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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Respiratory Care Program. Corequisite: RC 110 and 112; BIOL 431. Hours: 54 hours LEC This course provides a foundation for the development of critical thinking skills necessary for the clinical practice of respiratory care. It gives a comprehensive overview of the cardiopulmonary system with emphasis on applied physiology expanding on the concepts introduced in anatomy and physiology, and provides in depth information on ventilation, gas transport and acid-base balance, including interpretation of data and the relationship of physiological principles to patient care.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Acceptance into the Respiratory Care Program. Corequisite: RC 110, 111, and 113. Hours: 36 hours LEC The course presents a clinically oriented guide to assessment of the patient's cardiopulmonary system with emphasis on its application to respiratory care procedures. It also describes assessment procedures, equipment, and the interpretation of results arising from the gathered information.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: Acceptance into Respiratory Care program. Corequisite: RC 110, 111, and 112. Hours: 108 hours LAB This course consists of laboratory introduction of skills and procedures as well as supervised clinical experience, with emphasis on the application of theories and techniques related to assessment of patients with cardiopulmonary illness. It integrates the patient assessment procedures, manipulation, examination, plus assessment of equipment, with the evaluation, interpretation, and application of patient data in the clinical setting.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: RC 110, 111, 112, and 113 with a grade of "C" or better.Corequisite: RC 121, 122, 123. Hours: 54 hours LEC The course covers the concepts and principles of pharmacology required in the practice of respiratory care, including medications, actions, dosages, routes of administration and adverse reactions. It also includes patient education of medication delivery devices, patient monitoring devices, utilization techniques, and the standards for therapeutic effi cacy in relation to asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease and smoking cessation.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: RC 110, 111, 112 with a grade of "C" or better.Corequisite: RC 120 and 122. Hours: 54 hours LEC This course covers the manifestations of cardiopulmonary and related diseases encountered in respiratory care practice. It presents the causes for and general treatment, as well as respiratory care treatment of these diseases. It also includes the evaluation for possible diagnoses, treatment approaches and evaluation of patient response to treatment for possible modifi cation.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: RC 110, 111, 112, and 113 with a grade of "C" or better.Corequisite: RC 120, 121, and 123; and PHYS 310. Hours: 54 hours LEC The course presents the principles of medical gas delivery devices; humidity, aerosol and hyperinfl ation therapies and chest physiotherapy. It also presents the application, patient assessment, patient monitoring, and the evaluation of the effi cacy of medical gas, humidity, aerosol and hyperinfl ation therapies and chest physiotherapy.
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2.00 Credits
Prerequisite: RC 110, 111, 112, and 113 with grade of "C" or better.Corequisite: RC 120, 121, 122. Hours: 108 hours LAB This course consists of laboratory introduction of skills and procedures as well as supervised clinical experience, with emphasis on the application of theories and techniques related to fundamental respiratory care procedures. Focus is on the application of skills learned in previous respiratory care courses while developing new skills related to medical gas, humidity, aerosol medication administration, hyperinfl ation therapies and chest physiotherapy.
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3.00 Credits
Prerequisite: RC 120, 121, 122 with a grade of "C" or better.Corequisite: RC 131. Hours: 54 hours LEC This course presents the principles of airway management, mechanical ventilatory support of the adult, hemodynamic monitoring, metabolic assessment, hyperbaric oxygen therapy and the transport of the mechanically ventilated adult. It presents advanced cardiopulmonary life support techniques.
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1.00 Credits
Prerequisite: RC 120, 121, 122, and 123 with grades of "C" or better.Corequisite: RC 130 and 132. Hours: 54 hours LAB This course provides in class laboratory practice in airway management, including intubation, suctioning and bronchoscopy to adult patients in critical care units. It further provides in class laboratory practice in non-invasive and invasive mechanical ventilatory support, including ventilator settings/adjustments, monitoring, adjusting ventilators to improve oxygenation and/or ventilation and discontinuance from ventilatory support on adult patients in critical care units.
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6.00 Credits
Prerequisite: RC 120, 121, 122, and 123 with grades of "C" or better.Corequisite: RC 130 and 131. Enrollment Limitation: Meet the health requirements of the Los Rios Community College District for Allied Health programs and certifi cation in Basic Life Support for the Health Care Provider. Hours: 324 hours LAB This course provides clinical practice in the application of airway management, including intubation, suctioning and bronchoscopy to adult patients in critical care units. It further provides clinical practice in application of non-invasive and invasive mechanical ventilatory support, including ventilator settings/adjustments, monitoring, adjusting ventilators to improve oxygenation and/or ventilation and discontinuance from ventilatory support on adult patients in critical care units.
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