23987 - Heart Surgery

Learning outcomes

By the end of the course the student should have got a basic knowledge of the most common surgical and interventional techniques for the frequent acquired and congenital Heart Disease treatment. Moreover students should got a good insight of risk benefits ratio and results of the main surgical procedures to better understand indications

Course contents

Coronary artery anatomy and coronary artery bypass graft

- Anatomy, pathophysiology and surgical treatment of aortic valve diseases

- Anatomy, pathophysiology and surgical treatment of mitral and tricuspid valve diseases

- Prosthetic valves

- Surgical treatment of congenital heart diseases

- Aortic dissection aortic trauma

- Heart transplantat

- Ventricular assistance

Readings/Bibliography

Suggested texbooks:

1) Kirklin/Barratt-Boyes Cardiac Surgery, 4th Edition - Saunders

2) Cardiac Surgery in the Adult fifth edition – Mc Graw Hi

Teaching methods

Lessons with slides and video

Opportunity to see the cardiac operations in operating room

Assessment methods

The final exam/final summative assessment will be an oral exam/assessment consisting of questions focusing on the educational objectives and topics of the integrated course of Thoracic and Vascular Diseases (I.C.)

Professors of the integrated courses participate in an overall collegial assessment of the student's final profit. The final summative assessment is expressed with a scale of grades from 18 to 30.

• The final assessment (final summative assessment) is passed with a collegial grade of a minimum 18/30
• Honors (cum laude) can be awarded in case of a final maximum collegial assessment (30/30)
• The credits of the Integrated Course of Thoracic and Vascular Diseases (14 CFU) are awarded with a collegial grade of a minimum 18/30

If it is necessary to appoint several subcommittees for the same final summative assessment, the student has the right to ask, in advance, not later than the beginning of the assessment, to be assessed also by the professor responsible of the discipline

The final summative assessment takes also into account the level of mastery of the key concepts illustrated in the classroom, critical thinking and the ability to integrate the key concepts and take-home messages of the different modules of the integrated course.

Failure to pass the exam may be due to insufficient knowledge of these concepts.

Teaching tools

Intraoperative videos, animations and slides

Office hours

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