Patient Monitoring and Instrumentation Credits: 3

Catalog description

This is a three credit hour course which integrates concepts of circuits and engineering with the clinical application of anesthesia instrumentation. To the extent possible, the material covered will be directly linked to clinical scenarios. In order for the monitors to be fully understood from a clinical management perspective, relevant physiology related to the monitors and to the field of anesthesia will be taught and practiced. In addition to the monitors, students will gain an in depth understanding of all parts of the anesthesia machine, anesthesia circuits, central line and arterial line equipment, and the properties of common intravenous and inhalational anesthetics.