SCIENZE MEDICHE, CHIRURGICHE E TECNOLOGIE AVANZATE G.F. INGRASSIASpeech and Language TherapyAcademic Year 2022/2023
9796949 - CLINICA DELLA COMUNICAZIONE
Module PEDIATRIA GENERALE E SPECIALISTICA
Teacher: Andrea DI CATALDO
Expected Learning Outcomes
Learning physiology, pathology, clinical and laboratory approach, therapy related to growing individuals, specific issues of preventive pediatrics, pediatric diseases from neonatal age through adolescence
Course Structure
Academic lessons; practice according to specific calendar scheduled by the Coordinator of the Course.
Required Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of human anatomy and physiology
Attendance of Lessons
Attendance, compulsory in the terms indicated by the teaching regulations, is in any case strongly recommended as the approach to the child is one of the fundamental requirements for the speech therapist
Detailed Course Content
Neonatology
The healthy newborn
The newborn infant and newborn care
Low birth weight newborn
Neonatal asphyxia
Neonatal jaundice
Neonatal seizures
Neonatal infections
Neonatal respiratory distress syndrome
Methods to evaluate growth. Bone age
Breast feeding
Milk formula
Neonatal screening
Vaccination
Growth failure
Nutritional defects
Infectious diseases
Exanthematous diseases
Viral diseases
Visceral Leishmaniasis
Asthma
Respiratory infections
Cystic fibrosis
Celiac disease
Gastroenteritis
Primary immunodeficiencies
Phenylketonuria
Endocrine diseases
Congenital hypothiroidism
Diabetes
Fever of unknown origin
Mendelian diseases
Chromosomic diseases
Normal hematology values trough childhood
Anemias
Thalassemias
Sickle Cell Disease
Iron deficiency anemia
Splenomegalies
Thrombocytopenias
Leukemias and lymphomas
Tumours in children
Textbook Information
- Bartolozzi – Pediatria. Principi e pratica clinica – Casa Editrice Masson
- Zuccotti – Elementi essenziali di Pediatria per Corsi di Laurea triennali
Course Planning
| Subjects | Text References |
1 | Il neonato ed il lattante | Zuccotti pag. 43-69 |
2 | Malattie esantematiche | Zuccotti pag. 175-194 |
3 | Pertosse | Bartolozzi pag 721-726 |
4 | Meningite | Zuccotti pag. 146-154 |
5 | Leishmaniosi | Bartolozzi pag 942-945 |
6 | Rickettsiosi | Bartolozzi pag 789-791 |
7 | Piastrinopenia | Bartolozzi pag 1275-1278 |
8 | Leucemia e tumori | Bartolozzi pag 1295-1330 |
Learning Assessment
Learning Assessment Procedures
Oral exam
Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises
Normally the student presents two arguments among the ones object of the lessons. The student chooses the first, the professor the second
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