GENERAL SURGERY
cod. 14386

Academic year 2009/10
6° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Chirurgia generale (MED/18)
Field
Emergenze medico-chirurgiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
4 hours
of face-to-face activities
0.5 credits
hub: -
course unit
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Integrated course unit module: MEDICAL-SURGICAL EMERGENCIES

Learning objectives

Surgical pathology and diagnosis in urgency and emergency

Prerequisites

Obbligatory attendence

Course unit content

<br />Surgical emergencies. Physiopathology and diagnostic-therapeutic approach: acute abdomen: peritonitis; intestinal obstruction. Abdominal trauma. <br />Intestinal occlusion: clinical evaluation and surgical indications<br /><br />Digestive hemorrhages   <br />Penetrating abdominal trauma: Hemoperitoneum<br />Pancreatitis complications<br />Ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysms<br /><br />Upper and lower extremity ischemia.<br />Thoracic trauma and acute pathologies of thorax and mediastinum<br /> 

Full programme

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Bibliography

<br />L.Gallone: Semeiotica Chirurgica. UTET <br />L.Gallone: Patologia Chirurgica. UTET

Teaching methods

Oral lesson

Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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