PT 700 Cardiopulmonary Clinical Lab

Prerequisites: Clinical practice experience within a health care discipline. Students will have an opportunity to use case examples to incorporate physiologic principles and practice interpreting normal and abnormal results of common cardiac and pulmonary clinical tests. Lecture and class discussions will focus on: EKGs, pulmonary function tests, pulse oximetry/arterial blood gases, and exercise tolerance tests. Students will be given case studies with a variety of test results in order to practice the interpretation of results. Discussions will demonstrate how to incorporate the interpretations into therapeutic decision making and use them in intervention planning. Eight 2 ½ hour sessions will be offered. For 2 graduate level credits, students will be presented a final patient case to analyze, interpret cardiopulmonary test data on, and develop a plan for intervention within their own disciplinary practice guidelines.

Credits

2