COURSE UNIT TITLE

: CARDIOPULMONARY PHYSIOTHERAPY-REHABILITATION IN SURGERY

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
FTK 5034 CARDIOPULMONARY PHYSIOTHERAPY-REHABILITATION IN SURGERY ELECTIVE 3 2 0 8

Offered By

Cardiopulmonary Physiotherapy

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR MERIÇ YILDIRIM

Offered to

Cardiopulmonary Physiotherapy

Course Objective

To improve the student's clinical practical skills in patients undergone surgery, to increase the student's ability to plan the physiotherapy program before and after surgery and to improve the ability of clinical thinking.

Öğrencinin cerrahi hastalarında klinik uygulama becerisini geliştirmek, cerrahi öncesi ve sonrası fizyoterapi programı oluşturma ve klinik düşünme yeteneğini artırmaktır.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Defines transplantation, thorax and abdomen surgeries
2   Knows risk factors of surgery
3   Knows preoperative and postoperative complications
4   Applies and chooses the proper physiotherapy assessments and approaches to different surgery approaches.
5   Knows multidisciplinary team work.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to lecture
2 Wound healing
3 Electrolyte imbalance, shock
4 Thorax surgeries
5 Physiotherapy assessment methods in thorax surgeries
6 Physiotherapy-rehabilitation in thorax surgeries
7 Abdominal surgeries
8 Physiotherapy assessment methods in abdominal surgeries
9 Physiotherapy-rehabilitation in abdominal surgeries
10 Breast surgeries, lymphedema
11 Assessment and physiotherapy-rehabilitation in breast surgery
12 Assessment and physiotherapy-rehabilitation in heart and lung transplantation
13 Assessment and physiotherapy-rehabilitation in kidney and liver transplantation
14 Case study

Recomended or Required Reading

1. M. Rieu. Physical Work Capacity in Organ Transplantation.1998
2. John Gormley, Juliette Hussey. Exercise Therapy: Prevention and Treatment of Disease. 2005
3. Cecily Partridge. Recent Advances in Physiotherapy.2007
4. Nadey S. Hakim, Vassilios E. Papalois. Surgery complications: Diagnosis and Treatment. 2007

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Conference type lecture
2. Laboratory work
3. Problem based learning

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRF PERFORMANCE
2 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRF


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

To be announced.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

To be announced.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

To be announced.

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Group session 14 2 28
Lectures 14 2 28
Preparing presentations 14 2 28
Preparing assignments 14 3 42
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 14 5 70
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 196

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13
LO.11
LO.21
LO.31
LO.41111
LO.51

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