Academic Year 2017/2018
- Docente: Laura Mazzanti
- Credits: 2
- SSD: MED/38
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Physiotherapy (cod. 8476)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the course the student will have basic knowledge and ability to recognize the most common pathological disorders of the child. He will acquire knowledge about problems of the premature baby, the newborn baby at risk.
Course contents
The newborn: physiology and adapting to postnatal life.
Premature newborn: physiology and clinical
complications
Obstetric brachial
plexus injury
Growth: growth regulation factors , anthropometry, body
proportions, shape and size of the skull;
Growth disorders: clinical features, etiology and therapy;
short stature and endocrine
aspects: hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid and IGF1 axis.
Short stature
without endocrine causes.
Gigantism
Puberty:
physiology and pathology.
Obesity
Genetic diseases and congenital malformations: dysmorphology
and rehabilitation physiotherapy.
Respiratory system: Delineation of the signs and symptoms common to
the dysfunction of the cardio-circulatory and respiratory systems
and the interactions of the main diseases susceptible to
respiratory rehabilitation.
In particular: Inflammation of the upper respiratory, pneumonia and
bronchopneumonia, cystic fibrosis, asthma.
Exanthematous diseases: the major infectious diseases, and
complications, vaccinations and complications.
Neonatal
screenings.
Rheumatic disease: major medical diagnostic procedures: clinical
aspects, laboratory tests, radiological investigations.
Neuro-muscular diseases with detection of the signs and prognosis
of progressive muscular dystrophy, congenital myopathies, spinal
muscular atrophy and myasthenia gravis.
Readings/Bibliography
F. Zappulla – Pediatria Generale e Specialistica - Edizioni Esculapio
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons with slides
Office hours
See the website of Laura Mazzanti