NEUROLOGY
cod. 20256

Academic year 2011/12
6° year of course - Second semester
Professor
Academic discipline
Neurologia (MED/26)
Field
Discipline neurologiche
Type of training activity
Characterising
4 hours
of face-to-face activities
0.5 credits
hub: -
course unit
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Integrated course unit module: MEDICAL-SURGICAL EMERGENCIES

Learning objectives

The course is aimed at providing students with notions about how to recognize and treat clinical emergencies and urgencies of neurological interest. In particular, students will acquire decision-making and operating skills that will enable them to promptly establish a diagnosis and manage treatment for the most common neurological emergencies/urgencies.

Prerequisites

the same of the integrated course

Course unit content

Head and spinal injury management, Acute intracranial hypertension,Coma evaluation and classification, Cerebral and subarachnoid haemorrhaging, Myasthenic crisis, ER headache management

Full programme

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Bibliography

Allan H. Ropper, Robert H. Brown. Adams &
Victor Principi di Neurologia. 8^ ediz. Casa Editrice MC Graw-Hill

Teaching methods

Up-front classes

Assessment methods and criteria

oral examination

Other information

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