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Teacher Pietro Cortelli
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Credits 1
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SSD MED/26
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Language Italian
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Campus of Bologna
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Degree Programme Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)
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Course Timetable from Jul 12, 2022 to Jul 12, 2022
SDGs
This teaching activity contributes to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals of the UN 2030 Agenda.
Academic Year 2021/2022
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
Alumni