RESP 103 — Fundamentals of Respiratory Care III
This course focuses on the respiratory care practitioner as critical care team member and team leader. Students learn to assess degrees of respiratory failure, mechanical ventilatory care, PEEP, CPAP, and weaning from the ventilator. Attempts are made to put the complications and benefits of ventilator therapy into proper perspective. Analysis of ventilators and graphics is studied. The students acquire an understanding of basic electrocardiogram interpretation and of non-invasive and invasive hemodynamic monitoring. Both acute and chronic illnesses are used as case bases. The laboratory and the clinical components offer practical application of the topic areas in the hospital intensive care units. Four lecture and one laboratory hours per week. Clinical: 12 hours. II completed with a grade of 75 (C) or higher in the lecture component and a grade of pass in the clinical component and lab in order to continue in the program.