RSPT 3967 Clinical Practicum III
This course provides students with the essential clinical skills necessary to function as competent respiratory therapists specifically in the trauma critical care unit with a focus on airway management, mechanical ventilation, and patient monitoring. Students will apply knowledge gained thus far, performing direct patient care in an ICU setting, evaluate medical records, assess oxygen therapy needs, administer medical gas, humidity, and aerosol therapy, oxygen analysis, sterilization/infection control procedures, hyperinflation therapy, bronchopulmonary hygiene techniques, airway management, bronchopulmonary hygiene, lung expansion therapy, pharmacotherapy, arterial blood gas punctures and analysis, invasive and noninvasive mechanical ventilation, and airway management techniques including extubation. Students work under the direct supervision of a clinical instructor. Case presentations are required to integrate clinical and classroom theory.