21334 - Respiratory Apparatus Diseases

Academic Year 2019/2020

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 8474)

    Also valid for First cycle degree programme (L) in Speech and Language Therapy (cod. 8478)

Learning outcomes

the student learns the pathophysiological basis and the clinical presentation of the main respiratory diseases.

Course contents

  • main signs and symptoms of the respiratory diseases
  • lung function tests
  • COPD
  • asthma
  • respiratory failure
  • oxygen therapy
  • community acquired and hospital acquired pneumonia
  • aspiration pneumonia aspiration chemical pneumonitis

Teaching methods

frontal lessons

Assessment methods

written test with multiple choice between 4 alternative answers

Teaching tools

PC

slides

Office hours

See the website of Paolo Carbonara