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EMERGENZE MEDICO CHIRURGICHE - channel 3

Teaching Staff

GAETANO BERTINO - Module Emergency Medicine - MED/09 - 2 CFU
GAETANO LA GRECA - Module CHIRURGIA D'URGENZA - MED/18 - 2 CFU
PAOLO MURABITO - Module Anesthesiology and Intensive Care - MED/41 - 2 CFU

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Learning Objectives

• Emergency Medicine
  

  They will be provided with the theoretical and practical tools to recognize their main pathological pictures of Emergency Medicine in the Critical Area and in non-hospital environments. Each of them will be covered pathophysiology, symptoms and the diagnostic-decision processes typical of the majoring in Nursing. The most common therapeutic protocols, both to deal with and manage autonomously will be presented and discussed, and those to be made on the recommendation / prescription and alongside with medical doctor.

• Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
  

  The course aims to train the student on:

  - most common anesthetic techniques

  - principles of acute and chronic pain therapy

  - management of the main cardiovascular, respiratory, neurological and environmental emergencies

  - principles of disaster medicine

  Furthermore, the course aims to teach the student the main resuscitation techniques (BLS, PBLS, ACLS, PHTLS)

Course Structure

• Emergency Medicine
  

  The lectures will be held in frontal mode with the help of slides in Power-Point format, illustration and commentary on the images of instrumental investigations, report on clinical cases.

  If the teaching is given in a mixed or remote mode, the necessary changes may be introduced with respect to what was previously stated, in order to respect the program envisaged and reported in the syllabus.

• Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
  

  Frontal lessons, Teaching online, Training and Simulation

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Detailed Course Content

• Emergency Medicine
  

  - Chest pain and dyspnea

  - Clinical and nosographic coma

  - The diabetic comas

  - The hypoglycemic

  - Encephalopathy and hepatic coma

  - Blood gas analysis

  - Alterations of acid-base and electrolyte

  - Syncope

  - Stroke

  - Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI)

  - Cardiogenic shock

  - Acute pulmonary edema

  - Hypertensive crisis

  - Heart failure

  - Cardiopulmonary arrest - BLSD

  - Pulmonary embolism

  - Bronchial asthma

  - Adult Respiratory Distress Syndrome (ARDS)

  - Over dose of opiates and hallucinogens

  - Crisis opiate withdrawal and hallucinogens

  - Shock (anaphylactic, cardiogenic, hypovolemic, septic)

• Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
  

  - Anesthesia and perioperative medicine

  - Cardiovascular emergencies: cardiac arrest, shock, arrythmias

  - Respiratory emergencies: foreign body obstruction, acute respiratory failure

  - Neurological emergencies

  - Environmental emergencies

  - Toxicological emergencies

  - Sepsis

  - Trauma

  - Brain death and organ transplantation

  - Routes of administration of the drugs in election and in emergency

  - Disaster medicine

  - Triage and maxi-emergencies

  - Pathophysiology, diagnosis and therapy of acute and chronic pain

  - Law 38/210

  - Practical activities in simulation and in the operating room (BLS, PBLS, Venous accesses, Ventilation with AMBU balloon, Airway management, ACLS, PHTLS)

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Textbook Information

• Emergency Medicine
  

  - Medicina di Emergenza e di Pronto Soccorso

  Autors : Mario G. Balzanelli – Antonio Gullo, CIC Edizioni Internazionali

  - Medicina d’Urgenza

  Autors: Anthony F.T. Brown – Michael D. Cadogan, Verducci Editore

  - Harrison – Principi di Medicina Interna, Il Manuale – Edizione Italiana – Mc Graw-Hill

  - Guida Illustrata delle Emergenze

  Autor: Maurizio Chiaranda, Piccin Editor

• Anesthesiology and Intensive Care
  

  Manuale di medicina di emergenza e di pronto soccorso

  Autori : Balzanelli , Gullo

  Editore: CIC Edizioni Internazionali

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