- Docente: Elisa Orsi
- Credits: 1
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Midwifery (cod. 9201)
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from Mar 05, 2025 to Apr 11, 2025
Learning outcomes
At the end of the module, the student has the knowledge and ability to understand the instrumental methods of pregnancy control and fetal well-being.
Course contents
- Basic principles of ultrasound
- Ultrasound equipment: type, method of use, adjustment of the equipment, sound and characteristics, the phenomenon of echo.
- Approach to the patient.
- Eco office and the role of the midwife: competence, responsibility and autonomy in the practice of the Ultrasound Office in pregnancy
- Legislation with reference to the "eco office".
- Ultrasound in the first trimester: visualize the gestational sac, the embryo, the number and activity of the heart, the date of pregnancy.
- Ultrasound in the second and third trimester of pregnancy: Evaluation of amniotic fluid, evaluation of the placenta, location and characteristics
- Ultrasound in twin pregnancy
- Ultrasound in the delivery room
Readings/Bibliography
SIEOG Guidelines 2021
Teaching methods
- Lectures and possible video projections
- Individual practical exercises with ultrasound
Assessment methods
production of a short written assigment the topics covered
Teaching tools
- Powepoint presentation
- Video projection
Office hours
See the website of Elisa Orsi