The course provides a comprehensive overview of the theory and practice of individual and group-oriented health education in a community setting. The course provides an individually-tailored practical experience, with emphasis on advanced diagnostic and therapeutic procedures used in managing patients with acute or chronic cardiopulmonary disorders. Lectures, laboratory demonstrations and experimentation are integrated with clinical practice. This course is designed to introduce students to the basic principles of pharmacological therapy with a special emphasis on drugs affecting the pulmonary and cardiovascular systems. The safe and effective administration of these drugs in relation to clinical practice is emphasized.
Emphasis is placed on the interrelationship of the cardiopulmonary systems.
This is the first of four courses in clinical practice. This course is designed to orient the student to the hospital environment. The theoretical concepts for this clinical experience are covered in RSTS2100 and RSTS2120. This course includes lectures, demonstrations and laboratory exercises in the physiological principles and techniques of mechanical ventilation of the patient in respiratory failure. Integration of patients with respiratory failure.