- Docente: Alessandro Spadari
- Credits: 3
- SSD: VET/09
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: In-person learning (entirely or partially)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Veterinary Medicine (cod. 8206)
Learning outcomes
at the end of the course the students will know the right metodology in diagnostic and the ethiopathogenesis of the most common pathologies in horse. they will be able to suggest the best options in surgical treatment and the prognosis for the pathologies of surgical interest.
Course contents
Teching: Horse surgical clinics, pathology and therapy.
39 hours, 27 lectures, 12 (12x4)
The programme includes topics for lectures and practical part.
Lectures
1. Course presentation
2. Teeth
3. Paranasal sinuses
4. Pathogenesis of colics
5. Small intestine diseases
6. Large intestine diseases
7. Upper respiratory ways examination
8. Upper respiratory ways pathologies
9. Superficial skin wound
10. Castration
11. Osteoarthrosis
12. Osteochondrosis
13. Tendons
14. Laminitis
15. Navicolitis
16. Specific orthopaedic pathologies
17. Foot pathologies
18. Angular and flexural deformities in foals
19. Farriery
Practical
1. Anesthesiology
2. Endoscopy
3. Diagnostic anaesthesia
4. Radiology
5. Ultrasound
6. Diagnostic in colics
7. Farrieries
8. Clinical cases
Lectures
Introduction
Digestive system
Colic syndrome pathology and clinics
Specific Patholgies of digestive tracts
Locomotor system
Lamenes investigation and collateral exams
Developmental diseases
Long bone fractures
Tendons, synovial sheats, ligament diseases
Joint diseases
Podiatry
Farriery
Urogenital pathologies
Practical teaching
Lameness investigation
Colic syndrome investigation
Limb Radiology
ultrasound
Diagnostic anesthesia in lameness
Readings/Bibliography
- Stashak, La zoppicatura nei cavalli Saunders 2011
- Ross, Lameness in the horse Saunders 2nd ed. 2011
- Auer Stick Equine Surgery Lea Febiger 2012
Teaching methods
Lectures and practical teaching in four groups
Assessment methods
Assesment is unique for all the teachings of the integrated course with a written exam and a practical/oral part during the mandatory hours of the course
Teaching tools
Lectures interactive Practical teaching supported by informatic records of previous cases and clinical cases
Office hours
See the website of Alessandro Spadari