Endocrine and Metabolic Emergencies 2021/2022

Academic Year 2021/2022

Learning outcomes

At the end of the course, the student will be able to: a- Provide a theoretical basis of knowledge of the main fields of emergencies in pediatrics b- Acquire technical skills through interactive teaching of exemplary clinical cases that allow to recognize the therapeutic diagnostic paths related to more frequent emergency pathological conditions in developmental age. c- Quickly recognize and autonomously assess, even in terms of differential diagnosis, an urgency among the most frequent in the child population, d- Choose the instrumental and haematochemical investigations useful for the diagnosis and quantification of the seriousness of the disease in progress by interpreting the results, and- Decide the acute therapy (also applying ad hoc protocols), giving priority to the treatment of symptoms expressed by the impairment of the main vital parameters, f- Manage the small patient in the short term: for eventual referral to hospital `urgency (urgency on the territory) or, in the hospital setting to decide for discharge, OBI, hospitalization in wards of Emergency Pediatrics, Reanimation and / or Pediatric Specialists 5- Communicate with the parental couple and the little patient taking into account the psychological aspects- emotions of urgency.

Course contents

Characteristics of type I diabetes in childhood and adolescence. The pathophysiology of diabetic ketoacidosis and its treatment.

Thyrotoxicosis in neonatal and early childhood: clinical features, etipatogenesis and treatment of the acute initial phase.

Hereditary metabolic diseases: characteristics, etiopathogenesis and treatment of the phase of metabolic decompensation.

Congenital adrenal hyperplasia: classification, approach to the treatment of the initial phase of acute decompensation due to salt loss

Readings/Bibliography

Reviews on the topics indicated during the lessons.

Teaching methods

Lectures. Presentation of clinical cases.

Assessment methods

Multiple choice questionnaire

The test involves a suitability

Teaching tools

Slides.

Office hours

See the website of Alessandra Cassio

91635 - Endocrine and Metabolic Emergencies

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