01133 - Neonatal Pathology

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Midwifery (cod. 9201)

Course contents

Overview on the main neonatal pathological conditions:

  • Newborn classification
  • Neonatal adaptation to extrauterine life
  • APGAR score
  • Neonatal asphyxia and IIE
  • Cardiovascular assessment. Congenital heart disease
  • Respiratory assessment. Neonatal respiratory diseases: transient tachypnoea, RDS, meconium aspiration syndrome, pulmonary hypertension, chronic lung disease
  • Neurological assessment. Perinatal asphyxia. Perinatal traumatic injury.
  • Hyperbilirubinemia. Hemolytic diseases
  • Preterm infants - specific diseases: intraventricular haemorrhage, necrotizing enterocolitis, retinopathy of prematurirt. Short and long-term clinical outcome
  • Infant feeding and human milk
  • Vaccination
  • Neonatal sepsis and meningitis

 

 

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