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Course code: VVSS00361f13Semester: 2013/2014 summer
Name: Physiological bases of nephrology
Major: Veterinary Medicine
Study Type: one cycle
Course type: optional
Study Semester: 6
ECTS points: 2
Hours (Lectures / Tutorials / Other): 15 / 15 / 0
Lecturer: Prof. dr hab. Krzysztof Romański
Language of instruction: Polish / English
Learning outcomes: Knowledge: - Student describes, explains and interpretes the rules and mechanisms of animal health, of disease development and therapy - from the cellular level, through the organ, animal, animal herd untill the whole animal population Practical skills: -exhibits the ability of listening and answering with the language that is comprehensible and adequate to situation
Competences: Student exhibits the fashion of continual broadening of knowledge and developing skills
Prerequisites: Animal Anatomy, Biochemistry, Biophysics, Animal Histology and Embryology, Animal Physiology
Course content: Detailed information concerning water-electrolyte balance oriented towards the conditions in which the specific disturbances can occur, the bases of professional non-invasive procedures, the functional bases of these disturbances; the practical principles of acid-base balance allowing its evaluation and compensation of its disturbances, functional tests in the discussed scope.
Recommended literature: 1. Ed.: M. Schaer. Clinical Medicine of the Dog and Cat. Manson Publishing 2010. 2. O. Siggaard-Andersen. The Acid-Base Status of the Blood. Munksgaard, Copenhagen 1974. 3. J. H. Green. Basic Clinical Physiology. Oxford Medical Publications, 2002. 4. R. W. Hill, G. A. Wyse, M. Anderson. Animal Physiology. Sinauer Associates, Inc., Sunderland 2004. 5. Eds: S. J. Ettinger, E. C. Feldman. Textbook of Veterinary Internal Medicine. W. B. Saunders Co., Philadelphia 2000.
Assessment methods: Oral test
Comment: This subject will be held for group of at least 18 students