EMSP 1240 - Advanced Airway and Respiratory Emergencies

1. Airway Management
   • Anatomy
   • Assessment
   • Techniques of assuring a patent airway
2. Respiration

• Anatomy and physiology of the respiratory system
• Pathophysiology of respiratory system
• Oxygenation
• External and internal respiration
• Assessment and management of adequate and inadequate respiration
• Supplemental oxygen therapy
• Epidemiology
• Psychosocial impact
• Presentations, prognosis, and management of
  • Pleural effusion o Spontaneous pneumothorax
  • Obstructive/restrictive lung diseases
  • Pulmonary infections
  • Neoplasm
  • Pertussis
  • Cystic fibrosis
  • Acute upper airway infections

3. Artificial Ventilation
   • Assessment and management of adequate and inadequate ventilation
   • Artificial ventilation
   • Minute ventilation
   • Alveolar ventilation
   • Effect of artificial ventilation on cardiac output
4. Pulmonary
   • Ventilation and respiration
   • Asthma
   • Pulmonary edema
   • Field impressions
   • Ventilation devices
   • Assessment

1. describe the causes and pathophysiology of respiratory arrest.
2. develop, execute, and evaluate a treatment plan based on the field impression for the respiratory patient.
3. discuss the physiology of ventilation and respiration.
4. explain the primary objective of airway maintenance.
5. identify various disease processes effecting the respiratory system.
6. perform advanced airway management skills.

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