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EMERGENZE MEDICO CHIRURGICHE

Teaching Staff

GAETANO BERTINO - Module Emergency Medicine - MED/09 - 2 CFU
GUIDO BASILE - Module Emergency Surgery - MED/18 - 2 CFU
MARINELLA ASTUTO - Module Anesthesiology and Intensive Care - MED/41 - 2 CFU

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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)

• Emergency Surgery
  

  Abdominal trauma - Intestinal obstruction . Acute peritonitis - Acute appendicitis - Acute cholecystitis - Acute pancreatitis - Diverticular disease - Gastrointestinal bleeding

• 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

• 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

• Emergency Surgery
  

  1) Dionigi - Chirurgia - Edizioni Elsevier

  2) D'Amico - Chirurgia Generale - Edizioni Piccin

  3) Staudacher - Chirurgia d'Urgenza - Edizioni Masson

• 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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