RTH 251 - Neonatal and Pediatric Specialty Therapeutics

1. Utilize critical thinking skills to determine the need for, monitor the patient, evaluate the effectiveness of, and perform basic and advanced respiratory care procedures on neonatal and pediatric patients.
2. Perform pediatric advanced life support (PALS), neonatal resuscitation procedures, mock code situations, cardiopulmonary medication administration, and mechanical ventilation.
3. Determine which patients would benefit from pulmonary rehabilitation, establish patient learning needs, develop lesson plans for patient education, prescribe an exercise testing and training program, and evaluate the effectiveness of the training program.
4. Determine which patients would benefit from respiratory home care, what equipment and training they need, how they are monitored in the home, and describe how homecare companies operate.

1. Pediatric Advanced Life Support (PALS)
   1. Core concepts
   2. Application and practice of core concepts
   3. Written assessment
   4. Core case scenario assessment
2. Assessment and Monitoring of the Neonatal and Pediatric Patient
   1. Examination and Assessment
   2. Pulmonary Function Testing
   3. Invasive blood gas analysis and cardiovascular monitoring
   4. Noninvasive monitoring
3. Therapeutic Procedures for Treatment of Neonatal and Pediatric Disorders
   1. Oxygen and gas mixtures
   2. Aerosol and Humidity Therapy
   3. Airway management and clearance
   4. Surfactant Therapy
   5. Noninvasive mechanical ventilation
   6. Management of invasive mechanical ventilation
   7. Special procedures ECMO and thoracic organ transplant
4. Pulmonary Rehabilitation
   1. Program structures
   2. Components of rehabilitation
   3. Ventilation retraining
   4. Exercise retraining
5. Home Care
   1. The home care team
   2. Financial concerns of home care
   3. Home ventilator care
   4. Tracheotomy care in the home setting
   5. Home care companies