Overview
On completion of this unit students should be able to relate cardiorespiratory physiology and pathophysiology to advanced clinical tests of cardiovascular and respiratory function including haemodynamic, electrophysiological and angiographic cardiovascular measurement. Students will gain vital knowledge of various pulmonary function tests including static lung volumes, pulmonary gas exchange, airway resistance, compliance, maximal pressures and blood gas measurements.
Details
Pre-requisites or Co-requisites
Pre-requisite BMSC12006 Cardiorespiratory Physiology and Measurement
Important note: Students enrolled in a subsequent unit who failed their pre-requisite unit, should drop the subsequent unit before the census date or within 10 working days of Fail grade notification. Students who do not drop the unit in this timeframe cannot later drop the unit without academic and financial liability. See details in the Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework).
Offerings For Term 2 - 2021
Attendance Requirements
All on-campus students are expected to attend scheduled classes – in some units, these classes are identified as a mandatory (pass/fail) component and attendance is compulsory. International students, on a student visa, must maintain a full time study load and meet both attendance and academic progress requirements in each study period (satisfactory attendance for International students is defined as maintaining at least an 80% attendance record).
Recommended Student Time Commitment
Each 6-credit Undergraduate unit at CQUniversity requires an overall time commitment of an average of 12.5 hours of study per week, making a total of 150 hours for the unit.
Class Timetable
Assessment Overview
Assessment Grading
This is a graded unit: your overall grade will be calculated from the marks or grades for each assessment task, based on the relative weightings shown in the table above. You must obtain an overall mark for the unit of at least 50%, or an overall grade of ‘pass’ in order to pass the unit. If any ‘pass/fail’ tasks are shown in the table above they must also be completed successfully (‘pass’ grade). You must also meet any minimum mark requirements specified for a particular assessment task, as detailed in the ‘assessment task’ section (note that in some instances, the minimum mark for a task may be greater than 50%). Consult the University’s Grades and Results Policy for more details of interim results and final grades.
All University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
You may wish to view these policies:
- Grades and Results Policy
- Assessment Policy and Procedure (Higher Education Coursework)
- Review of Grade Procedure
- Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – Domestic Students
- Monitoring Academic Progress (MAP) Policy and Procedure – International Students
- Student Refund and Credit Balance Policy and Procedure
- Student Feedback – Compliments and Complaints Policy and Procedure
- Information and Communications Technology Acceptable Use Policy and Procedure
This list is not an exhaustive list of all University policies. The full list of University policies are available on the CQUniversity Policy site.
Feedback, Recommendations and Responses
Every unit is reviewed for enhancement each year. At the most recent review, the following staff and student feedback items were identified and recommendations were made.
Feedback from Staff reflection
Continued use of pre-recorded lectures and a live tutorial session to promote engagement.
Lectures will be pre-recorded and made available at the start of the term. Live tutorials will be held via Zoom to allow students to ask questions and engage with the teaching staff.
- Describe the underlying physiology requiring clinical cardiorespiratory measurements
- Explain the various types of cardiorespiratory measurement according to best practice guidelines
- Rationalise the implementation of a particular cardiorespiratory measurement
- Interpret the results from cardiorespiratory measurement
- Consider the pharmacological implications for cardiorespiratory measurement.
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Learning Outcomes
| Assessment Tasks | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 60% | |||||
| 2 - Online Test - 40% | |||||
Alignment of Graduate Attributes to Learning Outcomes
| Graduate Attributes | Learning Outcomes | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | |
| 1 - Communication | |||||
| 2 - Problem Solving | |||||
| 3 - Critical Thinking | |||||
| 4 - Information Literacy | |||||
| 5 - Team Work | |||||
| 6 - Information Technology Competence | |||||
| 7 - Cross Cultural Competence | |||||
| 8 - Ethical practice | |||||
| 9 - Social Innovation | |||||
| 10 - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Cultures | |||||
Alignment of Assessment Tasks to Graduate Attributes
| Assessment Tasks | Graduate Attributes | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | |
| 1 - Written Assessment - 60% | ||||||||||
| 2 - Online Test - 40% | ||||||||||
Textbooks
Ruppel's manual of pulmonary function testing
11th Edition (2017)
Authors: Carl D Mottram
Elsevier
St Louis St Louis , Missouri , USA
ISBN: 9780323356251
Binding: Hardcover
ISE Electrocardiography for Health Professionals
5th Edition (2019)
Authors: Kathryn Booth and Thomas O'Brien
McGraw Hill
New York New York , America
ISBN: 9781260098310
Binding: Paperback
Additional Textbook Information
You will be required to have access to the prescribed textbook for this unit.
The supplemental textbook is not compulsory but may be useful for additional information.
