Respiratory Therapy

Elective Credit-Transfer

Elective Credit-Transfer

This course gives respiratory therapy students a general introduction to a broad variety of human diseases. Etiology, diagnosis, and treatment will be discussed.

Life Support. This course focuses on the most important clinical laboratory procedures and equipment used by the respiratory therapist to support critically ill patients. Specifically, this course instructs students in mechanical ventilators, pressure and heart rate monitors, pulmonary mechanics devices, and arterial blood gas sampling.

This course outlines general cardiorespiratory diseases of the adult, including acute and chronic disorders. Respiratory therapeutics applied to these diseases are discussed.

This course outlines fetal physiology, cardiorespiratory transition, and respiratory management of neonatal pathologies, including respiratory distress syndrome. Cardiorespiratory techniques for the pediatric patient as well as pediatric trauma and transport are reviewed.

This clinical practicum introduces students to variations in oxygen delivery and basic mechanical ventilation. Treatment modalities and hemodynamic monitoring on mechanically ventilated patients will be integrated.

Elective Credit-Transfer

This course outlines and discusses both normal and abnormal lung volumes and capacities, mechanics of ventilation, inspiratory and expiratory flows, and diffusion of the lung. Additional specialty.

This course reviews electrocardiograms, intracranial pressure monitoring, capnography, and pulmonary artery monitoring techniques. Case studies emphasizing these special procedures are presented.

This course provides an overview of the basics of pharmacology therapeutics, focusing on dosages and solutions and bronchodilator drugs. Indications, side effects, mechanism of action, and route of administration are discussed.

Cardiorespiratory Pharmacology I. An overview of pharmacologic agents and their effect on the various body systems. Drug effects on the respiratory, circulatory, and nervous systems are emphasized.

This course gives an overview of rehabilitation therapies and techniques applicable to chronic lung disease, as well as respiratory therapy home care. Basic concepts of gerontology and geriatrics are presented.

Specific theory and practice applied to directing and managing a respiratory therapy department, including the managerial functions of budgeting, controlling, organization, planning, staffing, and coordinating. Leadership and skills pertinent to these functions as well as effective communication and professionalism are included.

This course introduces students to the didactic and technical skills needed for successful proficiency of Advanced Cardiac Life Support standards as set forth by the American Heart Association.

Education techniques for patients and families dealing with chronic respiratory disease. Topics include asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and smoking cessation education. Assessment of learning readiness, reading levels, and patient comprehension will be addressed.

This course allows students to apply advanced patient assessment techniques, information gathering skills, and communication and leadership skills in the neonatal/pediatric and adult critical care clinical settings.

Students will manage patients in critical care settings with emphasis on cardiopulmonary assessment and monitoring. They will participate in pulmonary rehabilitation, home care, advanced cardiac life support, pulmonary functions, polysomnography, and other special procedures.

Elective Credit-Transfer