65631 - Emergency Medicine

Academic Year 2024/2025

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 9210)

Learning outcomes

Recognize conditions that require emergency care on the basis of patient examination and emergency device/laboratory data. Describe the procedures performed in an emergency in order to support life after the failure of one or more vital organs. Formulate an accurate differential diagnosis and propose first-line therapy appropriate to the patient's complaint. Propose a follow-up therapeutic strategy, and direct patients to the relevant specialized care provider. Present and critically analyze emergency clinical cases.

Course contents

Gastrointestinal bleeding

Syncope

Respiratory failure, pneumonia, COPD

Arterial bloood gas analysis

Deep vein thrombosis and pulmonary embolism

Metabolic comas

Epilepsy

Stroke

Chest pain and coronary syndrome

Anaphylaxys

Shock

Sepsis

Poisonings

Arrhytmias


Readings/Bibliography

Tintinalli's emergency medicine. A comprehensive study guide. 9th edition

Teaching methods

Lessons

Assessment methods

Oral examination with emergency medicine clinical cases discussion

Teaching tools

Clinical review

Office hours

See the website of Giovanni Marasco