Respiratory Management Following a Spinal Cord Injury

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Gain the knowledge to improve breathing and coughing for your patients with a SCI

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Melanie Harding (Skeen)

Melanie has considerable experience in spinal cord rehabilitation, both as a clinician and a tutor

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Introduction

Respiratory dysfunction is one of the most common medical complications in individuals with a spinal cord injury. Physiotherapists can implement preventive strategies to reduce complications of inadequate ventilation following spinal cord injury. Early physiotherapy management can influence the function of all systems involved in normal respiration, including the musculoskeletal, neuromuscular and integumentary systems. The physiotherapy assessment is key to finding problems and choosing appropriate strategies to improve the patient’s ventilation. These techniques include positioning, secretion mobilisation, specialised breathing techniques, stretching and soft tissue release, respiratory muscle training and early mobilisation. Patient and caregiver education occurs in every phase of the post-spinal cord injury rehabilitation programme.

Aims

This course aims to present a comprehensive review of the physiotherapist's role in the respiratory management of individuals with a spinal cord injury.

Outline

This course is made up of videos, reading, forum posts and a final quiz. The course content is split into the following sections:

Video
Reading activity
Quiz

Target audience

This programme is aimed at rehabilitation professionals, students and assistants including but not limited to Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Rehabilitation Doctors, Rehabilitation Nurses, Prosthetists, Orthotists, Psychologists, Audiologists, Dietetics, Social Workers. Community Health Workers, Nurses or Medical Doctors interested in this subject are also invited to participate.

Practicalities

Availability - this course is online and can be completed on your own schedule.

Hours of Learning - No deadlines are applied to this course and it can be started and completed in your own time according to your personal schedule. We expect the required elements to take around 1.5-2 hours depending on your schedule and learning style. Additionally there are many optional resources provided and if you choose to review these the course could take longer to complete.

Types of Activities - Watching videos, reading, a final quiz and participating in an international discussion forum.

Certificates - At the end of the course, when you have completed all of the required elements, you will be able to download a certificate of completion and 1.3 Plus points will be added to your personalised learning dashboard.

Requirements to complete this course

In order to complete this course and receive a course completion certificate plus CEUs/CCUs/CPD points you will need to:

Respect the Plus Community Culture.
Log all the required learning activities as complete (represented by the orange icons!).
Actively and appropriately participate in the course discussions.
Pass a final quiz with a score of 80% or more.
Complete a course evaluation form.

Learning outcomes

At the end of this course you will be able to:

describe the principles of normal respiration
discuss respiratory deficiencies and complications following a spinal cord injury
explain elements of respiratory management during the acute phase of spinal cord injury
design appropriate therapeutic interventions for an individual with respiratory deficiencies following a spinal cord injury based on a case scenario

Instructor financial and non-financial disclosures

Melanie Harding (Skeen): No financial relationships disclosed by instructor.
Non-financial disclosure: Melanie Harding is the Chairman of SASCA (Southern African Spinal Cord Association)

Accessibility

For special needs or accommodations please contact us with details of how we can meet your needs.

Featured reviews

It is a well-planned course with relevant information. This course has opened up new experiences that are very easy to incorporate into my day-to-day patient care.Thank you.

Julius Ssekyewa

Physiotherapist

Uganda

I have reviewed my knowledge of anatomy and physiology, which I did not remember. Thanks for preparing such an excellent course!

Alozious Bataringaya

Occupational Therapist

Uganda

This course is a go-to in spinal cord respiratory rehab!

Prisca Obi

Student

Netherlands

It is a very informative course with many videos and demonstrations of techniques and indications for their use.

Madeline Joseph

Physiotherapist

Trinidad And Tobago

The way Melanie Harding explained respiratory management, along with short video clips, was so informative, especially for tetraplegic and high-level paraplegic patients! Thank you, Plus for providing such an opportunity to learn.

Ijaz Ul Haq

Physiotherapist

Pakistan

This course is fantastic for anyone looking to progress their career in SCI management!

Oluwakemi Ladipo-Fowora

Physiotherapist

Nigeria

This course looked at the systems involved in normal respiration, respiration sequence, muscles of ventilation, spinal cord injury and its impact on respiration and physiotherapy interventions.

Iyapuleni Ndinelao Lawanifwa Mbidi

Physiotherapist

Namibia

This course is going to be very useful in my day-to-day job!

AFNAN AMIN

Physiotherapist

Ireland

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