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Course Name: Management of Patients with Cardiopulmonary Disease: Review and Update
Presenter: Donald Shaw, PT, PhD, D. Min., FAACVPR
Dates: Saturday, October 14, 2017 – Sunday, October 15, 2017
Tuition: $325.00 – Early Registration
$375.00 – After Saturday, September 30, 2017
Location: Slidell Memorial Hospital
Founder Conference Room
1150 Robert Road
Slidell, LA  70458
Number of CCU’s / Contact Hours: 15
Target Audience: PT’s, PTA”s, OT, OTA’s, ATC’s

Course Description:

Patients with cardiopulmonary disease often present a special challenge to therapists.  Frequently diagnoses are complex necessitating a cautious approach to both treatment and exercise progression. This two-day course is designed to address many of these complexities while providing a review and update of contemporary therapy strategies.  Course content includes both lecture and laboratory components to enhance the learning process.  Topics build upon one another beginning with a review of cardiopulmonary structure/function and ending with specific exercise strategies.  By the end of this course, therapists will have therapeutic tools they can immediately apply in their practice settings.

Schedule:

Day One – Saturday, October 14, 2017

8:00 – 8:45 am    Heart/Lung Structure and Function:  Heart chambers and valves, airway structures, electrical conduction, blood flow to the heart and lungs including characteristics of coronary and pulmonary circulation, ventilation vs respiration
8:45 -9:45 am   Basic Exercise Physiology Concepts:  Aerobic and anaerobic exercise and metabolic demand during functions and activities, metabolic and cardiopulmonary response to aerobic exercise
9:45 – 10:15 am Laboratory Values:  Normal and abnormal lab values, interpretations of lab values for clinical assessment of cardiopulmonary dysfunction, acid/base determination
10:15 – 10:30 am  Break
10:30 – 12:00 n   Exercise Prescription:  Guidelines, methods, prescription, progression, termination
12:00 – 1:00 pm    Lunch
1:00 – 2:00 pm    Angina and Myocardial Infarction: Incidence, etiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, clinical assessment, pharmacological management, exercise guidelines
2:00 – 3:15 pm    Congestive Heart Failure:  Incidence, etiology, pathophysiology, clinical manifestations, clinical assessment, pharmacological management, therapeutic management, exercise guidelines
3:15 – 3:30 pm  Break
3:30 – 5:00 pm  Coronary Artery Bypass Graft and Heart Valve Surgery:  Rationale, incidence, methodologies, post-surgical therapy implications, exercise guidelines, sternal precautions
5:00 pm End of Day One

Day Two – Sunday, October 15, 2017

8:00 – 10:00 am   EKG Laboratory: Analysis and interpretation (Video presentation and group activities)
10:00 – 10:15 am  Break
10:15 – 11:30 n     Cardiopulmonary Screening: Heart-lung sounds, jugular vein distension, walk test (Video presentation and group activities – bring a stethoscope)
11:30 – 12:30 pm    Lunch
12:30 – 1:30 pm     Pulmonary Disease: Obstructive vs restrictive types, assessment, exercise implications
1:30 – 2:00 pm      Acid/Base Determination: Respiratory acidosis, respiratory alkalosis, metabolic acidosis, metabolic alkalosis, compensation
2:00 – 2:15 pm    Break
2:15 – 3:15 pm    Medications:  Overview of cardiac and pulmonary medications; exercise performance and safety implications
3:15 – 5:00 pm   Exercise Environment: facilities, equipment, motivation     
End of Day Two and Course

Learning Objectives:

At completion of this program, the participants will be able to:

Describe the key features of heart and lung structure and function;
Recognize the essential aspects of the body’s immediate and chronic response to exercise stimulus
Understand basic laboratory data with regard to normal ranges
Contrast similarities and differences between various cardiac and pulmonary diagnoses
Articulate the mechanisms leading to uncompensated congestive heart failure
Appreciate the various complications often associated with coronary artery bypass graft and heart valve surgery;
Develop and modify exercise prescriptions for patients with post myocardial infarction and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease diagnoses
Demonstrate either new or enhanced skills in chest auscultation, basic electrocardiography, and exercise methods

Presenter: Donald Shaw, PT, PhD, D. Min., FAACVPR

Donald K. Shaw, PhD, PT, is a Professor in the Physical Therapy Program at Franklin Pierce University – Arizona Campus.  Prior to his present position, Dr. Shaw was a Professor of Physical Therapy at Nova Southeastern University and at Midwestern University.  In 2002, he joined the physical therapy faculty at Texas State University and developed their Telehealth Program.  His academic career began at East Carolina University where he was an Associate Professor in the Physical Therapy Department.  Clinically, he served as Director of Cardiac Rehabilitation at Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville, Tennessee and as Adjunct Assistant Professor at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Shaw received his Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Physical Education from George Williams College in Chicago, Illinois; his doctorate in Exercise Physiology from Kent State University in Kent, Ohio.  He received his Bachelor of Science in Physical Therapy from Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas.  Most recently, he completed his D.Min. degree in Christian Apologetics at Southern Evangelical Seminary in Matthews, North Carolina. Dr. Shaw is a Fellow and former national board member of the American Association of Cardiovascular and Pulmonary Rehabilitation.  He has lectured and presented research in Argentina, Scotland, Ireland, the Peoples Republic of China, the Dominican Republic, Puerto Rico, and throughout the United States.  His published work appears widely in medical journals including the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation, Respiratory Care, Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Cardiopulmonary Physical Therapy Journal, Heart and Lung, Journal of Allied Health, and the American Journal of Cardiology. He has received both university teaching and scholarship awards.