To show to the student the main activies of Orthopaedic and Traumatologic Unit.
The student should know main methods and machines used in diagnostic imaging; to understande the diagnostic process of main diseases; to learn how to prepare patients before radiodiagnostic procedures, namely when contrast administration is required
Legal Medicine
Legal medicine is aimed to the study and application of scientific and medical knowledge to legal problems. It is directed to the acquisition of information significant to the exercise of medical profession in terms of legal and ethical issues, with respect to criminal, civil and social insurance.
The student, supervised from a tutor, will have access to:
- The ward of orthopedic and traumatological patients;
- The casting room, where the main types of immobilization and the management of small traumas will be shown;
- The out-patients, where the main orthopedic and traumatological diseases are treated and the patients already undergone surgical treatment are followed-up
Legal Medicine
Introduction to Penal Law (crime, classifications, objective and subjective elements). Civil capacity (legal capacity and capacity to act, interdiction, disqualification, natural incapacity). Material causation and law regulations. Chain of material causation. Imputability (under age, full or partial infirmity of the mind, intoxications, deaf-mutism). Diagnosis of death. Report of the causes of death. Regulations of mortuary Police. Time of death and thanatological changes of corpse. Medical Deontology. Informed consent. Notes on pathology: injuries from blunt instruments; stab injuries; injuries from fire-arm; electrical injuries; asphyxia (suffocation, hanging, strangulation, constriction, drowning). Forensic Toxicology: diagnosis of poisoning; CO poisoning; alcoholism and drug addiction; legislation on drugs. Degrees of murder. Crimes of beating and personal injury. Crime of sexual violence. Abortion. The professional medical liability. Medical Report to Public Prosecutor’s Office. Professional secrecy. Medical record; medical certification. Legal advice to the Office of Public Prosecutions. Compulsory medical treatments. Social system of assistance and welfare services.
Sessa-Villani. Ortopedia e Traumatologia. Monduzzi Editore.
1) Compendio di Radiologia” di Roberto Passariello e Giovanni Simonetti Editore Idelson – Gnocchi.
2) Fernando Mazzuccato – Anatomia Radiologica Tecniche e Metodologie in Radiodiagnostica (Piccin)
Legal Medicine