General paediatrics deals with the overall health (e.g., physical, mental and social health) and with the study of prevention of diseases during childhood, i.e., during the developmental age; with developmental age we mean the period between the prenatal age (i.e., the three phases preceding birth) and the end of the natural process of physical growth and cognitive maturation (which, according to the European standards ends up at age 18 years and by the USA standards ends up at about age 20-22 years.
Specifically, this teaching deals with:
(a) Physiology and development of the neonate (including topics dealing with neonatal pathology), the child and the adolescent;
(b) Prevention paediatrics, i.e., all medical acts and activities aimed to reduce mortality secondary to given diseases and morbidity (i.e., the frequency of given diseases) in children;
(c) Specialty paediatrics, i.e. all acute and chronic diseases affecting various organs during the developmental age: cardiology, respiratory medicine, gastroenterology, neurology, haematology, oncology, endocrinology, rheumatology, infectious diseases, and dermatology;
(d) Social paediatrics, i.e., health problems catering from the overall childhood community (prevention ans community medicine)
The course aims to provide the bases and fundaments of: (a) anatomy and physiology during development; (b) prevention and social medicine during development; (c) health education and understanding of diseases during childhood and adolescence and of the main acute and chronic conditions physically or mentally disabling children or interfering with their learning processes.
Neonatology
The healthy newborn
The newborn infant and newborn care
Low birth weight newborn
Post-term newborn
Birth defects
Birth trauma
Neonatal asphyxia
Neonatal jaundice
Neonatal seizures
Neonatal coagulopathies
Neonatal infections
Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome
Intensive neonatal care
Preventive Pediatrics
Pediatric primary care
Normal growth and development
Methods to evaluate growth. Bone age. Clinical evaluation of puberal maturation
Feeding: infant, toddler, child and adolescent.
Breast feeding
Milk formula
Weaning
Neonatal screening
Carrier state screening
Vaccination
Domestic accidents
General Pediatrics
Growth failure
Nutritional defects
Congenital cardiopathies
Infectious diseases
Exanthematous diseases
Viral diseases
Visceral Leishmaniasis
Allergy
Asthma
Respiratory infections
Cystic fibrosis
Celiac disease
Gastroenteritis
Nephrotic syndrome
Glomerulonephritis
Primary immunodeficiencies
Metabolism diseases
Galactosemia
Phenylketonuria
Endocrine diseases
Congenital hypothiroidism
Diabetes
Congenital adrenal hyperplasia
Puberal disorders
Hypopithuitarism
Fever of unknown origin
Mendelian diseases
Chromosomic diseases
Systemic inflammatory diesases
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis
Systemic Lupus Erithematosus
Henoch Schönlein purpura
Inflammatory bowel diseases
Kawasaki disease
Seizures and epilepsy
Atopic dermatitis
Pediatric Hematology
Normal hematology values trough childhood
Anemias
Thalassemias
Sickle Cell Disease
Iron deficiency anemia
G6PD
Splenomegalies
Lymph node disorders
Coagulopathies
Thrombocytopenias
Leukemias and lymphomas
Tumours in children
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Lissauer T, Clayden G. Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics, 5th ed. Edinburgh: Mosby, 2016