Medicine and surgery | University of Parma

Professor: - Marco BACIARELLO
Academic discipline: Anestesiologia (MED/41)
Field: Emergenze medico-chirurgiche
Type of training activity: Characterising

10 hours
of face-to-face activities

1 credits

hub: -

course unit
in ITALIAN

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Integrated course unit module: EMERGENCY AND FIRST-AID MEDICINE

Learning objectives

- Understanding how chronic pain develops.
- Examination of patients with chronic pain.
- Knowledge of common painful conditions
- Initial treatment and knowledge of referral possibilities.

Prerequisites

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Course unit content

Pathophysiology of acute and chronic pain. Diagnosis and specialist treatment of common painful conditions.
Drugs used to treat acute and chronic pain.

Full programme

- Transduction and conduction of pain stimuli in the nervous system
- Pathophysiology of neuropathic pain
- Common painful states: low back pain, radiculopathy, arthritis
- Clinical pharmacology of analgesics and adjuvants: antiinflammatory drugs, opioids, antidepressants, anticonvulsants etc.

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Assessment methods and criteria

Questions during the integrated course examination.

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