Medicine in Extreme Environments

Year
4
Academic year
2022-2023
Code
02039191
Subject Area
Elective Units
Language of Instruction
Portuguese
Mode of Delivery
Face-to-face
ECTS Credits
2.0
Type
Elective
Level
2nd Cycle Studies - Mestrado

Recommended Prerequisites

k. Recommended basic conditions:

A. Knowledge

It is important that the student should have basic documentation before frequenting this curriculum unit to learn effectively or in its own way. This basic knowledge include skills obtained from the curricular units of Anatomy, Physiology and Biophysics important for a better understanding of the proposed themes, since this curricular unit as focuses on fundamental aspects of the impact of different environments on the human body, in order to preserve health.

B. Skills

English language

C. Attitudes

The student must demonstrate intrinsic motivation, emptiness, autonomous study capacity and work capacity in equipments.

Teaching Methods

The general structure of teaching methodologies will be complementary between theoretical and practical classes. In theoretical classes, the teacher exposes the syllabus of the discipline, using the illustration of the physical concepts presented with concrete examples. The practical classes should be an extension of the theoretical classes, reinforcing the translational component of the course unit, being these classes taught by professors from the clinical courses in the areas of pneumology,endocrinology, neurology, otolaryngology, cardiology, rheumatology and nephrology. 

Learning Outcomes

Provide students with the tools to understand how alterações das condições physical condições ambientais may interfere with the human body.

Understand how many consequences and possibilities you approach in each extreme environment situation, allowing a more detailed approach to two physical phenomena applied to biological systems, such as or development of the critical sense necessary to analyze and interpret.

Approximate or some of a medicine supported by scientific and technical evidence, with modern conventions and of obvious clinical interest.

Discrete the uObjectives

Provide students with tools to understand how changes in physical environnderlying biophysical aspects to different environments, underwater, montanha and aerospace.

Identify the underlying physiological consequences to different environments, subaquatic, montanha and aerospace.

Characterize the mechanisms of homeostasis and adaptation to different environments, subaquatic, montanha and aerospace.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Aerospace Medicine

a) Biophysics in Space

b) Musculoskeletal System and Space

c) Cardio-Respiratory System and Space

d) Neurosensory System in Space

e) Cosmic radiation

 

2. Mountain Medicine

a) Biophysics of Altitude

b) Cardio-Respiratory System and Altitude

c) Endocrine System and Altitude

d) Renal System and Altitude

e) Central Nervous System and Altitude

 

3.Underwater and Diving Medicine

a) Depth Biophysics

b) Barotrauma (pulmonary, auditory, sinuses)

c) Decompression sickness

d) Consequences of changes in gas pressures

e) Drowning syndromes

Head Lecturer(s)

Ana Margarida Coelho Abrantes

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 40.0%
Exam: 60.0%

Bibliography

Fundamentals of Space Medicine. G Clément. Springer 2011

High Altitude Medicine and Physiology. JB West, RB Schoene, AM Luks & JS Milledge. CRC Press 2013

Diving and Subaquatic Medicine. C Edmonds, C Lowry, J Pennefather & R Walker. Arnold 2002