LF:VLVL9X66c occupational medicine - Course Information
VLVL9X66c internal medicine part 6
Faculty of MedicineSpring 2002
- Extent and Intensity
- 0/3/0. 1 credit(s). Type of Completion: k (colloquium).
- Teacher(s)
- MUDr. Eva Benešová (seminar tutor)
prof. MUDr. Petr Brhel, CSc. (seminar tutor)
MUDr. Alena Říhová (seminar tutor) - Guaranteed by
- prof. MUDr. Petr Brhel, CSc.
Department of Occupational Medicine – Institutions shared with St. Anne's Faculty Hospital – Faculty of Medicine - 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
- General Medicine (programme LF, M-VL)
- Syllabus
- Occupational diseases. Diagnoses, occupational and environmental history. A physical examination, laboratory tests, primary prevention, secondary prevention, tertiary prevention. Occupational pulmonary diseases. Occupational asthma (OA): etiological causes. Diagnostic procedure for OA.Treatment. Pulmonary diseases due to toxic inhalants. Metal fume fever. Chemical pneumonitis (acute toxic lung injury). Pneumoconioses. Silicosis, exposure, pathology,clinical spectrum, complications, differential diagnoses, treatment. Coal workerś pneumoconiosis. Asbestos-related pulmonary disease, exposure, asbestosis, benign pleural processes, mesothelioma and bronchogenic carcinoma.Carcinoma of the respiratory tract.Occupational skin disorders. Occupational dermatitis, occupational cutaneous infections, chloracne, cutaneous malignancy, additional occupational dermatoses. Health effects of ionizing radiation, acute radiation syndromes, protection. Occupational hearing loss - noise induced hearing loss, audiometry, differential diagnosis, hearing protection. Disorders due to vibration. Whole body vibration, segmental vibration, hand arm vibration syndrome, vibration induced white finger, neuropathy of the median and ulnar nerves, changes in the musculo-skeletal system. Diagnosis, prevention, treatment. Cumulative trauma disorders. Carpal tunnel syndrome, ulnar neuropathy, tarsal tunnel syndrom, lateral epicondylitis, chronic tendinitis and tenosynovitis of the upper extremity, rotator cuff syndrome, osteoarthrosis, meniscal lesions. Chemical asphyxiants. Carbon monoxide - uses, metabolism, acute and chronic poisoning, treatment. Hydrogen cyanide - metabolism, acute and chronic poisoning, treatment. Hydrogen sulphide - metabolism, acute,chronic poisoning, treatment. Insectidies. Organophosphates - metabolism, acute,chronic poisoning, biological monitoring, treatment. Herbicides. Paraquat, diquat. Organic solvents. Aromatic hydrocarbons - benzene,toluene, xylene. Chlorinated hydrocarbons, carbon tetrachloride, trichloroethylene.
- Literature
- BRHEL, Petr and Karel PICKA. Úvod do průmyslové toxikologie (Industrial Toxicology). 1. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1998, 58 pp. ISBN 80-210-1738-4. info
- BRHEL, Petr and Viera VALKOVÁ. Occupational Disorders. (An Overview for Foreign Students; in English) (Ocupational Disorders). 1. vydání. Brno: Masarykova Universita, 1997, 40 pp. ISBN 80-210-1559-4. info
- BRHEL, Petr. Pracovní lékařství (Occupational Medicine). 1. vydání. Brno: Masarykova univerzita, 1996, 101 pp. ISBN 80-210-1468-7. info
- Language of instruction
- Czech
- Further comments (probably available only in Czech)
- The course is taught each semester.
The course is taught: in blocks.
- Enrolment Statistics (Spring 2002, recent)
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