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Università degli Studi di Parma Università degli Studi di Parma
Health professions degree in
Midwifery
Università degli Studi di Parma
Department of Medicine and Surgery

PEDIATRICS
cod. 01104

Academic year 2024/25
3° year of course - First semester
Professor responsible for the course unit
PERRONE Serafina
integrated course unit
5 credits
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Learning objectives

This course will enable the student to know and understand the tools for the diagnosis and therapy of the main diseases of the neonatal age and the first years of life.

Prerequisites

Pathophysiology of pregnancy

Course unit content

Physical examination of healthy term newborn.
Diagnostic-therapeutic framework for pathologies in the newborn infant

Full programme

-The term newborn: primary care.
The newborn with clinical signs of pathology
The preterm infant: influence of gestational age and birth weight
Respiratory distress and respiratory failure - Mechanical ventilation and non-invasive ventilation
- Neonatal sepsis
- Feeding of preterm babies, enteral and parenteral nutrition
- Necrotizing enterocolitis
- Bronchopulmanary dysplasia
- intraventricular hemorrhage
- renal failure
- retinopathy of prematurity
- surgical newborns and transfusions with blood components

Bibliography

Principi N, Rubino A. Pediatria generale e specialistica. Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, 2017.
- Slides on Elly platform.

Teaching methods

The activities will take place lessons will be held in asynchronous mode (uploaded on the Elly page of the course).

Assessment methods and criteria

If due to the persistence of the health emergency it is necessary to carry out the exams remotely, the final test will consist of an oral question conducted remotely (via Teams) in synchronous mode with questions on teaching topics.

Other information

The professor can be contacted for clarification or to make an appointment via email. There will be no intermediate evaluations. The student will have to demonstrate his degree of learning on the final exam.