Informações principais
Sobre o conteúdo
How do we breathe? What is the purpose of our lungs? What is the link between oxygen and life ? These questions open a vast field of discovery to help us understand respiration. This course is for anyone who wants to understand human respiratory physiology, the operation of respiration and the lungs.
Immersed in the heart of the university and hospital practice, you’ll learn from professors, health professionals, interns and medical students. Together we’ll discuss topics that are close to the world surrounding us: respiration during exercise, at high altitude, the role of air pollutants, asthma, and other important respiratory issues.
During the course experts will discuss specific and practical topics such as how to comprehend oxygenation of a patient, why and when to administer oxygen, and what hyperventilation means.
This course will also discuss in depth human anatomy, physical volumes and pressures of gasses, blood, oxygen, CO₂, lungs, tissues, smoking and chronic bronchitis.
Pré-requisito
This course is taught in English and French. The videos are subtitled in English, and all other course materials and course discussions are also in English.
Programa de estudos
- Explain and describe the principles of oxygenation, ventilation, transport and consumption of oxygen and gas diffusion between air and blood
- How to explain and describe respiration through diagrams and calculations using fundamental formulas
- Evaluate the quantity and quality of the oxygenation of a patient
- Distinguish normal respiratory situations from pathological ones
Instrutores
Franck Verschuren
Chargé de Cours
Université catholique de Louvain
Criador do conteúdo
A Université catholique de Louvain ou UCLouvain é uma universidade belga francófona, com várias sedes em seis cidades belgas, que reúne, desde a adoção do seu novo nome, a UCL e a Université Saint-Louis - Bruxelles.
Na sequência da cisão da Universidade Católica de Lovaina em duas entidades juridicamente independentes (1968), a maior parte da universidade francófona está localizada em Louvain-la-Neuve (Brabante Valão) desde 1972, e em Woluwe-Saint-Lambert para as faculdades de medicina, farmácia, odontologia e ciências biomédicas. A universidade de língua neerlandesa permanece em Lovaina, sob o nome de Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (KU Leuven). É uma das principais universidades da Bélgica e é regularmente citada como uma das 150 melhores universidades do mundo.
Plataforma
EdX est une plateforme d'apprentissage en ligne (dite FLOT ou MOOC). Elle héberge et met gratuitement à disposition des cours en ligne de niveau universitaire à travers le monde entier. Elle mène également des recherches sur l'apprentissage en ligne et la façon dont les utilisateurs utilisent celle-ci. Elle est à but non lucratif et la plateforme utilise un logiciel open source.
EdX a été fondée par le Massachusetts Institute of Technology et par l'université Harvard en mai 2012. En 2014, environ 50 écoles, associations et organisations internationales offrent ou projettent d'offrir des cours sur EdX. En juillet 2014, elle avait plus de 2,5 millions d'utilisateurs suivant plus de 200 cours en ligne.
Les deux universités américaines qui financent la plateforme ont investi 60 millions USD dans son développement. La plateforme France Université Numérique utilise la technologie openedX, supportée par Google.
