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EMERGENZE MEDICO CHIRURGICHE - channel 2

Teaching Staff

ROSARIO SCUDERI - Module MEDICINA D'URGENZA - MED/09 - 2 CFU
GUIDO NICOLA ZANGHI' - Module Surgical emergencies - MED/18 - 2 CFU
MARINELLA ASTUTO - Module Anesthesiology and Intensive Care - MED/41 - 2 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• Surgical emergencies
  

  provide the student with the elements for the diagnosis and the basis for the treatment of surgical emergencies

• Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
  

  The course aims to train the student on the possible anesthetic techniques, on the choice of anesthetic technique based on the patient's criticality and on the surgery to which he/she has to be subjected and on the principles of acute and chronic pain therapy. The course also aims to teach the student the analgesia techniques that can be used in clinical practice.

Course Structure

• Surgical emergencies
  

  lectures

• Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
  

  Frontal and/or telematic lessons and simulations. Should teaching be carried out in mixed mode or remotely, it may be necessary to introduce changes with respect to previous statements, in line with the programme planned and outlined in the syllabus. Learning assessment may also be carried out on line, should the conditions require it.

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Detailed Course Content

• Surgical emergencies
  

  acute abdomen
  bowel obstruction
  peritonitis
  shock
  laparocele
  hernia of the abdominal wall
  traumas of the abdomen

• Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
  
  • Anesthesiological risk, anesthesia and preoperative medicine
  • Triage and maxi-emergencies
  • The patient with cardio-respiratory arrest (BLS-D, PBLS)
  • Routes of drug delivery in emergency
  • The asphyxiated patient (from a foreign body)
  • Sepsis
  • Medical emergencies and resuscitative approach
  • Poisonings
  • Psychiatric emergencies
  • Environmental emergencies (burns, electrocutions, drowning)
  • Trauma
  • Brain death
  • Acute post-operative pain
  • Pain pathways
  • Pathophysiology of pain
  • Pain classification and pain assessment scales
  • Analgesia and sedation in emergency
  • Pharmacological and non-pharmacological therapy of pain
  • 38/2010 Law
  • Practical activity (BLS, PBLS, venous access, ventilation with ambu ball, acls)

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Textbook Information

• Surgical emergencies
  

  Dionigi: Chirurgia. Basi teoriche e chirurgia generale-Chirurgia specialistica

• Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
  

  Manuale di medicina di emergenza e di pronto soccorso

  Autori: Mario Giosuè Balzanelli, Antonino Gullo

  Editore: CIC Edizioni Internazionali

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