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Course Name: Rehabilitation Considerations for Patients With Complex Medical Problems: Cardiac, Pulmonary and Vascular Disorders
Presenter: Karen Holtgrefe, PT, DHS, OCS
Price: $130.00
Number of CCU’s / Contact Hours: 15
Target Audience: PT, PTA’s, OT’s, OTA’s
Included: One Link to Access the Entire Set of Videos, A Course Manual (e-mailed), Sign-in Sheet, Evaluation and Summary Sheet

Course Description:

When working with patients with complex medical problems (cardiac, pulmonary, and vascular disorders), the physical therapist, occupational therapist and assistants must be proficient at monitoring the patient’s cardiovascular/pulmonary status (auscultation of heart and lungs, HR, BP, pulse oximetry, etc), interpreting the subsequent results, and if necessary, modifying the plan of care. What to monitor and how to adapt are dependent on the patient’s current status, including lab values and ECG, the specific cardiovascular, pulmonary, or vascular pathology, and the current medical treatment (pharmacology, surgery). This course offers participants realistic strategies to monitor and adjust treatments to enable safe and effective care in any practice setting (inpatient, long-term care, outpatient, and home health).

Topics:

Normal response to exercise and monitoring patients with cardiac pathology
Hypertension and management of patients with dysrhythmias
Management of patients with ischemic heart disease
Management of patients with heart failure and venous thromboembolism (VTE), deep vein thrombosis
Monitoring patients with pulmonary pathology
Pulmonary pathology and management of patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Management of patients with pneumonia, airway clearance, breathing, restrictive lung disorders and case studies

Learning Objectives:

At completion of this program, the participants will be able to:
Describe normal physiology and pathophysiology of the cardiovascular and pulmonary systems including HTN, arrhythmias, ischemic heart disease, congestive heart failure, restrictive and obstructive pulmonary disease, pneumonia, and deep vein thrombosus.
Discuss the common pharmacotherapeutic strategies used to treat patients with complex medical conditions as described above.
Review the normal and abnormal responses to exercise for cardiac and pulmonary patients.
Recognize appropriate physical therapy monitoring for patients with complex medical problems: vital signs, auscultation, ECG, and others.
Auscultate heart and lungs
Integrate lab values including CBC, PT/INR, PTT, blood gases, electrolytes, and others into physical therapy treatment plans.Modify physical therapy interventions based on patient response.

Presenter: Karen Holtgrefe, PT, DHS, OCS

Dr. Holtgrefe graduated from Texas Woman’s University in 1982 with a BS in Physical Therapy. She completed her MHS and DHS degrees from the University of Indianapolis in 1998 and 2006, respectively. She is Associate Professor and Chair of Physical Therapy at the College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio. Her teaching responsibilities include, acute care and cardiopulmonary evaluation and treatment, and exercise physiology. Dr Holtgrefe has a long record of local, state, regional, and national seminars on medical screening, acute care, and cardiopulmonary topics, and recently presented at World Congress of Physical Therapy in Amsterdam.