Course description - Learning outcomes

Course description: To familiarize students with non-invasive techniques used today for the diagnosis of vascular diseases as well as for evaluating the results after a vascular surgery procedures and understand the role of the non-invasive vascular laboratory in the Hospital. Furthermore, students will comprehend the basic principles of hemodynamics during preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative surveillance of vascular surgery patients.

Learning outcomes:
Diagnostic tools
  -  Ultrasound: physical properties, Doppler phenomenon, ultrasound imaging, frequency wave analysis
  -  Plythesmography
  -  Transcutaneous oxygen tension
  -  Nuclear magnetic resonance
Clinical applications in the diagnosis of
  -  Cerbrovascular disease
  -  Peripheral arterial disease (lower and upper limbs)
  -  Splanchnic vascular lesions
  -  Venous disease
Basics in fluid mechanics
  -  Flow in a circular tube, flow types, pulsitle flow in elastic tubes
  -  Hemodynamic basis of atherosclerosis 
  -  Hemodynamic behaviour of a atherosclerotic plaque
  -  Arterial aneurysms: Degenerative, post-stenotic, dissecting and false aneurysms
  -  Hemodynamics of arterial bypass grafts
  -  Grafts geometry, compliance hypothesis
Hemodynamics of venous diseases

Objectives: To familiarize students with non-invasive techniques used today for the diagnosis of vascular diseases as well as for evaluating the results after a vascular surgery procedures and understand the role of the non-invasive vascular laboratory in the Hospital. Furthermore, students will comprehend the basic principles of hemodynamics during preoperative, intraoperative and postoperative surveillance of vascular surgery patients.

Keywords: Plythesmography, Transcutaneous oxygen tension, Nuclear magnetic resonance, Arterial aneurysms,Hemodynamics of venous diseases.