Clinical Physiology, Part I (3cr)

Objectives

Student is able to
- guide the patient to basic clinical physiology examinations in a client-oriented manner considering the preparation instructions
- take care of patient safety and wellbeing during the examination
- know basics of patient examination methods
- perform the ECG registration, measure resting blood pressure, and evaluate reliability of results based on reference values
- identify normal ECG curves and the most common deviations of the normal curve
- know basics of the clinical exercise test
- understand the meaning of the day registration of ECG and blood pressure

Content

Carrying out high-quality ECG-registrations
Systematic identification of ECG-curves
Blood pressure measurements at rest
Practice of the clinical exercise test
Patient safety issues

Prerequisites

Student must have passed 7B00BB87 Anathomy and Physiology before the course

Further information

The course includes clinical training in the university of applied sciences’ teaching laboratory