RET 4494 - Advanced Cardiopulmonary Pathophysiology

College of Health Sciences

Credit(s): 4
Contact Hours: 62
Effective Term Fall 2024 (640)

Requisites

(Admission to Health Services Administration (Bachelor of Applied Science) (HSA-BAS)
and Respiratory Care Subplan and
(Prerequisite HSA 3104 with a minimum grade of C or
Prerequisite HSA 4184 with a minimum grade of C)
) or
Permission of the Program Respiratory Care or
Admission to Cardiopulmonary Science (Bachelor of Science) (CARD-BS)

Course Description

This course explores a broad range of abnormalities in the physiologic functioning of the human cardiopulmonary system. Additional topics include the etiology, pathogenesis, and clinical manifestations of related systems to include the digestive, renal, nervous and endocrine systems. Course content prepares the credentialed Respiratory Therapist to distinguish between health and non-health of related systems

Learning Outcomes and Objectives

  1. The student will distinguish between the advanced physiological indices related to acute and chronic cardiopulmonary pathophysiology by:
    1. evaluating the advanced indices used to diagnose, monitor, and manage cardiopulmonary pathophysiology.
    2. categorizing the role various physiological indices play in the differential diagnosis process.
    3. comparing standard clinical presentation of disease processes with appropriate diagnostic protocol.
    4. identifying the appropriate steps in the treatment protocol for a given disease.
  2. The student will differentiate between the processes, clinical sequalae, and outcomes associated with inflammation, healing, and immune response by:
    1. explaining cell injury, aging and death and their relation to cardiopulmonary pathophysiology.
    2. summarizing the differences between various immune responses.
    3. comparing innate and adaptive immune mechanisms.
    4. analyzing the components of the immune system as part of preventive processes.
    5. applying concepts of epidemiology to the identification, definition and prevention of infectious disorders related to the cardiopulmonary system.
    6. discriminating between factors that influence the transmission of infectious agents and those that do not.
  3. The student will relate clinical interventions and life support protocols to fluid/electrolyte balance, acid-base balance, and hemodynamic pathophysiology by:
    1. distinguishing between the physiologic and pathophysiologic conditions that predispose and individual to disturbances in fluid balance.
    2. predicting how water and electrolyte movement across cell membranes is regulated during disease processes.
    3. deconstructing the theory of acid-base balance and the role it plays in homeostasis.
    4. analyzing the effects of hemodynamic function on clinical interventions and life support protocols.
  4. The student will analyze the etiology and clinical manifestations of cardiopulmonary disease processes as related to other body systems by:
    1. illustrating body systems and the role they play in cardiopulmonary disease processes.
    2. categorizing disease processes by etiology.
    3. categorizing disease processes by clinical manifestations.
    4. diagramming the cardiopulmonary system and how disease processes relate to other systems.

Criteria Performance Standard

Upon successful completion of course the student will, with a minimum of 70% accuracy, demonstrate mastery of each of the stated objectives through classroom measures developed by the individual course instructors.

History of Changes

C&I Approval: , BOT Approval: 08/20/2013, Effective Term: Spring 2014 (480). C&I Approval: 11/20/2015, BOT Approval: 03/15/2016, Effective Term: Fall 2016 (520).
C&I Approval: , BOT Approval: , Effective Term: Fall 2024 (640)

Related Programs

  1. Advanced Adult Critical Respiratory Care Certificate (RESACC-ATC) (565) (Active)
  2. Cardiopulmonary Science (CARD-BS) (655) (Active)