Fund of Respiratory Therapy III (RST 2140)

Term: 2023 Summer Semester

Faculty

George Delisle DarnellShow MyInfo popup for George Delisle Darnell

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Description

Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Respiratory Therapy Program.
Follows Fundamentals of RT I & II. Continues to prepare the student as a competent Respiratory Therapist at the advanced level. This course deals first with indications and need for mechanical ventilation; physiological aspects of ventilator support; in-depth discussion of how ventilators work, output waveforms, displays, and types of ventilators; initiation and adjusting of mechanical ventilation (invasive vs. non-invasive) to fit individual patients; and finally weaning the patient off ventilator support as well as the ever so hard decision of when discontinuing of ventilator support is necessary. If time allows, the course will start to discuss grasp monitoring in the critical care setting.