SCIENZE MEDICHE II

10 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

MARINELLA ASTUTO - Module ANESTHESIOLOGY AND EMERGENCY TREATMENT - MED/41 - 5 CFU
ANTONIO GIUSEPPE BIONDI - Module CHIRURGIA GENERALE - MED/18 - 3 CFU
INES PAOLA MONTE - Module MALATTIE DELL'APPARATO CARDIOVASCOLARE - MED/11 - 2 CFU

Learning Objectives

ANESTHESIOLOGY AND EMERGENCY TREATMENT
Recognise clinical emergencies, provide first aid acts in order to guarantee survival and best avalaible assistance. Knowing how to act in maxi-emergencies. Know how to intervene. To study the anesthesia practiced in the dental field and the drugs used.

Detailed Course Content

ANESTHESIOLOGY AND EMERGENCY TREATMENT
- Anesthesia in dental practice: legislative references to national and European community
- Preoperative clinical evaluation, properative exam and informed consent
- Minimum requirements for dentistry ambients
- Definition of sedation, local anesthesia (main points)
- General anesthesia (main points)
- Sedation and drugs scale
- Phases of the anesthetic proceedings
- Drugs for sedation and general anesthesia
- Local anesthetics: classification, mechanism and duration of action and association with vasoconstrictors
- Guidelines for conscious sedation, inhalation and intravenous in a dental care structure
- Anesthesia practice in dentistry on adults and kids with disabilities
- Emergencies: anaphylaxis, fainting, acute respiratory failure, state of asthma, arrhytmias. Cardiac arrest.
- Monitoring of vital signs and basic life support.

Textbook Information

ANESTHESIOLOGY AND EMERGENCY TREATMENT
1) Manuale di medicina di emergenza e di pronto soccorso, Mario Giosuè Balzanelli - Antonino Gullo, CIC Edizioni Internazionali

2) Farmacologia in Odontoiatria, Matilde Amico Roxas et all, Edizioni Edra

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