- Docente: Michelangelo La Placa
- Credits: 1
- SSD: MED/35
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Rimini
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Nursing (cod. 8475)
Learning outcomes
The student at the end of the course acquires basic knowledge on burns, their pathophysiology, the different types of burns and their management.
Course contents
Burns: classification
Burn disease
Burn managing (inpatient admission or outpatient admission)
Algorithm of treatment of burn patient
Burn Unit: organisation
Nurse role in a burn patient
Wound management
Negative pressure therapy
Recent rigenerative medication in burns
Readings/Bibliography
G. Caminati, A. Peghetti. "Le ferite acute". Mac Graw Hill 2012
Pippione - Alaibac - Argenziano - Bongiorno - Calvieri Dermatologia e malattie sessualmente trasmissibili AAVV 2019
Calosso A. Le lesioni cutanee. Ed. Carrocci Faber 2004
Giudelines:
American College of Surgeons “ATLS® Advanced Trauma Life Support “ 2008; 9: 225-240
American Burn Association (ABA) “Guidelines for the operation of burn centre” Resources for optimal care of the injured patient 2006 ; 14: 80-86
American Burn Association (ABA) “White paper- Surgical management of the burn wound and use of skin substitutes 2009; 1-50
Teaching methods
Lessons
Assessment methods
Written exam
Teaching tools
Power Point slides
Office hours
See the website of Michelangelo La Placa