ANESTHESIA AND INTENSIVE CARE
cod. PC05006

Academic year 2021/22
2° year of course - First semester
Professor
- Elena Giovanna BIGNAMI
Academic discipline
Anestesiologia (MED/41)
Field
Primo soccorso
Type of training activity
Basic
10 hours
of face-to-face activities
1 credits
hub: PIACENZA
course unit
in ITALIAN

Integrated course unit module: SURGERY CLINIC

Learning objectives

- learn to move in the operating block and in the operating room - approach the evaluation of patients to be subjected to general and loco-regional anesthesia - know how to distinguish the pharmacological principles of the different anesthesiological conducts - evaluate the monitoring of vital parameters in the operating room for different patients and different types of "anesthesia" - learn to recognize the different periods and post-operative paths - assessment of the adverse event and the emergency-emergency condition in the operating room - evaluation of the critical patient in intensive care
• Triage and medical resource management • The Acid-Base balance
• Cardiac arrhythmias: etiology. pathophysiology, epidemiology and treatment
• Acute myocardial infarction
• Arterial hypertension
• Cerebrovascular
accidents
•Insufficiency. acute renal • Metabolism: decompensated diabetes and other pathologies
• Critical patient monitoring Fluid therapy and vasoactive drugs
• Pathophysiology and therapeutic diagnostic path • Principles of general and locoregional anesthesia
• Monitoring of vital functions
• Pathophysiology of pain • Pain therapy

Prerequisites

NA

Course unit content

During the course the main anesthesiological techniques will be illustrated: general, loco-regional anaesthesia, and post-operative acute analgesia. The importance of the pre-operative anesthesiological evaluation of the different patients, of the anesthetic drugs, of the clinical monitoring of the operative period will be explained. In addition, the specialist anesthesia for each surgery will be illustrated. The main problems in the operating room, and the related treatments, will be addressed, with notes on the need for hospitalization in intensive care. Finally, the problems of the critical patient in intensive care, monitoring, diagnoses, treatments and prognosis will be mentioned

Full programme

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Bibliography

- E.Romano, Anaesthesia- Principles and techniques, UTET - Manual of clinical anesthesia procedures of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Antonio Delfino Publisher

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