RSC431 Advanced Pulmonary Function Testing (8)
Abstract| This subject describes the practical performance and physiologic basis of specialised clinical respiratory measurement. These tests include determination of functional residual capacity and thoracic gas volume, pulmonary gas transfer, compliance, resistance and maximal intrapulmonary pressures. Quality control procedures relevant to the pulmonary function laboratory are also detailed. |
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+ Subject Availability Modes and Location
| Session 2 | | Distance | Wagga Wagga Campus |
Continuing students should consult the SAL for current offering details: RSC431
Where differences exist between the Handbook and the SAL, the SAL should be taken as containing the correct subject offering details.
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Subject information| Duration | Grading System | School: |
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| One session | HD/FL | School of Biomedical Sciences |
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Assumed Knowledge| (RSC410 and RSC421) or (RSC201) |
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Learning OutcomesUpon successful completion of this subject, students should:
* describe the equipment and the testing methods used in determination of functional residual capacity, thoracic gas volume, pulmonary gas transfer, compliance, resistance and maximal intrapulmonary pressure measurements;
* describe the calibration procedures and minimum equipment specifications for instruments used in the specialised clinical respiratory tests described above;
* appreciate the influence of equipment characteristics on the accuracy of physiological measurements attained by these methods;
* identify the rationale governing minimum patient performance criteria for each of the specialised clinical respiratory tests described above;
* define the parameters measured and their physiologic significance for each of the tests;
* describe the process of quality control specific to each of the specialised clinical respiratory tests described above;
* perform the specialised clinical respiratory tests described above;
* indicate the appropriate use of these clinical testing methods as aids in the assessment of respiratory disease;
* describe quality control processes and their application in clinical respiratory testing laboratories;
* use statistics in monitoring laboratory quality assurance. |
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SyllabusThe subject will cover the following topics:
The syllabus will cover the following topics:
Module 1: Respiratory mechanics and lung volumes
* physiologic basis of compliance, resistance and maximal intrapleural pressure measurement
* physiologic basis: gas dilution and gas washout methods; plethysmographic methods
* clinical measurement: equipment, gas analysers and volume or flow meters, gas cylinder use, plethysmographs
* calibration and minimum equipment specifications
* minimum patient performance criteria, prediction equations
* quality control issues
Module 2: Alveolar gas transfer
* physiologic basis
* clinical measurement: single breath method, steady state method
* calibration and minimum equipment specifications;
* minimum patient performance criteria, prediction equations
* quality control issues
Module 3: Laboratory quality assurance
* quality control concepts
* statistical methods
* statistics for quality assurance in the pulmonary function laboratory |
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The information contained in the 2015 CSU Handbook was accurate at the date of publication: 01 October 2015. The University reserves the right to vary the information at any time without notice.
