BFKF041p Clinical Physiology - lecture

Faculty of Medicine
spring 2025
Extent and Intensity
1/0/0. 2 credit(s). Type of Completion: zk (examination).
In-person direct teaching
Teacher(s)
prof. MUDr. Petr Dobšák, CSc. (lecturer)
Guaranteed by
prof. MUDr. Petr Dobšák, CSc.
Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation – Departments of Non-medical Branches – Faculty of Medicine
Contact Person: Mgr. Leona Dunklerová
Supplier department: Department of Physiotherapy and Rehabilitation – Departments of Non-medical Branches – Faculty of Medicine
Prerequisites (in Czech)
BKPF031 Clin.Physiology general
Course Enrolment Limitations
The course is only offered to the students of the study fields the course is directly associated with.
fields of study / plans the course is directly associated with
Course objectives
The Clinical Physiology course is designed to enable students to patients physiological functions in health and disease and to assess the effective diagnosis. This program also educates the students to design appropriate exercise therapy in a range of human diseases.
Learning outcomes
Student knows after graduating course
After graduating the course the student knows the basics of clinical physiology evaluating physiological functions in sick patients and healthy people. The student will be able to propose appropriate rehabilitation therapies in a number of internal diseases.
Syllabus
  • Introduction to Clinical Physiology and its role in physiotherapy and exercise rehabilitation
  • Exercise testing in clinical medicine (characteristics, indications, criteria)
  • Methods of functional diagnostics in laboratory and external conditions
  • Clinical Physiology in diseases and health disorders
  • Cardiovascular diseases (introduction, principles and special methods of exercise testing)
  • Coronary artery disease, chronic heart failure, cardiomyopathy
  • Acute inflammatory diseases of the heart, inherited and acquired heart defects, functional disorders
  • Hypertension, atherosclerosis, chronic ischemic disease of lower limbs
  • Respiratory diseases, (introduction, principles and special methods of exercise testing)
  • Chronic obstructive bronchopulmonary disease, interstitial lung diseases
  • Gastrointestinal diseases (metabolic and endocrine)
  • Diabetes mellitus, obesity, metabolic syndrome
  • Renal diseases and oncologic diseases
  • Diseases and disorders of nervous and locomotory system
  • Immunity and physical activity
  • Repetitorium and information related to exam
Literature
  • PLACHETA, Zdeněk. Zátěžové vyšetření a pohybová léčba ve vnitřním lékařství. 1. vyd. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 2001, 179 s. ISBN 8021026146. info
  • PLACHETA, Zdeněk, Jarmila SIEGELOVÁ and Miloš ŠTEJFA. Zátěžová diagnostika v ambulantní a klinické praxi (Exercise testing in patients in clinic and out patients). první. Praha: Grada Publishing, 1999, 276 pp. ISBN 80-7169-217-9. info
  • ROKYTA, Richard. Fyziologie a patologická fyziologie : pro klinickou praxi. 1. vydání. Praha: Grada Publishing, 2015, xxxi, 680. ISBN 9788024748672. info
  • POVÝŠIL, Ctibor and Ivo ŠTEINER. Obecná patologie. 1. vyd. Praha: Galén, 2011, xiii, 290. ISBN 9788072627738. info
Teaching methods
lecture
Assessment methods
oral exam from theory
Language of instruction
Czech
Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
Information on the extent and intensity of the course: 15.
Listed among pre-requisites of other courses
The course is also listed under the following terms Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2002, Spring 2003, Spring 2004, Spring 2005, Spring 2006, Spring 2007, Spring 2008, Spring 2009, Spring 2010, Spring 2011, Spring 2012, Spring 2013, Spring 2014, Spring 2015, Spring 2016, Spring 2017, Spring 2018, spring 2019, spring 2020, spring 2021, spring 2022, spring 2023, spring 2024.
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