- Docente: Pietro Cortelli
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/26
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
Course contents
Clinical Evaluation of autonomic Functions
Transient loss of consciousness: epidemiology, classification.
Reflex syncope.
Central nervous sytem disorders with dysautonomia. ANS & sleep
interactions.
Diagnosis and treatment of supine hypertension and orthostatic
hypotension
Physiopathology and clinic of autonomic nervous system
disorders
I session: prof Roberto Amici
II session: prof Pietro Cortelli
III session: nociception and ANS interactions - dr.ssa Giulia
Pierangeli
Readings/Bibliography
Primer on the autonomic nervous system. Third edition. Ed in chief
David Robertson
Academic Press 2012
Teaching methods
Lectures, clinical case presentations, comments on sessions with
discussion panels, hands-on sessionson human ANS disorders
Assessment methods
The final examination with a multiple choices questionnaire,
evaluates the degree of understanding of the main learning targets
of the course:
-knowledge the physiopathology of the main autonomic
disorders
-knowledge the main treatment of autonomic disorders in the light
of the specific physiopathology
Teaching tools
Lectures, clinical case presentations, comments on sessions with discussion panels, hands-on sessionson autonomic human disorders
Office hours
See the website of Pietro Cortelli
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.