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2.00 Credits
Banner Title: Clinical Practice II Students develop skills used in clinical practice. Topics include medical gas therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, incentive spirometry, patient assessment, and mechanical ventilation with related critical care skills. Corequisite: RTT 209 Offered Fall term
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5.00 Credits
Banner Title: Pulmonary Disease This course provides students with information on the assessment of etiology, pathophysiology, treatment, and prognosis of common cardiopulmonary, cardiovascular, and pulmonary diseases and conditions. Topics include infectious diseases and conditions, respiratory diseases and conditions, neuromuscular diseases and conditions, cardiovascular diseases and conditions, patient assessment, laboratory tests, chest radiographs, and trauma. Corequisite: RTT 209 Offered Fall term
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5.00 Credits
Banner Title: Critical Respiratory Care This course introduces all phases of adult critical care and continuous mechanical ventilation. Topics include the history of mechanical ventilation, adult critical care, continuous mechanical ventilation, and ventilator implementation, monitoring, ventilator weaning, and discontinuance. Corequisite: RTT 216 Offered Winter term
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5.00 Credits
Banner Title: Mech Ventilation Equipment This course provides instruction in the theory, setup, operation, and maintenance of mechanical ventilators and equipment used to establish and maintain both adult and pediatric airways. Topics include ventilator operation, ventilator maintenance, emergency airway disorders, adult airway establishment and maintenance, pediatric airway establishment and maintenance, fiberoptic bronchoscopy, thoracentesis, chest tube maintenance, arterial blood gas sampling, and non-invasive ventilatory support. Corequisite: RTT 209, RTT 210, RTT 211 Offered Fall term
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2.00 Credits
Banner Title: Adv Critical Care Monitoring Students study advanced critical care techniques for hemodynamic and noinvasive monitoring. Topics include arterial pressure monitoring, central venous and pulmonary artery catheters, cardiac output measurement, and non-invasive monitoring techniques. Corequisites: RTT 217 Offered Spring term
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1.00 Credits
Banner Title: Pulmonary Function Testing Students obtain knowledge about normal and abnormal pulmonary functions. Instructors emphasize performance, interpretation, and evaluation of various pulmonary function studies. Topics include pulmonary function testing, pulmonary function evaluation and interpretation, blood gas analysis, and polysomnography. Corequisite: RTT 217 Offered Spring term
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3.00 Credits
Banner Title: Pediatric/Neonatal Care This course introduces the processes growth and development relating to respiratory care from the fetus to the adolescent. Course content relates the physiologic function to respiratory care assessment. Topics include fetal growth and development, neonatal growth and development, fetal assessment, neonatal assessment, neonatal respiratory care, neonatal and pediatric pathology, adolescent assessment, and adolescent respiratory care. Neonatal resuscitation protocol certification is included in this course. Prerequisites: RTT 209 with a grade of C or better, RTT 210 with a grade of C or better, RTT 211 with a grade of C or better, RTT 213 with a grade of C or better Corequisites: RTT 212, RTT 218, RTT 219 Offered Winter term
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5.00 Credits
Banner Title: Adv Respiratory Care Seminar This course reviews respiratory care as it pertains to the national credential examinations administered by the NBRC. Instructors emphasize decision-making and problem-solving as related to clinical respiratory care. Topics include medical ethics, basic computer literacy, CRT exam preparation, and RRT exam preparation. Prerequisites: RTT 212 with a grade of C or better, RTT 216 with a grade of C or better, RTT 218 with a grade of C or better, RTT 219 with a grade of C or better Corequisites: RTT 214, RTT 215, RTT 220, RTT 227 Offered Spring term
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2.00 Credits
Banner Title: Clinical Practice III Students continue to develop their proficiency in clinical skills introduced in Clinical Practice I and Clinical Practice II. In addition, course content introduces intermittent positive pressure breathing, chest physiotherapy, and airway care. Instructors require case presentations to integrate clinical and classroom theory. Topics include intermittent positive pressure breathing, chest physiotherapy, airway care, medical gas therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, incentive spirometry, and patient assessment Corequisites: RTT 216, RTT 212 Offered Winter term
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2.00 Credits
Banner Title: Clinical Practice IV This course provides experience in which students continue to develop proficiency in skills introduced in Clinical Practice I, Clinical Practice II, and Clinical Practice III. In addition, instructors introduce students to critical respiratory care. Students complete case presentations to integrate clinical and classroom theory. Topics include intermittent positive pressure breathing, chest physiotherapy, airway care, medical gas therapy, oxygen therapy, aerosol therapy, incentive spirometry, patient assessment, and respiratory care of the critical patient. Corequisite: RTT 216, RTT 212 Offered Winter term
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