- Docente: Giacomo Calini
- Credits: 2
- SSD: MED/18
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Podiatry (cod. 8479)
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from Oct 10, 2023 to Nov 22, 2023
Learning outcomes
Basic knowledge of diseases cured with surgical operation both elective and emergency.
Course contents
- Presentation and introduction of the program. Rationale of the General Surgery course, intersection points between General Surgery and Podiatry.
- Total and partial onychectomy (Indications, techniques, postoperative treatment, complications)
- Lower limb ulcers (diagnosis, treatment, prevention): Venous, Arterial, Neuropathic/Diabetic.
- Wounds and foot trauma. First aid (bleeding, foot skin wounds, subungual hematoma, nail avulsion or laceration).
- Colonic diverticulosis and divertricular disease (acute diverticulitis, SCAD, SUDD)
- Acute appendicitis: diagnosis, treatments.
- Lithiasis pathologies of the gallbladder: Cholecystitis, Biliary Colic, Acute pancreatitis, biliary ileus...
- Nail matrix transplant
Teaching methods
Frontal lessons
Assessment methods
At the end of the course the student will have to know the main characteristics of the pathologies treated in class.
ASSESSMENT METHOD: Open-ended written exam
Teaching tools
Power point presentations
Office hours
See the website of Giacomo Calini