Pediatric Clinical Ex. Phys

Catalog description

This course is designed to provide the student with an introduction to Pediatric Exercise Medicine. From an overview of the cellular level to the larger organ system responses to exercise and normal cardiac anatomy and physiology. A comparative understanding of acute and chronic adaptations to exercise in patients with normal physiology and normal metabolism to how this is similar or different for children vs. adults, and those with congenital vs. acquired cardiac, pulmonary, metabolic, and or structural diseases and defects. Exercise testing in pediatric populations - how and why we test are examined. Basic electrocardiography will be examined, as well as basic practice reading ECG’s.