507887 - PNEUMOLOGY (A-L)

Upon completion of the course, students should know how to: - perform a clinical examination of the patient with diagnostic suspicion setting - what are the most common instrumental tests supporting the clinical examination and what is their diagnostic significance - for each of the morbid pictures know: - what it is (definition) - how important it is (epidemiology) - why and how it occurs (etiology, pathophysiology) - what the clinical and instrumental features are and how the diagnosis is made - what it can lead to (natural history, complications) - what to do and where (basics for therapy, home and hospital therapy) - possible stages of the disease needing urgent intervention (how to recognize urgency, how to treat it) - at what advanced stages surgical interventions are needed - basics for the management of the heart and lung transplant patient. - basics for the management of respiratory failure - cross-cutting objectives: acquisition of critical sense in the evaluation of the respiratory patient - acquisition of communication skills