Components: Theory
Credit Hours: 2
Course Schedule: Semester
This Advanced Respiratory Critical Care management course is designed to prepare the Respiratory Care students to recognize and manage emergency and critical conditions faced on daily bases. This course represents the scope of Respiratory Therapist as an ICU Therapist/ Emergency Care therapist using a Clinical approach. Assessment, diagnosis, intervention, and evaluation of patients in critical conditions will be discussed. A significant portion of the course is devoted to Adult and Pediatric Disorders and practice issues. This course involves Advance Cardiac life Support, Pediatric Advanced Life Support, Airway Management, Bronchoscopy and Hemodynamic Monitoring in ICU.