57179 - General and Specialised Paediatrics (AK-D)

Academic Year 2023/2024

  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Single cycle degree programme (LMCU) in Medicine and Surgery (cod. 8415)

Course contents

Neonatal classification. Neonatal adaptation. Clinical examination of the healthy newborn. Congenital heart disease. Neonatal respiratory diseases (TTN, RDS, meconium aspiration syndrome, pulmonary hypertension, bronchopulmonary dysplasia). Perinatal asphyxia. Traumatic brain injury at birth. Neonatal jaundice. Diseases of the preterm infant: IVH, NEC, ROP. Short and long term clinical outcome of preterm infants. Infant feeding and human milk. Vaccines. Neonatal sepsis and meningitis.

Readings/Bibliography

Essentials of Pediatrics. Nelson

Assessment methods

Oral examination

Teaching tools

PPT presentation

Office hours

See the website of Arianna Aceti