Chest Medicine ((3 Credits ))

Catalog description

This course introduces the respiratory care student to the nature and causes of cardiopulmonary diseases. The etiology, clinical manifestation, pathogenesis, laboratory data, diagnostic imaging, and treatment for major chronic and acute cardiopulmonary disease entities will be presented. Disease types include obstructive and restrictive lung diseases, inflammatory, vascular, and pleural diseases, cancer and related lung masses, and infection of the lung.