72188 - Reahabilitation of Acquired Deficit in Patient with Severe Head Trauma

Academic Year 2018/2019

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Speech and Language Therapy (cod. 8478)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student knows:-The basics and general principles of rehabilitation in the patient with head-brain trauma; -Scales of assessment in severe brain cranial trauma; -Treatment of dysphagia in severe cranial-brain trauma; -The treatment of cognitive-behavioral and communicative-linguistic disorders in severe cranial-brain trauma. It is also able to:-Perform cognitive-behavioural framing of the patient with head-brain trauma; -Perform a morphodynamics evaluation of the Deglutitoria chain in the patient with cranial-brain trauma; -to plan the rehabilitation intervention both for the dysphagia symptom and for the cognitive-communicative-linguistic deficits identified in the different rehabilitation phases (acute-subacute-chronic); -Discuss clinical cases in patients subjected to a standardized testistica evaluation of cognitive-communicative-linguistic functions.

Course contents

The course aims to present and acquire theoretical/practical knowledge and skills related to the patient with brain trauma.
Educational program:
1 ° The Cranial traumatized patient: general aspects of care, definitions and epidemiology.
2 ° classifications and clinical framing in the TEC-in the acute phase
-In the post-lesion evolutionary phases
-Clinical and functional frameworks: evolution and recovery, associated damage and complications.
3 ° Acute, post-acute and in the results: final and methodical procedures.
4 ° logopaedic Counselling in the patient with TCE
-Neuropsychology of head trauma: from mild trauma to severe frontal syndromes
-Neuropsychological rehabilitation and counseling logopaedic in the traumatized cranial

Readings/Bibliography

P. Boldrini, N. Basaglia, La riabilitazione del grave traumatizzato cranio-encefalico, Masson, 1994.

A. Mazzucchi, La riabilitazione neuropsicologica dei traumatizzati cranici, Masson, 1995.

A. Mazzucchi, La riabilitazione neurospicoligica. Premesse teoriche e applicazioni cliniche, Masson, 1999.

A. Mazzucchi, La riabilitazione delle amnesie, Masson 1999.

N. BASAGLIA, “Trattato di Medicina Riabilitativa. Medicina fisica e riabilitazione”, Idelson-Gnocchi Ed., 2000.

“Buona pratica clinica nella riabilitazione ospedaliera delle persone con gravi cerebrolesioni acquisite”, Giornale Italiano di medicina Riabilitativa, vol 25, N 5, ottobre 2011.

"Tracheostomia e disfagia nel grave cerebroleso. Scegliere, valutare e riabilitare" (Cristina Reverberi e Francesco Lombardi)

Teaching methods

Lectures on the contents of the educational program, practical exercises and role playing.

Assessment methods

The evaluation will be carried out with oral test

Teaching tools

Clinical cases .

Office hours

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