Clinical Physiology, Part I (3 cr)
Code: 7B00BC00-3008
General information
- Enrolment period
- 24.05.2019 - 12.08.2019
- Registration for the implementation has ended.
- Timing
- 14.08.2019 - 31.10.2019
- Implementation has ended.
- Credits
- 3 cr
- Mode of delivery
- Contact learning
- Unit
- Biomedical Laboratory Science
- Campus
- TAMK Main Campus
- Teaching languages
- Finnish
- Degree programmes
- Degree Programme in Biomedical Laboratory Science
Objectives (course unit)
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 (course unit)
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 (course unit)
Student must have passed 7B00BB87 Anathomy and Physiology before the course
Assessment scale
0-5
Further information
The course includes clinical training in the university of applied sciences’ teaching laboratory