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Apr 18, 2024
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2023-2025 Catalog Volume XXXI Ver 1
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DPT 6611 Management of Complex Patients
Lecture: 3 Lab: 1 Practica: 0 Total Credits: 4
This course addresses complex patient medical problems and their application to physical therapy management strategies across the continuum of care. The dysfunctional states or disorders considered may include primary disease or comorbidities in the cardiovascular, pulmonary, metabolic, gastrointestinal, hepatic, renal, lymphatic, immune, and integumentary systems. This course expands upon concepts introduced in physiology and previous systems-based courses and exists as a companion course for physical therapy management of the conditions covered in DPT 6671 Advanced Clinical Practice: Examining the Complex Patient. Students will learn to address multiple disease pathologies and co-morbidities as they compound to produce medically complex situations in patients. Students will examine the physical therapist implications of the medically complex patient across all continuums of care including inpatient, outpatient, home based, and institutional settings. This course will take both a systems-based and disease-based approach which will include disorders related to infectious disease, substance abuse, immunodeficiencies, oncology, and surgical procedures.
Prerequisite(s): Successful completion of Quarter 5 courses
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