At the end of the course, students should be able to:
- Perform a clinical examination of a patient with a suspected respiratory illness
- Know what are the commonest tools supporting clinical examinations and their diagnostic implications
- Know for each disease:
- What is (definition)
- How relevant is (epidemiology)
- Why and how is develops (etiology, pathophysiology)
- Which are the clinical and instrumental features and how to make a diagnosis
- Which is the clinical course (natural history, complications)
- What to do and where (therapy, hospital- or home-based)
- Possible phases of the disease needing urgent interventions (how to recognise the emergency, and how to treat it)
- In which stages surgery is indicated
- the fundamental information for management of patients with heart or lung transplant
- the fundamental information for the management of respiratory failure
- lung structure and function
- lung function assessment: indications
- obstructive lung syndrome
- restrictive lung syndrome
Thoracic surgery:
- Surgical conditions of the trachea and main bronchi
- Malformations and diseases of the chest wall
- Pneumothorax
- Empyema
- Surgery of the lung cancer
- Mediastinal neoplasms
- Surgical conditions of the aesophagus
- Lung transplant
Interactive lessons and practical classes will be held at the Pneumology section - Forlanini Building (First and second Floor) - IRCCS San Matteo Hospital Foundation
HARRISON’s Principles of Internal Medicine. McGraw Hill
ERS (European Respiratory Society) Handbook of Respiratory Medicine
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