PT 938 - Cardiopulmonary Disorders

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This course is designed to give students the knowledge and background to allow them to evaluate and treat patients with cardiopulmonary diseases as the primary diagnoses and patients being seen for other physical therapy diagnosis who have cardiopulmonary disease. The course will cover elementary ECG interpretation, exercise testing, principles of cardiac rehabilitation, peripheral vascular disease and related cardiovascular diagnoses. The students will also be presented information on the processes for diagnosing pulmonary disease, understanding how pulmonary disease affects exercise tolerance and designing effective rehabilitation programs for patients with primary pulmonary diagnoses. Other topics to be covered include critical illness induced myopathy/weakness, mobilizing ventilator dependent patients, use of supplemental oxygen at rest and during exercise, ventilator induced diaphragm dysfunction and treatment.