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70994 - Eco-assisted Interventional Procedures in Internal Medicine and Hepato-Oncology

Academic Year 2020/2021

                
                        Docente:
                        Fabio Piscaglia
                    
                        Credits:
                        1
                    
                        SSD:
                        MED/09
                    
                        Language:
                        Italian
                    
                        Teaching Mode:
                        Traditional lectures
                        
                            Campus:
                            Bologna
                        
                            Corso:
                            Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in
                            Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)

                            Teaching resources on Virtuale

Learning outcomes

Students will become able to recognize a condition of normality or of gross abnormality in various upper abdominal disease, knowing how to approach the use of an ultrasound scanner. They will lear the principles, indications, modality of safe perfomance and expected outcomes of major ultrasound guided interventional procedures.

Course contents

Course 2020-2021:

"ULTRASONOGRAPHY, DOPPLER ULTRASOUND AND ULTRASOUND GUIDED INTERVENTIONAL PROCEDURES IN INTERNAL MEDICINE AND LIVER ONCOLOGY"

Prof. Fabio Piscaglia, Prof. Alessandro Granito

Course Dates 2020:

Monday 18 January(h 13-19)

Wednesday 20 January (h 13-19),

Thursday 27 January (h 14-19)

Wednesday 28 January (h 13-19)

For the detailed program (in Italian) see

https://www.unibo.it/sitoweb/fabio.piscaglia/didattica/programma/2019/315297

Location

Lectures: remote online via TEAMS

Attendance to the entire course is compulsory. The pass certificate will be released after passing of the final test and multiple choice quizzes at the end of the course.

Il the COVID situation does not allow the practical attedance this will be replaced by prerecorded and/or live demonstration of ultrasound exams. The teaching might also be moved entirely online, depending on the most recent recommendations at that time.

The programs is part of an integrated course of 3 intermingled teaching modules

The course will be entirely held in Italian

Please check the italian version for the program

Readings/Bibliography

There are several books about ultrasonography.

Two reported here are in Italian

Manuale Italiano di Ecografia Internistica, curatori Schiavone-Romano, Antonio Delfino Editore, Roma

Testo di ampio campo in tre volumi. Ecografia Clinica, curatori Busillacchi Rapaccini, Idelson Gnocchi Editore, Napoli

An online book in English (or single chapters) can be purchased from the EFSUMB website

http://www.efsumb.org/blog/ecb-2edition

For further learning the Webinars EFSUMB are recommended

http://www.efsumb.org/blog/webinar-archive-2

Teaching methods

1. Traditional lectures
2. Hands on practical training in small groups on ultrasound scanners with the opportunity to personally attempt to perform and ultrasonography under the supervision of tutors

Assessment methods

The assessment will be performed through a multiple choice test at the end of the course.

Teaching tools

The course will include traditional lectures with the use of computer and a videobeamer to project slides, but also an ultrasound scanner will be connected to project images during demonstrations.
Practical hand-on sessions are also planned during which the students will become acquainted with conventional ultrasound expoliting the opportunity to visualize organs in the abdomen and neck personally under the supervision of a tutor.

Office hours

See the website of Fabio Piscaglia