80363 - MALATTIE INFETTIVE

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Ravenna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 5908)

Learning outcomes

Describe the clinical manifestations, etiology, epidemiology, risk factors, natural history, diagnosis, staging, prognostic indicators and management of the major infectious diseases, with emphasis on those most commonly encountered in the clinical practice.

Course contents

Epidemiology of infectious diseases

Lower respiratory tract infections

Hospital-acquired infections

Viral hepatitis

Bloodstream infections and endocarditis

Viral and bacterial meningitis

Sepsis and septic shock

HIV and AIDS

Tuberculosis

Readings/Bibliography

Infectious Diseases Chapter-Harrison

Teaching methods

Frontal lessons supported by power point presentations

Assessment methods

Written questions with multiple choices.

Teaching tools

Power point slides will be provided to the students.

Office hours

See the website of Matteo Rinaldi