing (spirometry, DLCO, plethysmography) · High-Flow Nasal Cannula (HFNC) Therapy · Neonatal & Pediatric Respiratory Support · CPAP/BiPAP Titration · Registered Respiratory Therapist (RRT) — NBRC · Basic & Advanced Cardiac Life Support (BLS/ACLS) · Epic EMR & Philips Respironics Systems

Profile

Work Experience

Education

Skills

Links