Physiotherapy in Special Populations I
Fisioterapia em Populações Especiais I
Curse code:9504304
Ângela Maria Correia de Figueiredo Abreu Pereira
Learning outcomes of the curricular unit:
At the end of the UC students should develop skills to:
- Be able to describe the fundamentals of clinical practice related physiology of mechanical ventilation and its implication in the physiopathology of individuals in Intensive Care;
- Know how to select the interface and adapt the user to non-invasive mechanical ventilation;
- Describe the process of evaluation of the users in intensive care;
- Describe and apply adequately the usual assessment and treatment techniques of respiratory physiotherapy in Intensive Care;
- Select and use the means of personal protection in their intervention, according to the clinical profile of the user;
- Select and use appropriately the instruments needed to evaluate the results of their intervention;
- Apply the recommendations according to level of evidence and degree of recommendation of the main treatment techniques used in cardiorespiratory physiotherapy, in order to implement good practices in Physical Therapy;
- Describe and apply adequately evidence-based standards and practice associated with infection control associated with health care;
- Base the options of evaluation and intervention throughout the decision-making process and Physiotherapy, according to an evidence-based practice;
- Develop programs to prevent and promote the well-being of the individual in different health contexts;
- Adequate physical exercise programs or physical activity for special groups, in a safe environment, according to the guidelines defined for a special group;
- Transmitting knowledge of BLS and ALS notions, giving students the ability to act appropriately in situations of emergency
Syllabus:
- MECHANICAL VENTILATION (INVASIVE AND NON-INVASIVE): Maintenance of the airway and artificial airway; Types, indications and side effects; Weaning strategies; Assessment of physiotherapy; Strategies and models of physiotherapist intervention; Passive and active techniques for lung expansion and increased expiratory flow; Analysis and discussion of research papers related to the subject
- PHYSIOLOGICAL PRINCIPLES OF EXERCISE PRESCRIPTION: Principles of exercise prescription; Physiological variables that underlie the control of exercise prescription; Prescription of exercise in special populations; Rehabilitation of lung transplantation; Intervention of the physiotherapist in coronary artery disease - Phase Intra-hospital; Exercise in coronary artery disease - phase extra hospital; Exercise in chronic pulmonary disease; Protocol rehabilitation lung transplantation
Suggested Bibliography:
- Guccione A, Wong A, Avers D (2013) Fisioterapia Geriatrica, 3ª ed. Rio de Janeiro: Guanabara Koogan
- Hough A (2001) Physiotherapy in respiratory care - a problem- solving approach to respiratory and cardiac management. 3ª ed London: Chapman & Hall
- McArdle WD (2011) Fisiologia do Exercício - Nutrição, Energia e Desempenho Humano. 7th ed. Rio de Janeiro:Guanabara Koogan
- Perracini MR, Flo CM (2009) Fisioterapia - Teoria e Prática Clínica Funcionalidade e Envelhecimento. 1st ed. Rio de Janeiro: Guanabara Koogan 2009
- Wasserman K, Hansen JE, Sue DY, Casaburi R, Whipp BJ (2004) Principles of Exercise Testing and Interpretation. 4ª ed. Baltimore: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins