RESP 101Assessmnt/Crng for Resp P

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PREREQUISITES: Program Chair Approval. CATALOG DESCRIPTION: Presents an introduction into respiratory care including evaluating data in a patient’s record and recommending laboratory tests. Includes the process of interviewing and assessing the patient through inspection, palpation, percussion, and auscultation. Covers performing and evaluating a patient non-invasively. Includes topics on oxygen therapy, oxygen analyzers, use of specialty gases, humidity therapy, bland aerosol, medicated aerosol delivery devices and environmental therapy. Basic lung expansion therapy, airway management, including a variety of airway clearance techniques will be covered. Students will be presented information regarding infection control, how to provide care during cardiopulmonary resuscitation and obstructed/lost airway. Assembly and troubleshooting respiratory equipment will be required.