MEDICAL-SURGICAL EMERGENCIES
cod. 08738

Academic year 2007/08
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

<br />The student must achieve the ability to evaluate clinical emergency requiring the intervention of the specialist in the critical medecine, surgery, trauma, and cardiologic areas. <br />The student will achieve competence in recognizing main diseases with urgency implications for the prognosis quod vitam, describing the process for a correct diagnosis and basic treatment. <br />The course will be mainly focused on concepts of Triage and early differential diagnosis, and will be based on international guidelines and reccommendations proper of each specific area.

Prerequisites

N.A.

Course unit content

<br /><br />Cardiocirculatory arrest: etiology, pathophysiology, epidemiology and treatment.<br /><br /><br />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 /><br />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 /> 

Full programme

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Bibliography

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

Teaching methods

<br />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 /> <br /><br />The teaching methodology will be based on frontal lessons as wll as on the analysis of clinical scerarios with practical simulation of the diagnostic process and basis of treatment. The final evaluation will be based on an oral examination with the analysis of a clinical scenario together with one of the teachers. <br /> 

Assessment methods and criteria

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Other information

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