The course
aims to provide students with a comprehensive view of the field of respiratory
medicine in all its breadth and complexity. For this reason, internships at the
Pneumology Clinic of Charles University’s First Faculty of Medicine and at TN’s
Department of Thoracic Surgery were included in the syllabus. As pneumology and
pneumosurgery are closely related disciplines that follow each other, connecting
them in one course is logical and is an effort to approach the teaching of
clinical disciplines in a modern way. This connection shows pneumology as an
internal field with an overlap into surgical and morphological fields.
The main focus
of the weekly seminars and practical internships is becoming acquainted with
individual diseases of respiratory tract organs as well as their diagnosis,
differential diagnosis and treatment. Internships at the Pneumology Clinic are
complemented by full-day lessons at the Department of Thoracic Surgery, which introduce
surgical treatment of diseases of respiratory tract organs through interactive
video presentations. Through practical exercises, students further
deepen their skills in the clinical examination of patients.
Sylabus:
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Malignant tumors of the lungs, pleura, mediastinum. Diagnostic procedures, TNM tumor staging, treatment options, surgical treatment, chemotherapy, radiotherapy, biological treatment, palliative treatment.
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Pneumonia. Pneumonia distribution - community, nosocomial, pneumonia of immunocompromised persons. Etiology of diseases, diagnostics, ambulatory and hospital treatment, supportive treatment, prevention.
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Tuberculosis and mycobacteriosis. Epidemiology, prevalence. Risk factors of disease, division of TB. Primary and post-primary TB. Diagnostic methods. Treatment - antituberculotics, treatment categories. Side effects of treatment. Chemoprophylaxis. TB resistant forms.
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Thoracic empyema. Differential diagnostics. Healing approach.
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Idiopathic interstitial pneumonia, exogenous allergic alveolitis, pneumoconiosis. Pollectic lung damage. Basic diagnostic features and criteria. Examination program. Therapies
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Pulmonary involvement in vasculitides and systemic connective tissue diseases. Diagnosis, therapy
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Sarcoidosis and other pulmonary granulomatosis. Diagnostic algorithm. Split into stages. Therapeutic approach
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Bronchial asthma. Etiopathogenesis of diseases, atopy, allergy. Asthma distribution, stage of the disease. Therapeutic approach
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Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease. Occurrence, diagnosis, treatment, prevention, prognosis. Risk factors for the disease.
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Intensive Care in Pneumology
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Thoracic Surgery. Surgery in thoracic surgery
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Nicotine addiction, lung diseases associated with smoking.
Literature:
Chapman, S.; Robinson, G.; Stradling, J.; West, S.; Wrightson, J.: Oxford Handbook of Respiratory Medicine, Oxford University Press, 3rd edition, 2014
Kasper, D.L.; Fauci, A.S.; Hauser, S.L.; Longo, D.L.; Jameson, J.L.; Loscalzo, J.: Harrisons Principles of Internal Medicine: Vol 1&2, 19th edition, McGraw-Hill Education - Europe, 2015
Spiro, S.G.; Silvestri, G.A.; Agusti, A.: Clinical Respiratory Medicine, 4rd edition, Elsevier, 2012
Dakin, J.; Kourteli, E.; Winter, R. - Making sense of lung function tests, Arnold, London, 2003 (or 2017)