84625 - Respiratory System Pathophysiology -

Academic Year 2022/2023

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Neurophysiopathology techniques (cod. 8482)

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

Pathophysiology of pulmonary ventilatio

Pathophysiology of gas exchange

Pulmonary Function Tests (spirometry, plethismography and diffusion capacity tests)

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 assessment will be an oral exam/assessment consisting of questions focusing on the educational objectives and topics.

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.