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21335 - Cardiovascular Apparatus Diseases

Academic Year 2015/2016

At the end of the course the student should be able to:

describe and distinguish the major cardiovascular diseases.
describe and define the essentials of epidemiology, pathogenesis, classification, clinical, laboratory tests, non-invasive and invasive testing of cardiovascular diseases.
define differential diagnosis and therapy of major cardiovascular diseases.
define an integrative cardiac care approach and nurse's role in: (a) patient education and counseling for primary and secondary prevention; (b) management of acute disease, chronic disease and long term follow-up of patients with cardiovascular disease.

Semiotics of cardiovascular system.
Cardiovascular risk factors: lipid disorders, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, smoking.
Primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases.
Electrocardiography.
Diagnostic tests performed in cardiology. Nursing implications for cardiac diagnostic tests (resting ECG, exercise stress tests, Holter monitoring, echocardiography, nuclear cardiology tests, cardiac CT, cardiac MRI).
Compressive overview of chest pain causes
Chronic ischemic heart disease: pathophysiology, diagnosis and therapeutic strategies.
Acute coronary syndromes: pathophysiology and diagnosis. Nurses' role in the management of patients with acute coronary syndromes. Nurses' role in the Catheterization Laboratory.
Arrhythmias: classification and pathophysiology. Diagnosis and management of arrhythmias. Nurses' role during and after implantation of pacemaker and other cardiac devices.
Heart failure: etiology, pathophysiology and diagnosis of chronic and acute heart failure. Nurses' role in the management of patients with chronic heart failure.
Valvular heart disease: etiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis and general principles of medical and surgical treatment.
Emergency cardiac care: the role of nurses in providing emergency cardiac care.
Pericardial disease.
Infective endocarditis.
Cardiomyopathies.
Congenital heart disease.
Nurse's role in long term management.

Medicina Interna Sistematica. C. Ruggarli, latest edition.
Updated teaching material, will made available also through username and password at AMS-AlmaDL Campus - University of Bologna.

Slides presentation supported lectures with discussion breaks

The final exam will be a multiple-choice exam consisting of multiple choice questions on the obligatory readings (books and lecture notes).

Teaching resources and material: teaching material presented in class will be made available online at AMS Campus-AlmaDL -University of Bologna