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Course code: VVSS00159f12Semester: 2012/2013 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
Learning outcomes: Student knows more details about the structure-function relationships regarding more or less common functions important for nephrology understanding thus tightly linked with kidneys, first of all, but also with other organs, especially in the scope of water-electrolyte balance ans acid-base equilibrium. Furthermore, student knows several situations at the border of physiology and pathology in this area and is conscious of the circumstances in which the functional barriers and normal values can be crossed. He is aware of the local and general adaptation mechanisms and when and how they can be weakened leading to the development of pathological process. The elective supplements the knowledge about the general problems either in human or in veterinary medicine linked with body fluid management and acid base balance. Student knows the basic information about the causes of several disturbances in this topic.
Competences: Student is prepared to be able to analyse, imagine, and conclude the problems related to the elective subjects, and thus is well prepared for the learning of relevent topics within preclinical and clinical disciplines, especially as pathophysiology, clinical diagnostics or internal medicine. Student, possessing the extended knowledge from these topics, can more easily comprehend the gradual development of the given pathological situation and understand its course. This knowledge will be useful for making the diagnosis during the next study when he will know more about the diseases, and later, after graduation, i.e. in the veterinary clinic. He will know not only the common animal diseases, but also less frequent or even unknown in the veterinary medicine clinical situations which can always occur in the veterinary practice. Thus, the student will be better prepared for his job.
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
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