Respiratory and Cardiac

Have you ever wanted to increase you clinical skills in a specific area such as the respiratory system and cardiac system? Then this course is for you.

The workshop will build on knowledge already gained during your professional training and practice. The course is highly practical and is delivered by theory, practical workshops and clinical case studies. There will be many opportunities to practice your technique in a safe environment with highly skilled clinicians and each participant will have an opportunity to take an active part in the workshops. After you complete the course you will be encouraged to identify a clinical champion in your field who will provide supervision. Annie Barr Associates can provide clinical field mentoring. Mentoring will build on the course material. All field mentoring is provided with a clinical competency based framework, which can be added to your Professional Development Plan and can help towards your advanced practice education. Clinical field mentoring has increased success rates when practitioners are undertaking an OSCE.

• Introduction to Respiratory System an overview
• How to use a stethoscope correct techniques
• History Taking
• Interviewing techniques Approach and Overview
• Clinical Assessment in relation to the Cardiac and Respiratory system
• How to document findings
• Abbreviations
• Chest pain Cardiac or Respiratory - how to differentiate
• Anterior and Posterior Chest
• Inspection, Palpation, Percussion and Auscultation
• Breathing: Rate, rhythm, depth
• Stridor, wheezing dyspnoea
• Deformities, abnormal inspiratory retraction
• Flatness, Dullness, Resonance Hyperresonance Tympany
• Adventitious Lung Sounds
• Continuous Lung Sounds
• Pulmonary Function
• Common Abnormalities: Bronchitis, Consolidation, COPD Asthma Pneumothorax, Heart Failure
• Aids to interpretation
• Heart History
• Introduction to Cardiac System - brief overview
• Jugular Veins, Carotid Pulse
• Rate, Rhythm Heart Sounds
• The ECG
• ECG - how it links to the sounds depolarization and depolarization
• Normal heart sounds: First and second sounds; third and fourth sounds
• Abnormal heart sounds
• Opening snaps; systolic ejection sounds
• Murmurs - systolic and diastolic

By the end of this workshop, delegates will have:

• increased Cardiac and Respiratory Knowledge
• an understanding of assessment techniques and practice
• an advanced understanding of cardio-respiratory anatomy & physiology
• the ability to be able to undertake a detailed cardiac and respiratory history and examination

• Nurses
• Doctors
• Allied Health Professionals
• Paramedics
• Physiotherapists
• Pharmacists