Course: Physiology

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Course title Physiology
Course code KOS/P2FYZ
Organizational form of instruction Lecture
Level of course Bachelor
Year of study not specified
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 2
Language of instruction Czech
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Tošnerová Vlasta, doc. MUDr. CSc.
  • Blanař Vít, Mgr. Ph.D.
  • Chovancová Kristýna, Mgr.
Course content
Principles of primary urine production, dilution of urine concentration. Motor and sensitive functions. Vigilance, sleep. Thermoregulation. Basic components of nutrition, metabolic demands of an organism, starvation. Malnutrition and the immune system response. Dietology, enteral nutrition. Parenteral nutrition, a diabetic receiving artificial nutrition. Obesity, weight reduction, antioxidants. Nutrition in pregnancy.

Learning activities and teaching methods
Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing)
Learning outcomes
The aim is to get students acquainted with the physiological functions of tissues and organs and the mechanisms applied in their management and maintenance of homeostasis. Clinical nutrition focuses on metabolic changes during starvation, the share of nutrition in the development of civilization diseases, dietary recommendations and special procedures in the application of artificial nutrition.
Students know the basic functions and regulations of individual systems, including the necessary terminology. They are able to derive basic clinical actions resulting from disorders and causes of functional changes of the organism.
Prerequisites
unspecified
KOS/P1FYZ

Assessment methods and criteria
Oral examination, Written examination

Passing a written credit test. Passing a written exam.
Recommended literature
  • LANGMEIER, M. a kol. Základy lékařské fyziologie. 1. vyd. Praha: Grada, 2009.
  • MOUREK, J. Fyziologie. Učebnice pro studenty zdravotnických oborů. 2. doplněné vydání. Praha: Grada, 2012.
  • WARD, J.P.T., LINDEN, R.W.A. Základy fyziologie. Praha: Galén, 2010.


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