MEDICAL-SURGICAL EMERGENCIES
cod. 08738

Academic year 2008/09
6° year of course - Second semester
Professor responsible for the course unit
FANELLI Guido
integrated course unit
3 credits
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Learning objectives

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The student must acquire information useful for: evaluating the medical-surgical emergency conditions that require the intervention of a specialist; evaluate clinical situations arising for the organs and systems in the areas of critical medicine, surgery, trauma, and cardiology. <br />
The student will achieve competence in recognizing main diseases that surface quod vitam that lead to early clinical manifestations. Diagnosis-treatment process, principles of differential diagnosis, fundamentals of treatment. <br />
The course will be mainly focused on concepts of Triage and early differential diagnosis, and will teach the international guidelines and recommendations on the subject through standard procedures. <br />

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

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Cardiocirculatory arrest: etiology, pathophysiology, epidemiology and treatment. <br />
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Acute myocardial infarction. <br />
Acute renal insufficiency. <br />
Circulation and respiratory tract ALS. <br />
Cardiopulmonary resuscitation. <br />
Principles of mechanical ventilation. <br />
Shock: etiology, pathophysiology, epidemiology and treatment <br />
Trauma patients. <br />
Coma and cerebral death, organ donation. <br />
Poisoning and intoxication <br />
Monitoring the critical patient <br />
Pulmonary diseases: ARDS, pulmonary embolism, edema, <br />
Cardiac arrhythmias: etiology, pathophysiology, epidemiology and treatment. <br />
Metabolism: uncompensated diabetes and other diseases <br />
Acid-Base balance <br />
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Pathophysiology and therapeutic diagnostic path of: <br />
Acute abdomen: peritonitis and occlusion <br />
Penetrating abdominal traumas: Hemoperitoneum. <br />
Rupturing aneurysms and limb ischemias <br />
Thoracic traumas and emergency diseases of the thorax and mediastinum <br />
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Full programme

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Bibliography

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M. Chiaranda: Guida Illustrata delle Emergenze- Piccin 2004 <br />
other references will be given if needed during the course <br />
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Teaching methods

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Teachers: <br />
SSD MED/41: Prof. Guido Fanelli (Coordinator), Prof. Andrea Casati <br />
SSD MED/09: Prof. Enrico Fiaccadori <br />
SSD MED/18: Prof. Luigi Bonati, Prof. Patrizia Rubini, Prof. Tiziano Tecchio, Prof. Enrico Foggi <br />
SSD MED/26: Prof. GianCamillo Manzoni <br />
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Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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