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Winter 2014
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| RT 144 - Principles of Respiratory Care |
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Associated Term:
Winter 2014
Learning Objectives: Upon successful completion of this course, the student should be able to: 1. Distinguish between methods of storage and delivery of medical gases and explain the difference in the safety systems 2. Describe the rationale, application, indications for, contraindications, and hazards of medical gas therapy 3. Explain the rationale, the indications for, the contraindications, limitations, and hazards of humidity and aerosol therapy; be able to appropriately select the proper mode of humidity and aerosol therapy for a given clinical situations 4. Demonstrate understanding of aerosol drug therapy through proper selection of medication, device for delivery, therapeutic dosages, patient education, and monitoring 5. List general categories of pulmonary medications, identify both brand and generic names, identify indications for use, mode of action, adverse effects, and assessment of the therapy 6. Explain the rationale, indications, contraindications, limitations, hazards, and goals of lung expansion therapy 7. Distinguish between the different modalities of bronchial hygiene therapy as well as listing the indications, contraindications, hazards, limitations, goals, implementation and assessment of therapy for each modality 8. Describe the role of the RCP, as well as the equipment and techniques utilized in the management of the airway Required Materials: Technical Requirements: |
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