- Docente: Gianluigi Pilu
- Credits: 2
- SSD: MED/40
- Language: Italian
- Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
- Campus: Bologna
- Corso: First cycle degree programme (L) in Midwifery (cod. 9201)
Learning outcomes
At the end of the learning module the student will understand and will be able to apply in a clinical context: the diagnostic techniques, the methodology and the technology required to assess and manage the parturition process and the puerperium
Course contents
General principles of biostatistics; maternal and feto-maternal adverse events in the developed countries and in a global context; dating pregnancy, the processes of labor and delivery and puerperium; the complications of the parturition process including malpositions and malpresentations, dystocia, fetal hypoxia, perineal lesions; diagnosis and management of labor and delivery; fetal surveillance; operative deliveries; induction of labor
Readings/Bibliography
Spandrio R, Regalia A, Bestetti G: Fisiologia della Nascita. Dai prodromi al post-partum. Carocci Faber, Roma, 2014
Teaching methods
Lectures supllied by visual demonstrations, exercise on clinical simulators
Assessment methods
written exam
Teaching tools
slides and other material avilable on campus
Links to further information
Office hours
See the website of Gianluigi Pilu