Clinical Placement: Physiotherapy in Cardiorespiratory Diseases

The aim of the course is to familiarise the students with the approach to patients with diseases of the respiratory system, the clinical reasoning and decision making in a clinical environment. The students learn to link theory to evidence-based practice in a clinical setting. The clinical practice is focused mainly on a) the assessment of the chronic respiratory patient, the patient in the intensive care unit (ICU) and the surgical patient (lungs, heart, abdomen), b) goal setting and the application of individualised inventive programmes for each clinical case, and c) the clinical significance of the reassessment in relation to the effectiveness/appropriateness of the selected intervention.

Objectives

After completing the course the students should be able to:  Cooperate with the multidisciplinary group of each clinic for each case separately.  Approach and communicate with any category of patient (different ethnicity, religion, etc.).  Assess the respiratory and postoperative patient according to an appropriate methodology and to manage the findings of this assessment with comprehensive clinical reasoning.  Comprehend the variety of the available options in clinical practice, to educate the patients about the possible benefits of each option, and to jointly select the most appropriate and safe for the achievement of short- and long-term goals.  Reevaluate the selected intervention.

Prerequisites

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Syllabus

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