21335 - Cardiovascular Apparatus Diseases

Academic Year 2017/2018

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 8473)

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course the student should be able to:

  • describe and distinguish the major cardiovascular diseases.
  • describe and define the essentials of epidemiology, pathogenesis, classification, clinical aspect, laboratory tests, non-invasive and invasive testing of cardiovascular diseases.
  • define differential diagnosis and therapy of major cardiovascular diseases.
  • define an integrative cardiac care approach and nurse's role in (a) patient education and counseling for primary and secondary prevention; (b) management of acute disease, chronic disease and long-term follow-up of patients with cardiovascular diseases.

Course contents

  • Semiotics of cardiovascular system.
  • Cardiovascular risk factors: Traditional risk factors  (lipid disorders, hypertension, diabetes mellitus, smoking); Novel and emerging risk factors.
  • Primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular diseases.
  • Diagnostic tests performed in cardiology (resting  ECG, exercise stress tests, Holter monitoring, echocardiography, nuclear imaging cardiology tests, cardiac CT, cardiac MRI).
  • Compressive overview of chest pain causes
  • Chronic ischemic heart disease: pathophysiology, diagnosis and therapeutic strategies.
  • Acute coronary syndromes: pathophysiology, diagnosis, and principles of therapy. Pre-hospital management. Nurses' role in the management of patients with acute coronary syndromes. 
  • Arrhythmias: classification and pathophysiology. Diagnosis and management of arrhythmias. 
  • Heart failure: etiology, pathophysiology, diagnosis, and principles of management of chronic and acute heart failure. 
  • Valvular heart disease: etiology, pathophysiology,  diagnosis and general principles of medical and surgical treatment.
  • Pericardial disease.
  • Infective endocarditis.

Readings/Bibliography

  • Medicina Interna Sistematica. C. Ruggarli, latest edition.
  • Updated teaching material, will also be made available also through username and password at AMS-AlmaDL Campus - University of Bologna.

Teaching methods

Slides presentation supported lectures with discussion breaks

Assessment methods

The final exam will be a multiple-choice exam consisting of multiple choice questions on the obligatory readings (books and lecture notes).

Teaching tools

Teaching resources and material: teaching material presented in class will be made available online at AMS Campus-AlmaDL -University of Bologna

 

Office hours

See the website of Raffaele Bugiardini