IT Resources
- CQUniversity Student Email
- Internet
- Unit Website (Moodle)
All submissions for this unit must use the referencing style: Harvard (author-date)
For further information, see the Assessment Tasks.
c.pullen@cqu.edu.au
Module/Topic
Indications for Pulmonary Function Testing
Chapter
Mottram (Chapter 1)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Spirometry and Diffusing Tests
Chapter
Mottram (Chapters 2 and 3)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Lung Volumes and Gas Distribution Tests
Ventilation and Ventilatory Control Tests
Chapter
Mottram (Chapters 4 and 5)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Blood Gases
Paediatric Pulmonary Function Tests
Chapter
Mottram (Chapters 6 and 8)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Cardiopulmonary Exercise Testing
Bronchoprovocation and Specialised test regimens
Chapter
Mottram (Chapters 7, 9 and 10)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Pulmonary Function Testing Equipment and Quality Assurance
Chapter
Mottram (Chapters 11 and 12)
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Electrocardiogram part 1
Chapter
Moodle resource
See e-Reading List
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Electrocardiogram part 2
Chapter
Moodle resource
See e-Reading List
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Electrocardiogram part 3
Chapter
Moodle resource
See e-Reading List
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Moodle resource
See e-Reading ListEvents and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Clinical testing - Non-invasive tests, Echocardiography
Chapter
Moodle resource
See e-Reading List
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Clinical testing - Electrophysiology and cardiac pacing, Cardiac catheterisation, and Coronary angioplasty and stenting
Chapter
Moodle resource
See e-Reading ListEvents and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Module/Topic
Chapter
Events and Submissions/Topic
Lectures will be pre-recorded and made available throughout the term.
Please see the timetable for the dates and time of the scheduled tutorials. All tutorials will be held via zoom.
1 Written Assessment
This unit builds upon key concepts presented during foundation and intermediate anatomy and physiology units already completed during your degree (BMSC11001, BMSC11002, BMSC12006). In meeting this objective, you will learn about testing procedures which can be performed to assess the functionality of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems. Having an understanding of these testing procedures, the data they generate and the physiological implications of the results are of paramount importance, not only for your career as a medical scientist but also because they are integral diagnostic procedures routinely used in clinical settings. This assessment task will assist you in understanding how pathological conditions of the cardiovascular and respiratory systems impact upon normal physiology and how they present in routine clinical tests.
You will be given case studies and associated data. You will be required to interpret the given information by identifying the pathological condition that is presented and answer a series of questions which relate to each case study. In providing a response you may refer to the textbook, journal articles, and profession body websites.
Further information regarding the assessment item will be available on the unit Moodle page.
Week 10 Friday (24 Sept 2021) 5:00 pm AEST
Week 12 Friday (8 Oct 2021)
Feedback will be returned via Moodle.
Performance in this task will be measured using the criteria of accuracy and a question-specific rubric, which will be made available via the Moodle site.
- Describe the underlying physiology requiring clinical cardiorespiratory measurements
- Explain the various types of cardiorespiratory measurement according to best practice guidelines
- Rationalise the implementation of a particular cardiorespiratory measurement
- Interpret the results from cardiorespiratory measurement
- Consider the pharmacological implications for cardiorespiratory measurement.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Ethical practice
2 Online Test
The end of term online test will assess the content covered throughout the term (weeks 1-12).
Details regarding the date, time and structure of the online test will be provided via the Moodle site during the term.Exam Week. Date will be finalised and communicated to students via the Moodle site.
Certification of Grades
No Assessment Criteria
No submission method provided.
- Describe the underlying physiology requiring clinical cardiorespiratory measurements
- Explain the various types of cardiorespiratory measurement according to best practice guidelines
- Rationalise the implementation of a particular cardiorespiratory measurement
- Interpret the results from cardiorespiratory measurement
- Consider the pharmacological implications for cardiorespiratory measurement.
- Communication
- Problem Solving
- Critical Thinking
- Information Literacy
- Ethical practice
As a CQUniversity student you are expected to act honestly in all aspects of your academic work.
Any assessable work undertaken or submitted for review or assessment must be your own work. Assessable work is any type of work you do to meet the assessment requirements in the unit, including draft work submitted for review and feedback and final work to be assessed.
When you use the ideas, words or data of others in your assessment, you must thoroughly and clearly acknowledge the source of this information by using the correct referencing style for your unit. Using others’ work without proper acknowledgement may be considered a form of intellectual dishonesty.
Participating honestly, respectfully, responsibly, and fairly in your university study ensures the CQUniversity qualification you earn will be valued as a true indication of your individual academic achievement and will continue to receive the respect and recognition it deserves.
As a student, you are responsible for reading and following CQUniversity’s policies, including the Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure. This policy sets out CQUniversity’s expectations of you to act with integrity, examples of academic integrity breaches to avoid, the processes used to address alleged breaches of academic integrity, and potential penalties.
What is a breach of academic integrity?
A breach of academic integrity includes but is not limited to plagiarism, self-plagiarism, collusion, cheating, contract cheating, and academic misconduct. The Student Academic Integrity Policy and Procedure defines what these terms mean and gives examples.
Why is academic integrity important?
A breach of academic integrity may result in one or more penalties, including suspension or even expulsion from the University. It can also have negative implications for student visas and future enrolment at CQUniversity or elsewhere. Students who engage in contract cheating also risk being blackmailed by contract cheating services.
Where can I get assistance?
For academic advice and guidance, the Academic Learning Centre (ALC) can support you in becoming confident in completing assessments with integrity and of high standard.
What can you do to act with integrity?
