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RSTN 2250 - Principles of Ventilatory


Support lectures, demonstrations, and lab exercises covering the physiologic principles and clinical procedures used to provide both invasive and noninvasive artificial ventilatory support to adults, children and infants. Topics include: respiratory failure, airway management, physics and physiology of ventilatory support, initiating and adjusting ventilatory support, managing and monitoring the patient in respiratory failure, and discontinuing ventilator support.
Prerequisites: RSTN 2100  and RSTN 2189 .
Co-requisite:  RSTN 2289 .
3 lecture hours and 6 laboratory hours per week.
5 credit hours
This course is only available to students who have seen accepted into a Rutgers SHRP program. For the most current course description visit http://coursecatalog.shrp.rutgers.edu/