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Faculty of Health Sciences

Dean’s Office: Building L, 2nd floor
E-mail address: wnoz@ubb.edu.pl

Main fields of study

  • Nursing
  • Emergency Medicine
  • Public Health


Departments and main research areas:

Department of Nursing

  • The impact of non-invasive ventilation in the postoperative period on the frequency of reintubation.
  • Assessment of postural therapy in patients with respiratory failure in impedance tomography.
  • Impedance tomography to evaluate effectiveness of lung recruitment manoeuvres.
  • Effectiveness of humidifying the respiratory mixture during high-flow oxygen ventilation.
  • Effect of high-flow oxygen therapy on the end expiratory volume of the lungs.
  • Assessment of postural drainage in patients monitored with electrical impedance tomography.
  • Practical usefulness of single-use bronchoscopy in intensive care.

Department of Emergency Medicine

  • Examination of theoretical knowledge and practical experience in the field of cardiopulmonary resuscitation procedures among students of ATH, employees of the police, fire departments and police departments in Bielsko-Biała.
  • Epidemiological and logistical studies of the management of Emergency Medical Teams in fulminant soft tissue infection.
  • International European research on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the functioning of emergency medical services in organisational and social aspects, as well as stress levels in particular groups of employees. Surveys among emergency medical services workers in Poland, Czechia, England, Finland, Germany, Norway and Slovakia.
  • Epidemiological studies and the establishment of a standard for Emergency Medical Teams in carbon monoxide poisoning.
  • Factors which impact the length of hospitalization and death rate of COVID-19 patients based on initial triage using capillary blood gas tests – a single centre study.

Department of Public Health

  • The contributors to health exposure due to environmental conditions.
  • Lifestyle and nutritional habits in the population of children and adolescents.
  • Stress in the work of nurses and paramedics and ways of dealing with the emergencies.
  • The scale of stress experienced in the emergencies by the students of humanities and technical studies.
  • The research concerning the clinical aspects of nursing care for elder patients with chronic diseases and affliction considered to be civilization disease related to the 21st

Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

  • Study of maternal-placental-foetal fatty acid metabolism.
  • Examination of supramolecular structures of selected trophoblast and foetal membrane molecules in the course of pregnancy pathology.
  • Examination of supramolecular structures of selected skin macromolecules in the course of burn treatment.
  • Examination of factors modulating contraction and relaxations of blood vessels using the Schuler tissue bath.
  • Investigation of tumour growth and recurrence inhibition mechanisms by ferroptosis induction.

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