- Docente: Luciano Pisoni
- Credits: 3
- SSD: VET/09
- Language: Italian
- Moduli: Luciano Pisoni (Modulo 1) Ombretta Capitani (Modulo 2)
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures (Modulo 1) Traditional lectures (Modulo 2)
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Veterinary Medicine (cod. 8617)
Course contents
Competences of a Veterinary surgeon includes ability to perform surgical operations following the rules of asepsis and having the skillness to do them. Goal of the course is giving to the student a specific preparation on instrumentation, suture material properties before knowing the details of the specific surgical techniques.
This course gives to the student the knowledge about basics of surgery (dieresis, exeresis, surgical environments and organization, instrumentation and its proper use, suture material and pattern. The most common surgeries in all the domestic species are explained
Readings/Bibliography
Slides on website http://campus.cib.unibo.it
Recommended readings:
Auer – Equine surgery 4th ed. Saunders 2012
Slatter – Small animal surgery, Saunders 2008
Fubini Ducharme – Large animal surgery Lea Febiger 2006
TOBIAS-JOHNSTON - Veterinary surgery: small animal. 2-volume set -Elsevier,2012
Kudnig and Séguin – Veterinary surgical oncology - Wiley-Blackwell 2012
T.W. Fossum – Chirurgia dei piccoli animali - Elsevier-Masson,2008Teaching methods
- academic (frontal) with a general part that includes the description of all the manouvres from the beginning to the end of a surgical intervention and a special part with the description of the most common surgical intervention encountered in the practice.
- practical (tutorial supervised or “hands on”)
Assessment methods
The evaluation of this course is included with the other of the Integrated Course n° 03811 Surgical semeiotics and pathology, anesthesiology and general surgery in a single vote.
The evaluation of this course is based on a written test, with 24 questions, open or multiple choice, on all the programme, the same of all the candidates of the day to check the notions, and an oral/practical test to verify the manual ability reached.
Office hours
See the website of Luciano Pisoni
See the website of Ombretta Capitani