GENERAL AND SPECIALISED PEDIATRICS
cod. 1000139

Academic year 2018/19
5° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Pediatria generale e specialistica (MED/38)
Field
Discipline mediche di rilevanza odontoiatrica
Type of training activity
Characterising
7 hours
of face-to-face activities
1 credits
hub: PARMA
course unit
in ITALIAN

Integrated course unit module: PAEDIATRIC ODONTOIATRICS

Learning objectives

The student is expected to acquire and understand the means to be able to formulate the diagnosis and define treatment for the most common children’s diseases with odontostomatological features, offering a broad spectrum of specialist healthcare, appropriate and efficacious in the dental care of children, adolescents and patients with associated diseases. Particular emphasis will be placed on prevention techniques, clinical assessment and treatment of traumas.

Prerequisites

Students must have passed all the examinations of the previous years

Course unit content

The normal and pre-term newborn, clinical examination and physiological phenomena.
-Neonatal diseases: infections. respiratory diseases (RDS
- Nutrition: breast-feeding, weaning, children
- Allergic diseases
-Semeiotics pediatric pulmonary
-Pneumonia and bronchiolitis
-Asthma
-Cystic Fibrosis
-PUpper respiratory tract diseases
-Diagnosis and treatment of diabetes mellitus at onset in childhood
-Pathophysiology and clinical of major congenital heart disease
-Cardiomyopathies
-Main chromosome abnormalities
-Gastronteritis acute, malabsorption, inflammatoriy bowel disease, - Gastroesophageal reflux -
-Glomerulonephritis and nephrosis
-Rheumatic Disease
-Leukemia and major childhood cancers-Urinary Tract Infections
-Growth physiology and pathology (growth delay: primary and secondary growth hormone deficiency)
-Epilepsy and convulsions
-The patient with neurological damage
-Endocrine diseases
-Main systemic diseases that affect the oral cavity and dentition / tooth
-Use of pain medication/antibiotics in children.

Full programme

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Bibliography

Maurizio Vanelli ARGOMENTI DI PEDIATRIA
ISBN978-88-7847-454-3
Collana Saperi, MUP Editore
Castello M, Duse
M. Manuale di Pediatria. Piccin editore.
GV Zuccotti, M. Giovannini Manuale di Pediatria,
La Pratica Clinica, Società Editrice Esculapio.
N Principi, A Rubino, A Vierucci: Pediatria generale e Specialistica, Casa
Editrice Ambrosiana.

Teaching methods

Lectures, interactive lessons and discussion of clinical cases with use of slides.

Assessment methods and criteria

Level of knowledge shall be demonstrated by oral examination, score 0-
30. Score is immediately communicated. Assiduity in attending lessons

Other information

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