- Docente: Matteo Rottoli
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/18
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Dietistic (cod. 8470)
Learning outcomes
The course will provide knowledge about the indications, the role, the mechanism of action, the technical details and the metabolic and anatomical outcomes of surgical procedures for the treatment of obesity
Course contents
The learning program include the following topics:
- rationale of surgical treatment for the morbid obesity and associated complications
- guidelines for the indication to the surgical treatment
- surgical techniques
- complications and outcomes of the different surgical treatments
- role of the multidisciplinary team in the preoperative assessment and followup
- role of the dietician in the evaluation and outpatient followup
Readings/Bibliography
Società italiana di chirurgia dell'obesità e malattie metaboliche (SICOB) guidelines, link
Teaching methods
frontal lessons. Possible observership during the multidisciplinary outpatient clinic
Assessment methods
Oral exam
Teaching tools
Slides and surgical videos
Office hours
See the website of Matteo Rottoli