EMERGENCY SURGERY

General Module

Course Sheet

Course code:

IG31C2B

Academic Year of enrolment:

2017

Year of supply:

2019/2020

Type of Course:

Basic

Degree:

Course of 1st Cycle Degree in DENTAL HYGIENE

Disciplinary Sector:

General Surgery

Is part of:

FIRST AID

Location:

CHIETI

Credits:

Programme Year:

Professor and Collaborators:

D'AULERIO Alberto

Cycle:

First semester

Obligatory attendance:

Yes

Hours of classroom activity:

Individual study hours:

Prerequisites:

All the recommended and mandatory preparatory courses required by the Didactic Regulations are recommended

Objectives

Specific training objectives of Emergency Surgery are: understanding the aspects of anatomy surgery, physical and instrumental semeiotics and the general elements of surgical therapy as well as ethiopathogenesis, pathophysiology, symptomatology, diagnosis and therapy of relevant diseases surgical.
Make the general principles known for the execution of a medical examination and apply the methods and techniques for collecting the medical history, physical examination, instrumental tests to formulate a differential diagnosis. Identification, evaluation and management of surgical emergencies.
Make the student acquire the appropriate mentality to follow a procedural method suitable for dealing with the different clinical situations, providing the main notions for surgical therapies relating to the most frequently encountered pathologies. Finally, knowing how to create adequate communication with the patient, family members and colleagues.

Contents

The course aims to provide students with the knowledge of pathophysiology, diagnostics and therapy of the most common diseases found in clinical practice involved in surgical procedures.
Students will have to acquire a clinical preparation to recognize diseases of surgical interest. In particular, on the basis of the notions of pathophysiology of organs, systems and elements of clinical semiotics, students will be trained in a diagnostic methodology, also instrumental, aimed at recognizing specific diseases or functional alterations.
We will also provide notions of differential diagnostics and criteria for operative indication.
The program consists of two parts: a general and a special one. The first includes surgical topics not related to organ pathologies; the second part examines the main clinical syndromes related to organic pathologies of surgical interest.

Extended Syllabus

• The infections in surgery: limited, generalized
• Injury from traumatic agents.
• Wound healing process.
• Burns and burn disease.
• Reactions of the organism to trauma.
• Shock: hypovolemic, septic and cardiogenic.
• Hydroelectrolytic and acid-base alterations of surgical interest.
• Surgery: metabolic changes, renal, hepatic and respiratory functions; operative risk assessment.
• Tumors: generalities, classification, diffusion modalities, staging.
• Pathology of the esophagus and esophagus-gastric junction.
• Pathology of the stomach and duodenum.
• Pathology of the small and fat intestine.
• Proctological pathology.

Recommended Bibliography

Davide F. D’Amico:

"GENERAL SURGERY - Clinical Pathophysiology and Therapy"

Ed. Piccin, Padua, 2006

Teaching Methods

The teaching methods followed by the teachers consist of traditional lessons and discussion of clinical cases. The lessons will take place through Power Point presentations and videos. During the lessons the specific problems of the pathology object of the frontal lesson will be illustrated and discussed.

Evaluation methods

Verification of learning:

The assessment of the learning will be carried out by means of an exam consisting of an oral test on the topics set out in the program in order to verify whether the student has achieved the set objectives, assessing his / her ability to exhibit and the completeness of the discussion of the topics covered by the interview.

Contacts/More Information

Attendance at the lessons respects the calendar scheduled at the beginning of the academic year, with attendance obligation for not less than 70% of the lessons, attendance signatures will be issued at the end of the course. The methods of recovery for students who have at least 50% of attendances in class, are agreed from time to time with the teacher.
The reception office for the students is at the "Centro Stomizzati di Chieti" ex P.O. "SS. Annunziata" Chieti center, by appointment by phone at (0871.357601) or by email: alberto.daulerio@unich.it

Università degli Studi
"G. d'Annunzio"

Chieti - Pescara

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