Medicine and surgery | University of Parma

Professor: Francesco NICOLINI
Academic discipline: Chirurgia cardiaca (MED/23)
Field: Clinica delle specialità medico-chirurgiche
Type of training activity: Characterising

10 hours
of face-to-face activities

1 credits

hub: PARMA

course unit
in ITALIAN

lectures timetable

exam calls

Integrated course unit module: GENERAL AND SPECIALIST SURGICAL CLINIC (ANNUAL) (PETSE)

Learning objectives

To learn the collection of the patient's clinical history, to perform a correct objective examination and to know main diagnostic methodologies and the indications to surgery

Prerequisites

Compulsory previous exams: Human Anatomy, General Pathology, Physiology, Respiratory and Cardiovascular diseases

Course unit content

Taking of medical history (also including aspects relative to cardiovascular disease; 2) Performing of objective examination and cardiac auscultation; 3) Pathophysiological mechanisms and consequent clinical aspects of the main clinical pictures of cardiac disease; 4) Modes and purposes of the main cardiological and cardiosurgical diagnostic and therapeutic methods

Full programme

Coronary artery disease
Complications of myocardial infarction
Aortic valve diseases
Mitral valve diseases
Aortic aneurysms
Aortic dissection
Endocarditis
Principles of extracorporeal circulation
Main congenital cardiac pathologies

Bibliography

Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine 20th ed. Chapters related to cardiac pathologies

Teaching methods

Oral lessons, examinations in cardiac surgery ward

Assessment methods and criteria

oral exam

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