Syllabus items
| Adult non-critical | Adult critical | Paediatric (including newborn and infants) | Paediatric critical | |
| Assessment | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Techniques for airway clearance | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Respiratory muscle assessment and training, breathing strategies and techniques for lung expansion | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Exercise and physical activity | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pre- and post-operative physiotherapy | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Pharmacotherapy relevant to the physiotherapist | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Non-invasive ventilation | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Physiotherapy in the intensive care unit | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Mechanical ventilation for the respiratory physiotherapist | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Introduction to respiratory paediatrics | ✓ | ✓ | ||
| Communication and education | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Research | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
For the two tracks (adult and paediatric), the content of the modules may be different. The “critical” additional tracks are optional and provided for physiotherapists oriented to the treatment of critically ill patients, both adult and paediatrics. The full list of syllabus items can be consulted online at http://ow.ly/zYkOD