Course Details : Ventilator Course (Pre-recorded)

Course Description

This 3-hour course emphasizes key considerations applicable to the rehabilitation professional in effectively managing patients with respiratory failure. The majority of the time will be spent taking a very close look at how ventilators work to provide therapists with advanced information needed to assist them in treating patients who have respiratory compromise. The course will then attempt to emphasize the response-dependent approach to managing these patients. Evaluation strategies, organized clinical decision making, and effective treatment techniques will be emphasized. Clinicians are challenged to integrate and synthesize physiological and clinical principles in decision making through the use of this information.     

Course Objectives

At the end of the course the learner will:

1. Recognize “What is Ventilation” 
2. Appreciate the differences between non-invasive and invasive ventilation.
3. Understand the settings on a mechanical ventilator. 
4. Recognize the settings of a mechanical ventilator and appreciate a patient’s clinical stability by accurately monitoring their responses on the ventilator. 
5. Adapt treatment sessions based on a patient’s physiologic response.   

Course Agenda

Part I: What is Ventilation and what equipment do we use to support it.    

Part II: Understanding the modes of mechanical ventilation.  

Part III: Review PT and OT implications for management of patient’s on mechanical ventilation.       

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