RCP - 535 Critical Respiratory Care

Instruction on all phases of adult critical care and continuous mechanical ventilation is provided. The history of mechanical ventilation, modes of mechanical ventilatory support, implementation, monitoring, ventilator weaning and discontinuance will be covered. Advanced critical care techniques for invasive and non-invasive patient monitoring will be covered. Hemodynamic monitoring will include arterial pressure monitoring, central venous and pulmonary artery catheters, and cardiac output measurement. Non-invasive monitoring techniques including oximetry, transcutaneous monitoring, inductance plethysmography, capnography, and metabolic testing are included. Prerequisites: RCP 511, RCP 512, RCP 513. Credit Hours: (4)