- Docente: Fernando Rizzello
- Credits: 2
- SSD: MED/09
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Physiotherapy (cod. 8476)
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from Mar 24, 2025 to May 20, 2025
Learning outcomes
At the end of the module the student has the knowledge and ability to understand disorders affecting the chest, abdomen and pelvis, swallowing and eating disorders. He knows and has the ability to understand the main alterations of functional systems as well as the health and social implications.
Course contents
Respiratory system disorders:
Notes on physiopathology and applied semeiotic
Acute and chronic respiratory failure
Infectious pneumonia
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
Asthma
Pneumothorax
Pleural pathologies
Cancer of the respiratory system
Cardiovascular diseases:
Notes on physiopathology and applied semeiotic
Chronic heart failure
Acute pulmonary edema
Cardiac angina
Myocardial infarction
Notes on cardiac arhythmology
Embolisms and thrombosis
Aortic aneurysm
Aortic dissection
Peripheral vascular diseases
Gastrointestinal Diseases
Notes on physiopathology and applied semeiotic
Acute conditions: intestinal obstruction, perforation, diverticulitis
Bleeding from the gastrointestinal tract and anemia
Intestinal ischemia
Hepato-pancreatic pathologies
Dizziness. Transient loss of consciousness. Coma. Stroke. TIA
Dementia and delirium
Immobility and bed rest syndrome - Preventive instructions to care-givers
Readings/Bibliography
Slides and other material discussed
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons
Assessment methods
Six exam sessions per year (the first summer session in the form of a multiple choice quiz; in the remaining five sessions the exam will be oral, concerning an internal medicine topic
Teaching tools
slides
Office hours
See the website of Fernando Rizzello
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.