99225 - Oncologia e cure palliative

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Moduli: Marco Cesare Maltoni (Modulo 1) Andrea De Giglio (Modulo 2)
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 5908)

Course contents

1. History and philosophy 2 Epidemiology 3. Organization 4. Models 5. Ethics 6. Legislation 7. Research 8. Personalized care: shared care planning. 9. Prognostic factors 10. Principles of remodulating objectives and treatments

1. Pain: diagnosis and therapy 2 Dyspnea 3. Cachexia and nutritional problems 4. Inoperable malignant intestinal obstruction 5. Constipation 6. Nausea and vomiting in advanced stages 7. Delirium 8. Refractory symptoms and palliative sedation

These basic principles can be preparatory to a personal motivation for future inclusion in palliative care programs and structures, also through knowledge of the new specialization school in "Medicine and Palliative Care"

Readings/Bibliography

Lectures and power point slides Italian Book Medicine and Palliative Care. Poletto, Milan, 2019

Teaching methods

Interactive frontal lessons

Clinical case discussions

Assessment methods

Multiple choice quiz as part of the exam module

Teaching tools

Power point Example clinical cases

Office hours

See the website of Marco Cesare Maltoni

See the website of Andrea De Giglio