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CODE 68207
ACADEMIC YEAR 2024/2025
CREDITS
SCIENTIFIC DISCIPLINARY SECTOR MED/48
LANGUAGE Italian
TEACHING LOCATION
  • CHIAVARI
  • PIETRA LIGURE
  • LA SPEZIA
  • GE SAN MARTINO
SEMESTER 1° Semester
MODULES Questo insegnamento è un modulo di:
TEACHING MATERIALS AULAWEB

AIMS AND CONTENT

TEACHING METHODS

Students with certified LSD, disability or other special educational needs are encouraged to contact lecturers at the beginning of the course to agree on teaching methods that, while respecting the teaching objectives, take into account individual learning patterns and provide suitable compensatory tools

 

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

PULMONARY REHABILITATION

 

Definition, aims, areas

Patient assessment: subjective and objective assessment of respiratory patient, chest exam.

Evaluation of the main respiratory symptoms (cough, dyspnea, sputum)

Bronchial deobstruction:

Physiological bases (ventilation regional distribution, PEP, collateral ventilation, easing conditions for drainage)

Techniques addredded to small airways in the deep lung:

Inspiratory: EDIC, incentive spirometer, airstaking.

Expiratory:

-with PEP: Pep mask, Pep Bottle, parted lips, Flutter, CPAP and other devices

-without PEP: ACBT, ELTGOL, autogenic drainage, postural drainage, vibrations, percussions

Tecniques addressed to upper airways:

Inspiratory: DRR

Expiratory: Cough, FET

Deobstruction tools: high-frequency oscillation of the chest wall, mechanical cough...

Ergonomics of breath:

Work on the chest wall

Effort readaptation or retraining

Restrictive/obstructive pathologies

COPD patient: rehabilitative problems

Neuromuscular patient, assisted cough, mechanical ventilation

Surgical patient

Patient with spinal cord injury

Treatment of patient in intensive care: pathways about mechanical ventilation

Tracheostomezed patient

Educational role of physiotherapist

 

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

LESSONS

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Students with LSD or other regularly certified special educational needs will be able to agree with the professor on the written or oral mode of the examination, by contacting professors at least 10 days before the exam. They will also be able to take advantage of 30 % additional time 

 

 

FURTHER INFORMATION

When a student is a certified LSD, it is required to contact the Referring Teacher of the DISABILITY and DSA Commission for DINOGMI: Prof. N. Girtler (nicolagirtler@unige.it ) and evaluated the single case, he will send to the teachers the necessary directions both for  lessons development  and for modality of examination