RESP 207 — Critical Care Management I
This course covers, in detail, the advanced skills necessary to manage intensive care patients. Students will learn proper methods and techniques to evaluate, monitor, and use respiratory therapy protocols to provide advanced management therapies based on the pathophysiology of the critically ill patient. The student will be presented with knowledge of oxygen and carbon dioxide transport, airway management, chest drainage systems, cardiac function, and interventions, obtaining blood from arterial lines and radial artery punctures, and ABG and electrocardiogram interpretation skills will be taught.