GENERAL AND SPECIALIST PEDIATRICS
cod. 08733

Academic year 2019/20
2° year of course - First semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Pediatria generale e specialistica (MED/38)
Field
Primo soccorso
Type of training activity
Basic
10 hours
of face-to-face activities
1 credits
hub: -
course unit
in ITALIAN

Integrated course unit module: PRE-PERINATAL MEDICINE AND NEONATOLOGY

Learning objectives

The training course will provide the basic, theoretical and practical concepts of the discipline. The student will learn about physiology, nursing care for the main pathologies in pediatric age and their treatment. The principles of neonatal resuscitation will also be discussed.

Prerequisites

no

Course unit content

Pre-perinatal medicine and neonatology
The physiological newborn
the newborn with signs and symptoms of pathology

Full programme

- The physiology of the feto-neonatal transition
- The physiological newborn: the semiotics and the objective examination
- The path of the physiological newborn: from the delivery room to the rooming-in
- The practice of skin to skin: monitoring card and containment of clinical risk
- The placenta and the importance of its role for the development and health of the fetus and newborn
- Perinatal and connatural infections
- Group B-hemolytic beta-streptococcus infection
-The respiratory pathology of the newborn
-Ipoglicemia
- Neonatal jaundice
- ABO and RH incompatibility
-The preterm and late preterm baby
-The resuscitation of the full-term newborn
- Invasive and non-invasive positive pressure ventilation: interfaces and indications
- Chest compressions
-Farmaci
- Principles of bioethics
-The resuscitation of the preterm infant
- Cord blood, cord milking for the prevention of prematu

Bibliography

- GV Zuccotti, M. Giovannini Manuale di Pediatria,
La Pratica Clinica, Società Editrice Esculapio.
- N Principi, A Rubino, A Vierucci: Pediatria
generale e Specialistica, Casa Editrice Ambrosiana
- Lezioni.

Teaching methods

interactive frontal lessons with use of slides and videos

Assessment methods and criteria

interactive frontal lessons with use of slides and videos

Other information

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