Teaching code

4S000100

Credits

8

Coordinator

Martina Debiasi

Language

Italian

Moodle Seminars 0

The teaching is organized as follows:

Program

Internal Medicine - MED / 09
High blood pressure: risk factors, treatment, early complications e late.
Chronic heart failure: signs and symptoms, clinical situations and evolution, drug treatment, diet and physical activity. Complications and factors of severity e prognostics.
Anemias, lymphomas and leukemias.
Rheumatological diseases: main pictures and symptoms
Hemorrhagic and thrombotic diseases: main clinical situations and hints of therapy.

Cardiovascular Diseases - MED / 11
Risk factors for cardiovascular disease, dyslipidemia with a gender perspective
Ischemic heart disease: Angina and acute myocardial infarction (AMI).
Manifestations and diagnoses with particular attention to population, sex and gender differences
Interventional cardiology for acute coronary syndrome.
Major cardiac arrhythmias.
Main pharmacological treatments in the cardiology field (antiplatelet agents, oral anticoagulants, β-blockers, antianginal, thrombolytic, digitalis, antiarrhythmic).

Pneumology - MED / 10
COPD (chronic bronchitis and emphysema): prevention, symptoms and severity indices, management of exacerbations and respiratory rehabilitation.
Long-term oxygen therapy (OTLT) and non-invasive ventilatory support.
Acute asthma.

Medical Oncology - MED / 06
Cancer biology: main theories / knowledge on the nature and etiology of cancer and risk factors.
Staging and prognostic factors: significance of staging and prognosis of the neoplastic disease and implications in the approach to the patient.
Principles of cancer therapy: therapeutic integration strategies.
Medical cancer therapy: chemotherapy drugs, hormone therapy, biological response modifiers (immunotherapy) new drugs and new therapeutic modalities.

Infectious Diseases - MED / 17
Sepsis, HIV infection, Viral hepatitis, meningitis, tuberculosis.
Infections transmitted by air.
Nosocomial infections and their prevention.
The prevention and post-exposure prophylaxis of infections transmitted by blood and air (in particular HIV, hepatitis, TB).
SARS-CoV-2
Gastroenteritis.

Clinical Medical Nursing - MED / 45
Night care and noise: peculiarities in the evaluation and observation of patients during the night, surveillance, problems that more easily manifest themselves during the night.
Care management of the patient with ischemic heart disease and heart failure, COPD and bronchial asthma
Patient and family assessment
Interventions to develop self-care behaviors and prevention of exacerbations
Territorial care management of the main problems in the initial stages of exacerbation
Acute event severity indicators and management protocol
Management of thermoregulation alterations
Impact and burden of the cluster of symptoms in the advanced stages of the disease / end of life
The family and network of local services that can be activated in the care pathway
Complex interventions related to the priority situations / problems treated
Assist and train the person with long-term OTLT.
- bed rest as a therapeutic prescription and early mobilization
- fluid balance, weight, impedance: validity, reliability and clinical significance
- assessment and first approach to chest pain
- use of the plan chart

Bibliography

Examination Methods

Written exam and possible discussion