(HL) HEALTH CARE SCIENCES & SERVICES

An aging population challenges the health and welfare sector to rethink how good quality care can be provided in a sustainable way. The interdisciplinary research group ALOVE is concerned with regional, national and international issues related to ageing, care, welfare and innovation.

The effect of diving (SCUBA and breath hold) on cardiovascular, cerebrovascular, and respiratory function using noninvasive (echocardiography, continuous blood pressure measurements, TCD, MRI, respiratory mechanics, etc) and invasive (MSNA, arterial and central venous catheterization, internal jugular vein catheterization, etc) methods. The clinical interest is related to following diseases: chronic heart failure, COPD, stroke, TIA, tetraplegia, etc.