Course Unit Page
-
Teacher Angela Maria Grazia Pacilli
-
Credits 1
-
Teaching Mode Traditional lectures
-
Language Italian
-
Campus of Bologna
-
Degree Programme Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
-
Course Timetable from Mar 01, 2022 to Mar 22, 2022
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.

Academic Year 2021/2022
Learning outcomes
The course provides the essential elements of respiratory diseases, functional tests and diagnostic approaches to acute and chronic respiratory failure, elements of therapy.
Course contents
Pulmonary function tests (spirometry, plethismography and diffusion capacity tests)
Pathophysiology of pulmonary ventilatio
Pathophysiology of gas exchange
Arterial bloog gases
Respiratory Failure (diagnosis an mechanisms of acute and chronic respiratory failure) and oxygen therapy
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons
Assessment methods
The final exam/final summative assessmentwill be an oral exam/assessment consisting of questions focusing on the educational objectives and topics of the integrated course of Thoracic and Vascular Diseases (I.C.)
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.
- The final assessment (final summative assessment) is passed with a collegial grade of a minimum 18/30
- Honors (cum laude) can be awarded in case of a final maximum collegial assessment (30/30)
Teaching tools
PC
Slides
Office hours
See the website of Angela Maria Grazia Pacilli