Course Syllabus
Sustainable Development Goals
Aims
Provide concepts necessary for understanding pathophysiology, clinical presentation and treatment of the principal cardio - respiratory emergencies.
The course will focus on pathophysiology, clinical symptoms and signs of principal cardio -respiratory emergencies and principles of pharmacological and mechanical treatments.
Contents
The course will explain the most important clinical aspects and relative treatments of the following cardiac and respiratory emergencies:
1) Cardiocirculatory arrest
2) Cardiogenic Shock
3) Cardiac Tamponade
4) Acute Aortic Dissection
5) Pulmonary Embolism
6) Acute Respiratory Insufficiency
Detailed program
1) Causes of Cardiocirculatory arrest and treatment (BLS-D, ACLS, ECLS);
2) Definition and classification of Shocks’ types and focus on Cardiogenic Shock, pathophysiology, clinical presentation and treatment;
3) Obstructive shock: focus on the causes of Cardiac Tamponade, pathophysiology, clinical presentation and treatment;
4) Causes of Aortic dissection, classification, clinical presentation and medical treatment prior to surgery;
5) Causes of Pulmonary Embolism, acute cor pulmonale, pathophysiology, clinical presentation and treatment;
6) Causes of Acute Respiratory Insufficiency, clinical presentation and principles of treatment
Prerequisites
Basic knowledge of biology, biochemistry, cardiac, vascular and respiratory anatomy, cardiac and respiratory physiology and pathophysiology.
Teaching form
Frontal lessons in HPG23, with a theoretical and practical approach to the principal cardiorespiratory emergencies fronted in the program.
Textbook and teaching resource
Lessons' Powerpoint
Textbook:
- Harrison's Principle of Internal Medicine
- Braunwald's Heart Disease
- Marino The ICU Book
- Reviews and Articles on principal topics from Pubmed
Semester
First semester.
Assessment method
The Students' Assessment is divided in two parts.
A first part is composed of a written exam (in presence at HPG23) on the platform esamionline elearning: 50 questions with 5 multiple-choice for each and only one correct. Sufficiency for the access to Oral part: 30/50.
A second part: Oral with discussion of clinical cases on topics of the vertical track.
For the Oral part, The examination commission is composed with a rotation of all Physicians and Professors involved in the Vertical Track.
Office hours
on appointment by email
