SCIENZE MEDICHE II
Module CHIRURGIA GENERALE

Academic Year 2023/2024 - Teacher: Antonio Giuseppe BIONDI

Expected Learning Outcomes

1) Introduce and guide the student to the knowledge of the pathologies of surgical interest to the physiopathology, to the symptomatology to the main diagnostics, to the surgical therapy.

2) Knowledge of the main perioperative problems of patients operated on for the main interventions.

3) Knowledge of patient preparation for interventions and perioperative monitoring.

Course Structure

1) Theoretical lectures with integration of methodological clinical reasoning based on the pathophysiology of diseases and clinical pictures,

2) Presentation of real, particular and common clinical cases with images of patients and iconography of diagnostic tests and intraoperative findings.

3) Films of surgical interventions to demonstrate the real findings of diagnostics and clinical cases

If the teaching is given in a mixed or remote mode, the necessary changes may be introduced with respect to what was previously stated, in order to respect the program envisaged and reported in the syllabus

Required Prerequisites

-Have passed Medical Sciences I

Attendance of Lessons

- Mandatory

Detailed Course Content

1) Hernias and hernias. Generaltà and treatment classification

2) Biliary pathology, calculosis, general jaundice and treatment classification

3) Surgical pathology of the esophagus and GERD reflux disease

4) Intestinal obstruction

5) Abdominal ostomies

6) Acute pancreatitis General, physiopathology.

7) Hypovolemic and septic shock - Generality, etiopathogenesis and treatment

8) Neoplastic pathology of the digestive system. Generalities and symptoms

9) Hemorrhagic syndromes of the digestive system (portal hypertension, esophageal varices, melaena, rectorhagia

10) Appendicitis, diverticulitis, cholecystitis and peritonitis

11) Diverticular disease of the colon

13) Polytrauma and abdomen trauma. Generalities, definitions of pre- and in-hospital management complications

14) Drains / SNGs / Catheters

Textbook Information

1) CHIRURGIA            di RENZO DIONIGI - Editore: Elsevier

Course Planning

 SubjectsText References
1Program topics covered in the recommended texts

Learning Assessment

Learning Assessment Procedures

Verification of learning can also be carried out electronically, should conditions require it

Examples of frequently asked questions and / or exercises

Cholelithiasis, Acute appendicitis, Acute pancreatitis, Jaundice, Drainage in surgery, Shock diagnosis, Diverticulitis, K colon rectum
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