84668 - Airways System Diseases

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Speech and Language Therapy (cod. 9080)

Learning outcomes

During the course, students acquire knowledge about physiology, physiopathology, clinical pictures, diagnosis and treatment of respiratory diseases

Course contents

- respiratory system anatomy and pathophysiology

- respiratory failure (mechanisms and classification)

- pulmonary function tests

- obstructive pulmonary diseases (COPD, asthma, bronchiectasis)

- pneumonia (community-acquired, hospital-acquired)

- Interstitial lung diseases

- lung cancer

Readings/Bibliography

The teaching material will be provided during the lessons.

Teaching methods

Lessons

Assessment methods

Examination

Teaching tools

Slides

Office hours

See the website of Claudia Ravaglia