UCL - respiratory sector : from diagnosis to treatment.

[MEDI2123]

[60h] 5 credits

This course is taught in the 1st semester.

Teacher(s): Jean-Luc Balligand, Emmanuel Coche, Philippe Collard, Luc Delaunois(coord.), Philippe Eucher, Patrick Lebecque, Giuseppe Liistro, Eric Marchand, Philippe Noirhomme, Jacques Rahier, Yves Sibille, Jean-Paul Trigaux, Jean-Paul Trigaux, Olivier Vandenplas, Birgit Weynand

Language: French

Level: Second

Aims
Main themes
Content and teaching methods
Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Aims

The student must acquire during this formation the knowledge necessary to the comprehension of the functioning of the normal respiratory system and the disturbances related to the diseases. From this knowledge, he will have to learn the various subjective complaints felt by the patients and objectives symptoms observed by the clinician in order to determine of it the diagnosis, severity, the forecast and to fix the treatment and the follow-up of the evolution. Its knowledge will have to relate to all the frequent respiratory diseases in order to diagnose them and treat them, but also how suspect the more uncommon diseases. All the accessible diagnostic techniques will have to be known, in order to fix the use and to include/understand their outcomes of it. At the end of his formation, the student will have to be able, starting from respiratory complaints, to guide the diagnosis, to advise and relieve the patient.

Main themes

General pathophysiology of the respiratory system. Knowledge of its great pathological syndromes. Semiology of the interrogation and the clinical exam, and the respiratory specific, radiologic, biologic, anatomopathologic and functional examinations. Description then of the great groups of respiratory diseases and the manner of approaching them starting from the previuosly described data . Convenient demonstrations by clinical courtships, convenient seminars and demonstrations.

Content and teaching methods

Pulmonary Anatomopathology. Thoracic semiology, specific techniques of investigation, radiologic syndromes, pharmacology of medications with respiratory aiming. Infectious pathology: mycobacterioses, bacterial and viral diseases, diseases of the immunocompromised. Bronchectasies, obstructive bronchopneumonopathy, asthma, acute and chronic severe respiratory failure, apnea, hypoventilation.Pulmonary vascular diseases, infiltrative pathology. Malignant and benign thoracic neoplasms. Thoracic surgery of cancers and noncancerous diseases. Occupational and iatrogenic diseases.pleural pathologies. Pulmonary diseases in children..

Other information (prerequisite, evaluation (assessment methods), course materials recommended readings, ...)

Pre-necessary: knowledge of physiology, microbiology, anatomo-pathology and radiology acquired during the baccalaureats.Mode of evaluation: examinations by simple multiple choice for knowledge and "rich " MC for the integration of the matter.

The support: magistral and clinical lectures, seminars, practical works. Audio-visual support at the courtships and on Icampus. Multidisciplinary team of teachers: anatomopathologists, lung specialists, radiologists, pharmacologist, pneumopediatrician, thoracic surgeon.