PHYSIOLOGICAL ADAPTATIONS TO ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE AND GRAVITATIONAL FORCE VARIATIONS
Academic year and teacher
If you can't find the course description that you're looking for in the above list,
please see the following instructions >>
- Versione italiana
- Academic year
- 2018/2019
- Teacher
- ERICA MENEGATTI
- Credits
- 3
- Didactic period
- Secondo Semestre
- SSD
- MED/22
Training objectives
- The main goal of the course consists in providing to the students:
-physiologic adaptation to microgravity (space mission), and to changes of the atmospheric pressure (in altitude and underwater human activities)
-methodology for remote cardiovascular monitoring in the conditions above. Prerequisites
- Anatomy and physiology of the cardiovascular, respiratory and muscular apparatus.
Course programme
- -Hydrostatic and atmospheric pressure. Transmural pressure concept in the human body.
-Adaptation to hypo-baric condition with related physiological mechanisms
-Adaptation to hyper-baric condition with related physiological mechanisms
-Unife research during Space Mission 42 with astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti
Physiologic adaptation to microgravity on the International Space Station and remote monitoring by the means of ultrasonic and plethysmographic devices developed in Ferrara University. Didactic methods
- Theoretic lessons. Technical and practical exercitation aimed to train students with devices capable to monitor the cardiovascular activity in hostile environments
Learning assessment procedures
- Multiple choice quizzes: 16 quiz (4 answers for each question, including 1 correct). 2 points for the correct answer, 0 points for a wrong answer or left blank. Time to deliver the proof: 1 hour
Reference texts
- Material provided by the teacher
