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CLINICA PEDIATRICA

Teaching Staff

GIOVANNA RUSSO - Module Pediatrics - MED/38 - 5 CFU
MANUELA CLEMENTINA MARIA CARUSO - Module Pediatrics
TERESA MATTINA - Module GENETICA MEDICA - MED/38 - 2 CFU
VINCENZO DI BENEDETTO - Module CHIRURGIA PEDIATRICA - MED/38 - 1 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• Pediatrics
  

  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.

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Detailed Course Content

• Pediatrics
  

  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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Textbook Information

• Pediatrics
  

  Marcdante K, Kliegman Robert. M.. Nelson Essentials of Pediatrics. Elsevier 2018

  Lissauer T, Clayden G. Illustrated Textbook of Paediatrics, 5th ed. Edinburgh: Mosby, 2016

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