IGIENE ED IGIENE OSPEDALIERA E MALATTIE INFETTIVE - channel 2

6 CFU - 1° Semester

Teaching Staff

MARIA ANNA CONIGLIO - Module Hygiene - MED/42 - 2 CFU
ANTONELLA PAOLA AGODI - Module Hospital Hygiene - MED/42 - 2 CFU
BRUNO SANTI CACOPARDO - Module MALATTIE INFETTIVE - MED/17 - 2 CFU

Learning Objectives

Hygiene
- Knowledge of epidemiology and prevention techniques of the main infectious diseases
- Knowledge of epidemiology and prevention techniques of the main non infectious diseases
- Knowledge of principles and issues related to hospital hygiene
Hospital Hygiene
Aims of the course are to provide students with knowledge on the impact of Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI) at national, European and global level, on the concepts and tools for the HAI epidemiological surveillance according to the standards of European and/or national projects; to prepare the students for evaluating results of surveillance studies and of the main strategies for the prevention and control of HCAIs.
MALATTIE INFETTIVE
The aims are:
- Extended knowledge of the most important Infectious Diseases viral, bacterial, fungal, protozoan on a aetiopathogenic basis
- Organization of a diagnostic pathway on a clinical, instrumental, laboratory basis
- Knowledge of therapeutic aspects of Infectious diseases drugs with main reference to antibiotics management

Detailed Course Content

Hygiene
- Objectives of Hygiene
- Epidemiology of the infectious diseases
- Infectious diseases: primary, secondary and tertiary prevention
- Epidemiology and prevention of the main non infectious diseases
- Prevention of the main non infectious diseases
- Non infectious diseases: primary, secondary and tertiary prevention
Hospital Hygiene
Healthcare-Associated Infections (HAI): definitions, epidemiology, prevention and control. The European surveillance of HAI: definitions, activities, strategies and principles. Diseases-specific ECDC network. The epidemiological study of HAI: repeated prevalence and incidence studies, laboratory-based surveillance. The surveillance of Surgical Site Infections. The surveillance of HAI in Intensive Care Units: European and Italian projects. Compliance with guidelines for antimicrobial prophylaxis. Patient safety and clinical risk management. The Clean Care is Safer Care project of the WHO.
MALATTIE INFETTIVE
Basic elements of clinical microbiology and pathogenesis of infectious diseases (direct or immune mediated mechanisms), geographic and social impact, modes of transmission, clinical features, diagnostic and therapeutic pathways

Textbook Information

Hygiene
1. Barbuti S., Fara G.M., Giammanco G. – Igiene, medicina di comunità e sanità pubblica. Edizione EDISES 2014

2. Vitale F, Zagra M. Igiene, epidemiologia e organizzazione sanitaria orientate per problemi. Editore: Elsevier – Masson.
Hospital Hygiene
1. Barbuti S., Fara G.M., Giammanco G. – Igiene, medicina di comunità e sanità pubblica. Edizione EDISES 2014

2. Vitale F, Zagra M. Igiene, epidemiologia e organizzazione sanitaria orientate per problemi. Editore: Elsevier – Masson.
MALATTIE INFETTIVE
Manuale di Malattie Infettive; Autore: Borgia - Gaeta - Angarano - Concia - Contini - AAVV , Editore: Idelson - Gnocchi , Edizione: Marzo/2015 , Volume: Unico

Malattie infettive di Moroni - Antinori - Vullo Anno 2015 Editore: Masson

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