05242 - Respiratory Apparatus Diseases

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Dietistic (cod. 8470)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student knows the main respiratory diseases with particular reference to pathologies related to an incorrect lifestyle (sedentary obesity)

Course contents

Main signs and symptoms of the respiratory diseases

Pulmonary function tests

Respiratory Failure (diagnosis an mechanisms of acute and chronic respiratory failure) and oxygen therapy

COPD

Asthma

Obesity, OSAS, OHS, overlap syndrome

Readings/Bibliography

slides provided for the lesson

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons

Assessment methods

The final exam/final summative assessment will be an oral exam/assessment consisting of questions focusing on the educational objectives

Professors of the integrated courses participate in an overall collegial assessment of the student's final profit. The final summative assessment is expressed with a scale of grades from 18 to 30.

Teaching tools

PC

Slides

Office hours

See the website of Angela Maria Grazia Pacilli

SDGs

Good health and well-being

This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.